Sentences with phrase «tactical retreat»

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

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.

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.

Yet it would be more accurate to think of China's social media revolution as a Tai Chi — style contest — a long entanglement of slow advances and tactical retreats whose result is not determined by a few strong blows.

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.

But the Department has not surrendered; instead, it appears to have made a clever tactical retreat.

It felt like you were, in a sense, gaining momentum and then using it to fuel these attacks, and gave a nice build to your aggressive motions in the battle, allowing for tactical retreats and dodges.

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.

The outcome of those frantic conversations was a tactical retreat and a strategic regrouping.

Instead they'll be branded «Scion,» a tactical retreat if there ever was one.

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.

Vancouver, Wash. - based pizza joint Papa Murphy's is employing a tactical retreat: up to 16 stores will be closing by the end of...

In what amounted to a tactical retreat, the U.S. central bank said an array of global risks and other factors had convinced it to delay what would have been the first rate hike in nearly a decade.

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.

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.

As the clock ticked down in the final 15 minutes, Danny Rose and Kieran Trippier, who replaced the injured Kyle Walker, dropped further back to effectively create a five - man defensive line, although even before this tactical retreat, Spurs showed they had the numbers to disrupt if not stop Arsenal's fluid attacking front four.

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

The tactical retreat by his critics is a boost for the Prime Minister on the eve of Labour's annual conference in Manchester starting today.

By performing a tactical retreat, Corbyn has avoided a mass shadow cabinet walkout.

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).

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.

Rothstein's maneuver here is a tactical retreat.

You're able to rotate your ships in any direction to suit your strategy, be it positioning your fleets for a flanking maneuver, a head - on charge or a tactical retreat.

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

Former housing minister Yvette Cooper's trumpeted vision for EPCs can now be seen as an attempt to cover a tactical retreat in every other aspect of HIP policy.