He added that "if you want to look at unpleasant tactics, in terms of street campaigning, and outright, naked unpleasantness of a national/racial nature", then "you only have to see what was said to me when I was surrounded by a group of thugs in a street in Edinburgh".
Therefore, extreme and unpleasant tactics may be necessary to do what needs to be done.
After she's gone, the audience members propose a few unpleasant tactics for the interviewer to use.
Debt collectors have been adopting increasingly unpleasant tactics, according to a recent report from the market research firm Marketdata Enterprises.
With a wide remit to examine all aspects of the industry, the inquiry revealed not just unpleasant tabloid tactics but the cosy relationship between Britain's top politicians, newspaper executives and senior police officers.
Even with a relatively good-value deal there is the worry that when you arrive the desk will have closed for the evening, or run out of cars or given yours to someone else etc, or you will be subjected to unpleasant hard-sell tactics.
Doesn't the drive to remove links-even to potentially unpleasant information-smack of the tactic we revile when practiced by the Chinese government?
Polls over the summer put Mr Christie's approval rating at 47%, Mr Walker's at 45%, Mr Kasich's at 36% and Mr Scott's at 35%—especially dismal numbers for the three who have been in office for less than a year.It is a standard tactic to get unpleasant tasks out of the way at the beginning of a four-year term, in the hope that anger will have faded by election time.
Critics have pointed out that Osbourne's disciplinary tactics - threatening to tell one unpleasant contestant to "pack your bags and fuck off home" and asking another, "Do you really think you can get one over on me?
Learning to put obnoxious friends in time outs right at the beginning of unpleasant behavior can make it unnecessary to use tougher tactics at all," adds Tessina.
Another avoidance tactic is ostriching, or the natural impulse to ignore unpleasant information or the more basic problem most of us have of limited bandwidth in time, or resources to confront a problem.
