Sentences with phrase «as a tactic against»

But «there is no evidence that Pershing himself» used pigs as a tactic against Muslim insurgents, Politifact wrote last year.

He hasn't broken into the rotation just yet, but these are early days, and he already played in crunch time just last game as a tactic against John Wall.

Not exact matches

Iran has caused international concern over its frequent naval drills in the strait, seen as intimidation tactics against its rivals.

While the show has successfully taken on a number of issues important to the left in recent years, such as help for Puerto Rico following the devastating hurricane last year and warning against the prospect of a President Trump, the tactics used to respond to the Apu controversy largely came across as tone deaf.

But the investigators allege that the investigation was actually an intimidation tactic against Shi launched for her suspected role as a whisteblower who spilled the beans about Glaxo's marketing tactics in China, and that they eventually became scapegoats who were arrested and imprisoned for their investigation of Shi.

Manafort reportedly viewed the raid on his home as an «intimidation tactic» to get him to flip against Trump.

Mr. Lighthizer, Mr. Navarro and other proponents of a harder line against China have argued that the Chinese tend to use such dialogues as a delaying tactic, and that past trade negotiations with them have not been productive.

As a defensive tactic against ransomware attacks, corporations have been noted to buy «emergency funds» of 50 to 100 bitcoins to be able to negotiate with hackers.

Knauf, which also has a stake in the construction materials company, had asked shareholders to vote against the board nominees as part of its tactic to get USG (NYSE: USG) to accept its offer.

Ignoring your tax debt will impel the IRS to use tough tactics against you, such as placing a tax lien against your property or levying your assets until your debt is satisfied.

Your little «on second thought» dig clearly insinuated something about my own religious commitments; your sarcasm was too weak to warrant recognition; and your choice to decry me as «emotional» is a really tired tactic which mean who don't respect women use against women when they've been cornered.

«your choice to decry me as «emotional» is a really tired tactic which mean who don't respect women use against women when they've been cornered.»

Otherwise similar tactics could be used against «soundbite theism» such as: «The empty tomb.»

But the next time you go into a tirade against me I will likely tell you once again to Fuck Off, not to shock you but simply as a reminder that free people no longer fall prey to such tactics.

«All the time not having a clue that they were being whispered against, campaigned against by both Catholics & Anglicans who made it palpably clear that this initiative was detrimental to the «dialogue towards unity» and temporarily compromised their positions as oecumenical ambassadors - that this was a counter-productive «wacked - out» scheme by an ailing Pope who merely needed to be placated until he died - hence delaying tactics, obfuscations, procedurality, red tape and making everything as difficult and administratively untenable as possible; with patronising sympathy and hand - wringing at their lot while sneering, dismissing and chuckling to themselves that the whole thing will eventually come to naught... that the administration will crumble via crises and power politics andpersonality clashes and outright frustration at the situation... and ultimately the Ordinariate will be re-integrated into the Conference system and those not happy about it will crawl back to their friends in the C of E.

Like «The increasing use of terrorism as a tactic in war»: what exactly are you saying there, are you including war casualties (like roadside bombs against convoys) in this statistics too?

If slighter and slighter Machine - destroying potentiality becomes accepted as justification for these tactics, they (particularly the easier ones) become habits, and the stance morphs into an existentialist mandate to Rage against society no matter what.

We are always telling moderate Muslims to speak out against Islamic extremists, to tell the world that they are as much against the evil tactics of the extremists as everyone else is.

Is the charge of anti-Semitism against political critics of Israel being employed as a coercive tactic?

Tactics: Against top 5 teams, Cazorla in the wings and Arteta as DM don't cut it.

When it comes down to tactics, as much as I despise him, Jose has got it nailed, especially against someone like Wenger who is extremely predictable.

When they come up against a dysfunctional team like Arsenal who play as individuals, no tactics and don't have a team effort then they might mash us again..

