Thus the difficulty of tactical retreat and accommodation on the question of marriage. (firstthings.com)
The real business of politics is messy: it always involves compromise, often requires tactical retreat and generally makes people settle for less than they really want. (epolitics.com)
Shawcroft's enforced pressing of an ejector seat button to allow her place on the party's national executive seat to be filled, possibly only temporarily, by Eddie Izzard, much to the delight of its weaker Right - wing competitors Progress and Labour First, was an embarrassing tactical retreat in the anti-Semitism controversy. (totalpolitics.com)