tactic

Definition:
1. A plan for attaining a particular goal.

Use 'tactic' in a sentence:

• 1. Fires were started by the prisoners as a diversionary tactic.
• 2. A tactic, however, is not a principle.
• 3. Different circumstances call for different tactics.
• 4. Socially, it may be a good tactic to hide our true emotions, but morally it is also a breach of faith and trust.
• 5. The infantry would use hit and run tactics to slow attacking forces.
• 6. A clear split over tactics appears to be emerging between doves and hawks in the party.
• 7. They were aware of the severe shortcomings in their tactics.
• 8. Bina believes that brands need to readdress their exclusivity tactic.
• 9. The tactic could well help invigorate a struggling campaign.
• 10. He can claim to have been defeated by opponents copying his own tactics.
• 11. It is a tactic.
• 12. Without an action, what would a tactic be?
• 13. We must use shock tactics if we are to stop Aids becoming another accepted 20th-century disease.
• 14. Fear is not always a negative tactic.
• 15. His opportunity to re-establish himself had been nobbled by the manager's tactics.
• 16. The President's tactics could backfire.
• 17. Given the presence of the virus, the trees' defensive tactic apparently has backfired.
• 18. But now she's trying a new tactic.
• 19. He pressed on in the hope that a few others would join him. The tactic paid off.
• 20. It's time to try a change of tactic.
• 21. Is breakfast a necessary start to the day or a marketing tactic by cereal companies?
• 22. 'Ha, ha,' everyone guffawed. 'It's one of Viv's shock tactics.'
• 23. I dare say it's just a business tactic.
• 24. Every tactic must suit the strategy.
• 25. A change of heart, or of tactic?
• 26. He insists that QE is an effective tactic.
• 27. Over the years he sparred with his friend Jesse Jackson over political tactics.
• 28. This public naming and shaming is a new tactic.
• 29. You have probably heard of this tactic before.
• 30. They used pressure tactics to force them to return, including cutting food and water supplies.
• 31. The tactic never really works.
• 32. Doubtless such talk is mostly a negotiating tactic.
• 33. This was the first time he'd used the card tactic.
• 34. But that tactic no longer works.
• 35. Confrontation is not always the best tactic.
• 36. It's thought the fires were started by the prisoners as a diversionary tactic.
• 37. Some people accuse the tax inspectors of bully-boy tactics.
• 38. Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment.
• 39. It's a well-tried tactic to play down public expectations in advance of a superpower summit.
• 40. It's a shrewd tactic.
• 41. The money has been recovered without resorting to verbal abuse or strong-arm tactics.
• 42. What sort of tactics will the President use to rally the people behind him?
• 43. Yet it is a bizarre tactic.
• 44. There had been two strands to his tactics.
• 45. Mr. Yang was planning another tactic to stall by making everything complicated.
• 46. Most people disapprove of such violent tactics.
• 47. One tactic involves where to display the goods.
• 48. Haig was limited by his blinkered approach to strategy and tactics.
• 49. Ministers are using delaying tactics to postpone the report yet again.
• 50. His tactics were to entangle the opposition in a web of parliamentary procedure.
• 51. The tactic is a bit complicated for a brief article, but the basic idea is to attach each digit to a specific consonant.
• 52. Their tactics have been copied by other terrorist organizations.
• 53. The manager discussed tactics with his team.
• 54. The tactics the police are now to employ are definitely uncompromising.
• 55. This was just the latest in a series of delaying tactics.
• 56. Readers of this overheated but often on-the-mark polemic will conclude that the safest tactic is organic food and a fly swatter.
• 57. The group have frequently used bully-boy tactics.
• 58. The tactics employed can range from overt bullying to subtle emotional blackmail.