Sentences with phrase «of tactical retreats»

Instead, Premier Christy Clark is embarking on a fascinating series of tactical retreats that might not only decide the fate of the pipeline and the next government in B.C., but also the fates of Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and maybe, too, of Trudeau.

Thus the difficulty of tactical retreat and accommodation on the question of marriage.

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This budget marks a tactical retreat by a chastened government whose recklessness a year ago bought it a year of trouble it did not want.

The B.C. Liberals are designing a tactical retreat with their Federal cousins in mind, all in hopes of fighting another election as soon as possible, one they hope to win.

Now the principal proponent of the «Benedict Option» appears to be Rod Dreher, who escapes Mills's criticisms mostly unscathed, and who does sometimes speak of a «tactical retreat» from the public square.

Neither do I think that understanding is furthered by speaking of «retreat,» tactical or otherwise.

The alternative would be to make a tactical retreat, hand over our schools gradually to the state, and insist on the right of Catholic pupils in state education to be treated with the same consideration as people of other faiths.

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.

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.

From a structuralist standpoint, the army's tacit acceptance of improved trade relations therefore reflects a «tactical retreat» rather than a «strategic shift».

Well before Cuomo's tactical retreat this week (during which he blamed the Board of Regents), governors and lawmakers who had previously supported the standards, particularly in the South, had begun to back away from them.

So, Labour, if it follows Labour Uncut's advice, and avoids this dastardly trap by our Etonian masters, will have accepted social cleansing, greater inequality, etc, not merely as some sort of forced defeat by parliamentary arithmetic, but as a conscious decision, perhaps justified by some notions by some of a «tactical retreat» (don't laugh).

In the role of a scientist called Bob — not to reveal anything more about this character, or the plot — Michael Stuhlbarg imbues seemingly limitless detail into every morally clear self - assertion and exasperated tactical retreat of a man who is being undercut on all sides.

The screenwriters manage to jerry - rig a complex and unnerving situation that could spiral out of control at any moment: This is a summer blockbuster contingent on grand bargains, tactical retreats, and a ferocious, inevitable shock - and - awe campaign.

You will be challenged by highly intelligent AI that is capable of advanced tactical maneuvers such as flanking, surrounding and even fake retreating, almost like what you would experience in real combat.

Next, a classic example of someone retreating into tactical literalism because they have absolutely nowhere else to go:

It's a tactical retreat after decades of cropping that exhausted scarce water resources.