The tactic succeeded, and the Hōjō foiled the siege.

British fire from the rooftops of adjacent tall buildings, including the Shelbourne Hotel, however, soon convinced them of the folly of this tactic, and they withdrew to the adjacent Royal College of Surgeons.

In the provincial capital the Vietnamese adopted their favourite tactic: they withdrew from the towns into the adjoining hills.

As this tactic became better known to the enemy, the Mongols would extend their feigned retreats for days or weeks, to falsely convince the chasers that they were defeated, only to charge back once the enemy again had its guard down or withdrew to join its main formation.

But the tactic fell into relative disuse after Babe Ruth introduced the era of the home run – in 1955, for example, no one in baseball stole more than 25 bases, and Dom DiMaggio won the AL stolen base title in 1950 with just 15.

Additionally, he often wore a Kryptonite ring on his right hand in Post-Crisis stories, but abandoned this tactic after prolonged exposure to K-radiation resulted in the loss of his hand and poisoned his entire body ( requiring him to transplant his brain into a cloned body in order to survive ).

This tactic is named after a police interrogation technique often portrayed in the media.

It is commonly believed that this became the dominant European cavalry tactic in the 11th century after the development of the cantled saddle and stirrups ( the Great Stirrup Controversy ), and of rowel spurs ( which enabled better control of the mount ).

This tactic seemed to be successful ; after a year, the power balance became more favorable to the CPC.

A similar tactic was employed by many players in rallying Sampras ; they would play shot after shot to the Sampras backhand, hoping to wear him down.

Godse later rejected Gandhi, after he saw Gandhi's repeated sabotage against the interests of Hindus by using the " fasting unto death " tactic on many issues.

The use of " death squads " as a government tactic became particularly widespread after 1966.

This tactic worked fairly well, but in the third round a smiling Hearns turned his back on Hagler after an exchange.

Some historians have suggested that the at-the-time unprecedented laws banning interracial marriage were originally invented by planters as a divide and rule tactic after the uprising of servants in Bacon's Rebellion.

Some South American urban guerrillas as the Tupamaros and Montoneros called them " miguelitos " and used these as a tactic to avoid pursuit after ambushes.

The development of the tactical innovation of the bomber stream by the RAF to overwhelm the German aerial defenses of the Kammhuber Line during World War II would have increased the RAF's concentration in time over the target, but after the lessons learned during the Blitz, the concentration of dropping bombs over the target in the shortest time possible became standard tactic of the RAF because it was known to be more effective than spreading the raid over a longer time period.

A full year after interrogating Brian Kelley, and having failed to either bring a case against him or find another suspect, the FBI decided on a new tactic – buying the mole's identity.

They were named after an officer who was a superb exponent of the tactic and may possibly have conceived it originally, Lieutenant Colonel " Jock " Campbell.

It came to prominence as a contentious tactic within unconventional environmentalist circles during the 1980s, after it was advocated by Earth First!

The Thach Weave ( also known as a Beam Defense Position or Dutch Rudder ) is an aerial combat tactic developed by naval aviator John S. Thach of the United States Navy soon after the United States ' entry into World War II.

Shortly after this, and once he had rejoined his teammates, a tactic designed to disable the super-Sentinel Nimrod backfired and Kurt found himself at the mercies of an angry mob ( in a nod to his first appearance in Giant Sized X-Men # 1 ) without his teleportation ability.

In 2001, Tucows, Inc. became a wholly owned subsidiary of Infonautics, and after acquiring Tucows, Infonautics changed its name to Tucows, Inc., a business tactic called a " reverse takeover.

Achilles uses this tactic time after time to become influential in Russia, Pakistan, India, and China.

) Always opposed to the United Front tactic of the Comintern, the Fraction now declared itself firmly opposed to the Popular Front after 1933.

Bergman provided him with armed bodyguards and, after legal consultation, urged him to testify for the State of Mississippi in a lawsuit against Big Tobacco brought by Mississippi Attorney General Mike Moore, a tactic designed to nullify his confidentiality agreement before revealing the truth in an interview with Mike Wallace for 60 Minutes.

Some South American urban guerrillas as the Tupamaros and Montoneros called them " miguelitos " and used these as a tactic to avoid pursuit after ambushes.

However, shortly after his appointment, Hussein made comments which suggested that suicide bombing was an acceptable tactic for Palestinians to use against Israel.

When Perkins uses a new tactic to get them away, after he is shot in the face by one of the outlaws with a hose, he says he will talk to their fathers.