Although many will suggest that Robson has a personal vendetta of sorts aimed squarely at the Grinch who stole soccer, that doesn't make his words any less truthful... such tactics are nothing new... in the U.S.this business practice has become so common that even the players regularly use the media to manipulate public opinion (LeBron James did likewise to rally public support for himself and away from his teammate, Kyrie Irving, who has asked to be traded)... whether for contract leverage or to rally support for or against certain players, this strategy can be incredibly effective at times, but when it misses the mark it can be dangerously divisive... for a close - to - the - vest team like Arsenal to use such nefarious means to manufacture a wedge between the fans and it's best player (again), is absolutely despicable... for the sanctimonious higher - ups who demand that it's players adhere to a certain protocol regarding information deemed «in house» or else to intentionally spread «fake» news or to provide certain outlets with privileged information for such purposes is pretty low indeed... no moral high ground here, just a big club pretending to be a small club so that they can continue to pull the wool over the eyes of a dedicated, albeit somewhat naive, fan base... so not only does this club no give a shit about it's fans, this clearly shows that clubs primary interests aren't even soccer related... for all intent and purposes Kroenke doesn't care if we're a soccer club or a tampon factory as long as we continue to maximized his investment... stay woke people... great to see more and more people commenting on the state of the franchise... this club needs to be held accountable for it's actions

Besides if you and I can see that Arsenal struggle against teams who play a pressing game, surely any experienced manager with the players capable of carrying out the tactics would just use that on Arsenal as Dortmund did

Yes, that's my take as well, we need to add another striker type so that we can change the tactics and style according with the team we play against.

They are happily ignoring the way that Arsenal are playing these days, against bigger or smaller teams and with different tactics as the different game demands.

they did nt we were just so f# ck & ng predictable because of the same bullshit tactics that may have worked against the smaller teams but against the larger ones at full strength... well you ask the question again as to why we don't beat the top sides, they hire managers like mourinho who are tacticians and take one look at arsenal's team sheet and know exactly what they are doing... there is a reason we haven't beaten them in a while.

Before the start of the series, in a desperate attempt to develop some special strategy to stop Orr and his goal - scoring sidekick, Esposito, Philadelphia Coach Fred Shero had spent long hours analyzing films of his team's repeated losses to the Bruins as well as clips of the Russian national team's checking tactics against Team Canada.

I don think all those responding this morning has woken up yet, man City put seven past burnley and unless we adopted the same tactics of two seasons ago by being very defensive and hit them on counterattack because it's important we get a result as we did against Chelsea when most pundits were fearing the worst and a point on Sunday will be wicked for it will do wonders for the players self confidence and send a message as well that arsenal can still do the business

For me the ice had already broken after that performance against Manure, now he's back to the same old suicidal defensive tactics again, as if we hadn't suffered enough already, Wenger really has to go, it was obviously not working, and he hasn't changed up... again.

As witnessed this season with the Away performances against all the teams (bar Palace) in the lower reaches of the League.You could have written Southampton's tactics before the game as it's what most teams do against us.We continue to be unconvincing and like you Anders S I do not offer the excuse of the side being full of replacements for rested First Team playerAs witnessed this season with the Away performances against all the teams (bar Palace) in the lower reaches of the League.You could have written Southampton's tactics before the game as it's what most teams do against us.We continue to be unconvincing and like you Anders S I do not offer the excuse of the side being full of replacements for rested First Team playeras it's what most teams do against us.We continue to be unconvincing and like you Anders S I do not offer the excuse of the side being full of replacements for rested First Team players.

A thinly veiled threat that we can expect more rough treatment from the Stoke players, just as their midfield enforcer Steven N'Zonzi made no secret of what their tactics against Arsenal will be.

My personal opinion is that Theo can be played as a CF against certain teams depending on their tactics, formations etc, but should be used primarily as a winger / striker.

Arsene Wenger will be hoping that the players produce a better performance against Manchester United than they did against the spuds, but the boss will need to get his tactics right as well, especially as he is coming up against his old enemy Jose Mourinho who the Frenchman has got a terrible record against.

