Sentence examples for unorthodox tactic from inspiring English sources

He tells me of a fairly unorthodox tactic used by two extremely successful friends of theirs, who have been together for decades and are raising kids.

When he made a bid for the White House in 1995, he denounced the Christian right as an extremist "fringe" — an unorthodox tactic for a candidate trying to win votes in a Republican primary.

(General Petraeus as a new commander in 2007, to a bright young major using a highly unorthodox tactic to get results: "One, don't let our Army stop you. Two, don't let the Iraqi government stop you. Solve the problem").

For a while I employed the unorthodox tactic of challenging him to an arm-wrestle whenever we met; he would always accept with bravado, but never actually did it.

The pair fought out a close battle at the world championships in Melbourne, with Kenny adopting the unorthodox tactic of going for a long sprint when a match down in the final, in the hope of tiring the Frenchman.

Their complaints include the lack of strong independent directors to challenge Ashley, his unorthodox tactic of using Sports Direct funds to take stakes in other retailers and efforts by the company to award further shares to the billionaire in return for the company hitting financial targets.

Yet he was not beyond invoking unorthodox tactics to achieve his aims.

No wonder White is deploying unorthodox tactics instead of relying on backroom chats in Brussels.

They used unorthodox tactics to attract the crowd -- light shows, lasers and rock music.

But Labour, too, seems to be adopting some unorthodox tactics in the effort to keep the Conservatives out of power.

In the 1990s, gardeners and their allies became known for using unorthodox tactics to rally support for their cause.