(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.
Tactician
Definition:
(n.) One versed in tactics; hence, a skillful maneuverer; an adroit manager.
Example Sentences:
(1) A man with a secret strategy, or a serial tactician with no strategy worthy of the name?
(2) The senior Turnbull government tactician Christopher Pyne has said a double-dissolution election remains “a live option”, as the Coalition struggles to defend its handling of tax reform.
(3) Nor would the skilled tactician have forgone the opportunity to reiterate the now-familiar message that the economy is moving from "rescue to recovery".
(4) Peter Murrell, the party's chief executive and architect of the SNP's remarkable climb to dominance in Scotland over the past two years, said Labour had focused its best tacticians on the campaign, but not from within Scotland, but across the UK.
(5) But this latest reversal, which saw the budget unravelling within two days of being delivered – “We’re not wedded to these numbers,” said a Treasury source on Friday of the welfare cuts published in the budget red book – reminded backbenchers that his great strength as a political tactician can also be a weakness.
(6) That was also testimony to David Cameron's dependency on George Osborne as a shrewd reader of political situations, a cunning tactician and the back-room architect of much of Tory strategy.
(7) Here military tacticians were also trying to invent a new form of warfare, desperate to break the terrible stalemate that the trenches represented.
(8) Read more But as he mapped out his path to No 10, Osborne the tactician reckoned without the strength of feeling among many backbench Tory MPs – and their Eurosceptic constituents – about what they regard as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to throw off the shackles of Brussels.
(9) But though a brilliant tactician who ran rings around his peers and rivals in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo, confounded the Serbian opposition and outwitted an endless array of international mediators, Milosevic was a lousy strategist.
(10) He was considered his chief tactician, with Corretja providing advice mainly during the clay-court season.
(11) Osborne is a shrewd tactician and political escapologist, as he has proved many times.
(12) George Osborne’s reputation as a master political tactician may have gone the way of Leave’s £350m a week for the NHS, but the spectre of his misguided energy policy could haunt Britain for decades, and at Hinkley in north Somerset, for millennia.
(13) Each day the tacticians tot up a gruesome calculus of wins and losses.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Owen Jones video: Tory tax credit cuts are a work penalty Osborne likes to see himself as the master tactician; now he looks like the great blunderer: from Darth Vader to Benny Hill in a matter of days.
(15) Back in the 1970s, when players such as Jimmy Connors and Ilie Nastase cut a macho swath across the game, women were openly derided as inferior players and tacticians.
(16) Charles Antaki writes: "David Wall makes a good fist of a pro-van Gaal argument; certainly the man is clearly a thoughtful tactician, and a forceful enough personality to both instil his vision in his players and get them actually to implement it out on the pitch.
(17) The season is only midway through and the gaffer Ed Miliband and his chief tactician Cruddas are getting on pretty well.
(18) After Cantor fell, McCarthy showed himself a wily tactician, coming fast out of the block and letting it be known he was the heir apparent with the necessary votes, all but sealing the majority leader race within 48 hours.
(19) I believe it will require some level of special operators on the ground,” he said, “to subject Isis to high-profile, humiliating defeats, to sort of reverse this narrative that they’ve created that they are an invincible force.” Rubio said the size of such an American special operations force “would depend on our military tacticians to outline a strategy and tell us what the commitment would be.
(20) A master tactician, he lacked strategic vision and left little to his successors but the ruins of a political system he once played to his own advantage with consummate skill.