It is more to do with the tactics than the formation, but the problem is Wenger will NEVER change his tactics, so we might as stick with the 3 -4-3, because every manager knows exactly how to set up against the old 4 -2-3-1 formation.

When the SPUDS had us against the ropes and were pushing forward was the time to get creative, change tactics and bring players with new ideas i.e TR7 BUT then Le Prof subs our best player, true it was not Cazorlas best game, but by far was not as bad as RAMBO....

Stronger defensively wenger has tried to integrate the 4 -14-1 tactics in certain games this works well against those team who like to play with an ATt mid but it didn't offer much support to the wide men as there starting positions was very deep.

Lets use the same tactics as we did against liverpool!

Whether is gonna be Giorud or Alexis as CF will depend on opponents tactic, but I can't imagine Bournemouth will play open football against us.

I wonder why the guy kept Campbell if he will not play him, why play Ozil or Cazorla on the left wing when you have Podolsky.The team did well as they always do against weak team but the tactic remain the same, look how Arsenal were better at the end without the usual suspects forced on the team Wilshr, Arteta etc..

for example the bayern - madrid game robben was marked by two players almost all game he was neutralized by a disciplined marcelo does wenger even watch such games at home to learn a thing or two about tactics coz when we play bayern robben always scores the same exact goals against us with his left foot ffs, we shouldnt yearn for top 4 as we do nt deserve to be competing at that level honestly, sad to be writing this..

If they play as the tactic dictates then we will never lost the game against Barcelona or draw with the sc ums.

I have a bad feeling that Wenger's struggles against Mourinho would continue as hos negative and counter attacking tactics are ideally suited to face the Gunners.

As for the transfers, I said he could have done better, but we are starting to buy the world class players that arsenal deserves... My point is that on the day it's arsenals 11 against the opposition 11, and it's up to the players to get the win... Wenger plays a big part in the tactics and formations yes... However ultimately it's down to the players to come up with the result... I think the players get away with poor performances too lightly as wenger gets the brunt of the criticism, ultimately it was a poor performance by the players yesterday not by wengAs for the transfers, I said he could have done better, but we are starting to buy the world class players that arsenal deserves... My point is that on the day it's arsenals 11 against the opposition 11, and it's up to the players to get the win... Wenger plays a big part in the tactics and formations yes... However ultimately it's down to the players to come up with the result... I think the players get away with poor performances too lightly as wenger gets the brunt of the criticism, ultimately it was a poor performance by the players yesterday not by wengas wenger gets the brunt of the criticism, ultimately it was a poor performance by the players yesterday not by wenger

Wenger is a great asset to Arsenal, but as a manager with his flaws, it may be better to move him into an other position at the club and get someone who knows how to prevent injuries wenger could but did nt — or with the tactical variety to prevent losses like at anfield and stamford bridge, or making the change of tactic when we just cant score against teams like leicester.

As for his tactics he has none it is simply play our way don't worry about the opposition well we don't have he best team on paper to do that so no wonder we all come up short against the very best with that line of thinking.

possibly a cup game as well) they did employ a tactic that a lot of mid-table and lower teams employ against us.

However, as last season painfully taught the Frenchman, possession is not nine tenths of football as it is the law and those heavy and damaging away drubbings at the hands of Liverpool, Man City, Everton and our opponents this weekend Chelsea have forced the manager to re-evaluate his tactics against the bigger sides and boy has it paid off, as Wenger explained in a report on the Arsenal website.

It also came at a time, where it was clear, we yet again were not anywhere near challenging for the PL title, and the reasons for not challenging seemed to be exactly the same as in the years before; losing most games against the other top clubs, and generally using tactics, where many opponents relatively score easily, especially if they are a bit physical and determined.

The whole performance was spineless.Every Away Game is now like Groundhog Day.Teams know how to set up against us as we are completely one dimensional with no other tactic other than to try and retain possession.Yes Sanchez was guilty of continually giving the ball away but at least he was trying to make things happen.Its the same with Ozilwho would always try to make a pass that is incisive as opposed to our frustrating trait of sideways and backward keepball.