Sentence examples for uncommon tactic from inspiring English sources
To build the sales force, Insys hired a number of notably attractive people in their 20s and 30s, mostly women — not an uncommon tactic in the industry.
By taking the uncommon tactic of switching communicators in the heat of battle, that's sort of what the reinsurer Validus Holdings is trying with its hostile bid for its $3.2 billion rival, Transatlantic Holdings.
Like Kenneth L. Lay, the former chairman of the Enron Corporation, Mr. Kozlowski and Mr. Swartz used an uncommon tactic to reduce their Tyco positions, returning their shares directly to the company instead of selling them on the open market.
"Lawyers producing way more documents than are absolutely necessary, in order to force the other side to spend lots of time going through them, sad to say, is not an uncommon tactic.
Federal agents trying to stop the black Infiniti speeding between the White House and the U.S. Capitol fired seven shots at its unarmed driver, who had a toddler in the car with her, an uncommon tactic that occurred during a highly unusual chase.
"It's a hollow threat… a not uncommon tactic in South Africa," he said.
As part of his legendary coaching, Jackson used some rather uncommon tactics to help create these championship teams -- tactics he shared with Oprah during an interview for "Super Soul Sunday".
That is a legal and not-uncommon tactic in complex cases like the anthrax inquiry, in which investigators have exhausted obvious leads and are trying to narrow the field of people who might have been involved.
But Democratic leaders are upset that Coburn last week used an uncommon procedural tactic to force a test vote on ending the credit for blending ethanol into gasoline and on repealing the ethanol import tariff.
(Spreading such rumors has become a not-uncommon political tactic in a country where homosexuality remains illegal).
In the video, Jackson also explains two other mind-body practices that didn't quite work with his teams and reveals how both the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers responded to his relatively uncommon coaching tactics.