Mining saw a brief resurgence as a military tactic during the First World War, when army engineers attempted to break the stalemate of trench warfare by tunneling under no man's land and laying large quantities of explosives beneath the enemy's trench.

* As the Persian satraps have gathered for a war council at Zeleia, Memnon argues that it is preferable for the Persians to avoid a pitched battle and adopt a scorched earth tactic.

For the first time, the tactic of using two express bowlers in tandem paid off as Jack Gregory and Ted McDonald crippled the English batting on a regular basis.

In Heavy Metal: F. A. K. K. ² and Shadow Man, this tactic was developed further, allowing the player to wield two dissimilar weapons at once, firing each one independently.

The tactic proved unsuccessful, but when Tallard arrived to bolster the Elector's army, and Prince Eugene arrived with reinforcements for the Allies, the two armies finally met on the banks of the Danube in and around the small village of Blindheim.

Although no serious injuries arose from any short-pitched deliveries while a leg theory field was set, the tactic still led to considerable ill feeling between the two teams, with the controversy eventually spilling into the diplomatic arena.

Over the next two decades, several of the Laws of Cricket were changed to prevent this tactic being repeated.

However the tactic of compromising can still be used in runoff voting because it is sometimes necessary to compromise as a way of influencing which two candidates will survive to the second round.

In chess, a fork is a tactic whereby a single piece makes two or more direct attacks simultaneously.

The aggressive tactic prompted U. S. President Clinton to invoke the Taiwan Relations Act and dispatch two aircraft carrier battle groups into the region off Taiwan's southern coast to monitor the situation, and PRC's missile tests were forced to end earlier than planned.

A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed from the 17th through to the mid-19th century to take part in the naval tactic known as the line of battle, in which two columns of opposing warships would manoeuvre to bring the greatest weight of broadside guns to bear.

Cleveland's defeat of his opponent, James Blaine may have been helped by another discrediting tactic used against him which seriously backfired, namely the assertion that Cleveland's party was that of " Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion " ( the latter two referring to Roman Catholicism and the American Civil War ).

This is an almost universal tactic in the desktop printer business, with printers selling in the US for as little as $ 100 including two ink cartridges ( often half-full ), which themselves cost around $ 30 each to replace.

But at its origin, the act was meant as an ostensibly temporary tactic by which Mao's China hoped to gain a strategic advantage over the Soviet Union, with the United States thus being viewed as the " lesser of two evils ".

This did not seem to bring him any increased difficulty in governing, for two reasons: that the Sons of Liberty also feared the introduction of rural problems into the city, believing that they should be the only ones to use riots as a bargaining tactic ; and that the assembly at the time was dominated by the patroons, or large estate owners.

The tactic split the Anti-Nazi League in two whilst attracting more media publicity for the Front.

In 1968, PCdoB suffered two internal divisions: the Red Wing PCdoB ( favorable to foquista tactic ) and the Revolutionary Communist Party ( PCR ).

If this tactic is accurate, the announcement made by the Dalai Lama on 10 March 2011 that he will step down from his political role may result in a change of policy regarding the two disputed candidates.

* Battery ( chess ), a tactic consisting of placing two or more pieces on the same rank, file, or diagonal

This tactic didn't work however, for two reasons.

Because a bowler may not bowl consecutive overs, the general tactic is for the captain to appoint two bowlers to alternate overs from opposite ends.

In a more recent example, according to a report issued by the commission for public complaints against the RCMP, at the 2010 G20 summit held in Toronto, at least two plainclothes police officers posing as protesters were among those arrested, suggesting that the tactic has been employed on more than one occasion in Canada.

His worst injury from this tactic was a wrist cut that landed him in the hospital for two months.

In an attempt to overcome the fleet's overall air defence deficiency following the loss of Sheffield, a new tactic was devised, which saw the two Type 22 frigates each teamed with one of the remaining pair of Type 42 destroyers ( unofficially termed Type 64, the sum of both classes numbers ); these were deployed together some distance from the main fleet, covering likely attack routes, in an attempt to draw attacking aircraft into a " missile trap ".

In 1930 and the following years, Carr was instrumental in developing the Bodyline bowling tactic together with future England captain Douglas Jardine and the two Nottinghamshire fast bowlers Harold Larwood and Bill Voce.

The lawsuit was a negotiating tactic on the part of the two investors, and they subsequently agreed to a restructuring that allowed Brookfield to acquire the property.