Sentence examples for tactics with a from inspiring English sources

Legalistic and argumentative, Mr. Ickes is a man of tough manner and tough tactics with a notoriously dramatic temper, though one he orchestrates to calculated effect.

But he said that he watched Mr. Gibson's promotional tactics "with a vague sense of embarrassment" because he believed the movie deserved better.

Meanwhile the party is attracting interest around Europe, travelling to Austria, France and Ireland to explain its tactics, with a trip to Frankfurt next.

It also employed a version of long ball tactics, with a defender often lobbing the ball high nearly the length of the field to try to catch a running loose attacker.

Its staff are getting into the spirit of things, embarking upon guerilla marketing tactics with a town crier shouting Barclays' wares and bikes decked out in the bank's corporate blue zipping up and down the street.

The "left hook" flanking maneuver executed by U.S. Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf during the Persian Gulf War also utilized elements of blitzkrieg tactics, with a combined arms offensive that destroyed the Iraqi army in Kuwait in a period of just three days.

He blends an outer-borough politician's mastery of hardball tactics with an evangelical zeal that can wear down cynics.

MoveOn-type activists who may have previously been content with a potluck and a petition campaign are now taking a look at more radical tactics with an open mind: Maybe Greenpeace, which long favored confrontational tactics years before Occupy, is on to something, they say.

Here's the problem: Republican (and some Democratic) policymakers, along with supposedly "outside the box" military commanders, confused new tactics with an effective strategy, which, in the wake of the disastrous decision to invade, may have been a contradiction in terms.

North's one-club opening was strong and artificial, and East passed, the usual tactic with a strong balanced hand.

Most columns usually give a position and invite readers to come up with the winning move - typically, a big tactic with a series of forcing moves.