(v. t.) To go beyond, or be superior to, on the flank; to pass around or turn the flank or flanks of.
Example Sentences:
(1) Set aside the special case of Scotland, where, it would seem, Labour was utterly outflanked from the left rather than the right, and where the party’s recovery will need particular skills.
(2) The prime minister's early-morning initiative was in part designed to head off a Tory backbench revolt over any perceived privileges being given to Scotland , as well as to avoid being outflanked by Nigel Farage's Ukip.
(3) Tesco has stopped the rot in its UK business with the supermarket group reporting its first market share gain in six months as extra clubcard vouchers and "guerrilla" promotions on non-food ranges such as toys and clothing helped it to outflank rival Morrisons .
(4) Maliki, who many say was chosen because he was perceived to be weak and without a strong grassroots power base, has managed to outflank everyone: his Shia allies and foes, the Americans who wanted him removed at one time, even the Iranians.
(5) When his own backbenchers were joined by a much-lampooned Tory, Sir Tufton Beamish, Wilson decided to outflank them all by making his announcement.
(6) Along with a renewed self-confidence the Tory right is also fired up by the risk that Labour could outflank them on the issue.
(7) Similarly, by staking out an aggressive stance against Wall Street and supposedly job-killing foreign trade deals, Trump could also outflank Clinton on the left, in a time of deep economic insecurity.
(8) Osborne regards his move as a bold attempt to outflank Miliband and to draw a sharp distinction with the Tories' past history, when the party opposed the introduction of the minimum wage by the last Labour government in the late 1990s.
(9) Blue Labour thinking, with its emphasis on community-led solutions, is being touted as the party's version of the Big Society, and it's also possible that his emphasis on "family, faith and flag" will be a means of Labour outflanking the coalition on the right.
(10) The violence reportedly flared when police laying out barricades of barbed wire were outflanked by some of an estimated 3,000 miners massed on a rocky outcrop near the mine.
(11) Just a party hierarchy and a party leadership who were trying to shore up their relationship with the rightwing press by ‘taking on’ their members, and trying to outflank the Tories on security,” she wrote.
(12) Since assuming the leadership of the Conservative party, David Cameron has been determined not to be outflanked by Labour on health.
(13) However, since protein gene product 9.5-immunoreactive nerves were not seen in the inflamed tissue it is probable that synovial growth outflanks neural growth and consequently as the disease progresses neural structures become restricted to deeper tissues.
(14) Many Liberals, out defending their seats, felt hopelessly outflanked in 2016 by the ALP organisers that they could see, and nervous about an operation they knew was comprehensively in the field, but wasn’t always in plain sight.
(15) It will still unsettle the ANC, which is terrified of being outflanked by populists.
(16) In a classic soft-power exercise that totally outflanked Beijing, Abe ordered the biggest overseas deployment of Japanese armed forces since 1945, backed by generous donations, to assist the Philippines after last month's super-typhoon disaster.
(17) The critic John Berger writes of her work: “Its aim is to outwit nonsense by outflanking it.
(18) Some suspect that the referendum is a means of distracting the electorate from more pressing issues, and of outflanking Hungary’s largest opposition party, the far-right Jobbik .
(19) May’s response appears to be to try to outflank Leadsom to the right on the issue of immigration.
(20) George Osborne has launched an audacious attempt to outflank Ed Miliband on the cost of living by calling for an above-inflation rise in the national minimum wage to restore it to its value before the financial crash in 2008.
Tactical
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the art of military and naval tactics.
Example Sentences:
(1) Renal arteriography is therefore alone capable of answering two primordial questions: "Must surgery be undertaken and when operating, what surgical tactics to adopt".
(2) For this to work, its leaders had to be able to at least influence the behaviour and tactics of the militant operators on the ground.
(3) "With the advent of sophisticated data-processing capabilities (including big data), the big number-crunchers can detect, model and counter all manner of online activities just by detecting the behavioural patterns they see in the data and adjusting their tactics accordingly.
(4) Time suggests that the FBI inquiry has been extended from a relatively narrow look at alleged malpractices by News Corp in America into a more general inquiry into whether the company used possibly illegal strongarm tactics to browbeat rival firms, following allegations of computer hacking made by retail advertising company Floorgraphics.
(5) The report says this tactic has helped the west uncover at least one of Iran's secret nuclear sites and, according to official statements by the Iranians, has caused enrichment centrifuges to break.
(6) His teams are always hard to beat, tactically disciplined and, most importantly, successful.
(7) The day it opened in the US, three senators – senate select committee on intelligence chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levin and John McCain – released a letter of protest to Sony Pictures's CEO, citing their committee's 6,000-page classified report on interrogation tactics and calling on him "to state that the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden is not based on the facts, but rather part of the film's fictional narrative".
(8) In a sign of deep unease among senior Tories at some of the party’s tactics, Forsyth accused the prime minister of having “shattered” the pro-UK alliance in Scotland and stirring up English nationalism after the Scottish independence referendum last year.
(9) The fact that Moyes did nothing to stem his threat down the right by leaving Shinji Kagawa, who offered no protection to Alexander Büttner, on too long was one illustration of a concerning tactical ineptitude.
(10) France was meanwhile leading a push, which diplomats said was backed by Britain, to hit more strategic military targets in Libya, beyond tactical airstrikes on Gaddafi's armour in the vicinity of cities such as Misrata and Ajdabiya.
(11) He wasn't the first to employ such scare tactics: in late October, the mayor of the Urals city of Izhevsk was caught on video telling veterans that their government allowances would be raised if United Russia received a high percentage of the vote.
(12) Among possible causes for the increase in deaths in the Mediterranean this year, the agency cited a worsening quality of vessels and smugglers’ tactics to avoid detection by authorities, such as sending many boats out at the same time, which makes the work of rescuers harder.
(13) These tactics yield litters at weaning whose variability has been very much reduced.
(14) Del Bosque had listened to the criticism, all that stuff about it being a negative tactic, and decided not to budge an inch, and who can blame him?
(15) That’s a dodgy tactic because the German penalties are so accurate.
(16) The instability of conjunctival flora with time implies a modification in tactics of bacteriological preoperative samples in order to obtain a better operative security.
(17) Attorneys for people caught on the US’s sprawling terrorism watchlists are expressing concern that the latest tactic by gun control advocates is blessing the legitimacy of a process they say threatens civil rights.
(18) The insurgency is still raging, and the president will have to inspire the security forces, choose generals to lead the fight, and plot tactics to beat a tenacious and experienced enemy.
(19) Tactical voting also delivered significant gains - up to 50 seats, on some estimates - to the Liberal Democrats in Labour's slipstream as the Tories came close to a freefall.
(20) Austin said: "Since the House of Lords judgment, the police have increased their use of the tactic of kettling, with disastrous consequences for the right to peaceful protest and the safety of protesters.