Sentence examples for understandable tactic from inspiring English sources

And he is not prepared to rule out torture as a response: he says that torture would have been an "understandable" tactic if American security forces had had someone in custody on Sept. 11 who knew which buildings were targets.

While their concerns might be understandable, their tactics were not.

The sight of Sterling being used as Liverpool's lone striker was understandable as a tactic to target United's vulnerable rearguard.

Commercially the tactic is understandable.

It did not help the match as a spectacle but the tactic was understandable.

This tactic is understandable.

That is understandable as an advocacy tactic.

Their use of such tactics is understandable, if not condonable.

Nonetheless, he was reprimanded by the American Anthropological Association, though the reprimand was later overturned after a members' vote.Mr Chagnon's understandable bitterness at such tactics shows in this book, which has an oddly uneven tone.

The tactics were understandable – repeated targeted strikes at key individuals to keep al-Qaida off balance – but our strategy was based on just that: "our" understanding of "them", rather than "their" understanding of "us" Thirteen years later, al-Qaida central is an organization on the decline – there have been undeniable successes – but the so-called Islamic State (Isis) is on the rise.

True, we are seeing a renewed focus on "survival tactics", an understandable pressure to preserve jobs and growth and a resurgence of the view that sustainability is a 'point-issue', more likely to be a cost to be cut rather than an opportunity to be seized.