Sentence examples for the former tactic from inspiring English sources

In some rare cases the former tactic works but it hasn't worked in a long while.

Generally, populations in the southern portion of the range exhibit the former tactic, and populations in the northern portion exhibit the latter tactic (Healey 1991).

The Real IRA, which has a small but active unit in Derry, has adopted the former tactics of the Provisional IRA, which used so-called punishment shootings to build up support and sympathy within communities where the police did not traditionally operate.

The former tactics of the Metropolitan Police's special demonstration squad in stealing the identities of dead children has also caused uproar.

The NYU-Stanford report also touches on a truly disturbing issue: the alleged targeting of rescuers and funerals, the former a tactic that - as the Guardian's Glenn Greenwald virtually alone has addressed- had been cited by the US' Homeland Security Unit in the past as a hallmark of terrorist practices.

Veterans of Gamaa al-Islamiya, the ultraconservative Islamist group that waged a terrorist campaign in Egypt two decades ago and later renounced violence, said that since the military takeover they had been warning angry jihadis to shun their group's former tactics.

Mr. Mason does not quite repudiate his former tactics.

Some feared this might lead them to derail Nepal's frail peace process, by organising countrywide strikes, or even by returning to war.The Maoists' tentative triumph certainly owes something to their former tactics.

Even by the standards of business practices in the former Soviet Union, these tactics appeared blunt.

"It was common knowledge that commanders in the field used searching for Bergdahl as a justification for more aggressive tactics," the former Defense Department official says.

But it is a fair account of the wrangling that has led to Romania's referendum this weekend on the impeachment of the president, Traian Basescu.Even Mr Basescu's closest supporters find it hard to praise the former sea-captain's tactics.