Sentences with phrase «scorched earth strategy»

One way to turn a divorce into trench warfare is to hire a go - for - the - throat attack dog lawyer whose scorched earth strategy makes a wasteland of negotiations.

These are divorces where each spouse hires a «pit bull» attorney, they both engage in a scorched earth strategy, and they try to win at all costs, even as both of them tend to lose.

Not exact matches

This strategy failed miserably: in part, because the Speech contained absolutely nothing that would indicate he had a visionary strategy for the country; in part, because the Speech was anything but Conservative; and in part, but more importantly, because he decided, for some unknown reason, to take a scorched - earth approach to «eliminating» three senators.

But he never departed significantly from his core strategy, nor joined in a scorched earth assault on the party's past.

By the way, in a previous blog post, I featured a different op - ed that Dick and I wrote in The Boston Globe in July of last year («Beware of Scorched - Earth Strategies in Climate Debates»).

In their response pleading to the destruction allegations, prosecutors accused the defense of «a scorched - earth litigation strategy.»