Sentence examples for using a reverse playbook from inspiring English sources

O'Hara prefaced the novel, his most brilliant, with a quotation from Somerset Maugham about the futility of using a reverse playbook to avoid your fate: The servant of a Baghdad merchant runs into Death at the marketplace and gallops off as fast as he can to Samarra, thinking Death will not find him.

Interestingly, as W. competed to surpass the father, who had long overshadowed him, he gave his old man an inadvertent gift: It was only because W. used his father as a reverse playbook that it was possible to see 41's "failures" in a rosier light.

Mr. Bush spent his first year using his father's failures as a reverse playbook.

Despite the efforts of W. and Karl Rove to use Poppy's one-term presidency as a reverse playbook, to instead aim for the populist two-term touch of Ronald Reagan, the junior Bush now finds himself combating the same accusations of elitism that cost his father re-election.

WASHINGTON — As eight senators in a bipartisan group look ahead to a broad immigration overhaul, they are also looking back to 2006 and 2007 — the last time a major immigration measure was considered — as something of a reverse playbook.

If the president uses the reverse playbook now, and continues to coddle the conservatives his father neglected, he has to go topple the wacky Iraqi, completing Poppy's unfinished business.

"It's an earnest effort," he said, adding that the magazine has tried to tackle fiction using a nonfiction playbook before.

The new leadership, however, is using a familiar playbook - and has reminded the world that North Korea is at its most dangerous when confronted.

"The Chinese are merely using a much older playbook and are holding our multinationals hostage".

Mr. Putin, using a similar centralizing, marketizing, globalizing playbook, has helped put Russia in a position to win big.

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