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The strategy backfired nevertheless, as de la Hoya effectively ceded the last three rounds of the fight to his opponent by allowing Trinidad to be perceived as the aggressor.
This defensive strategy backfired when humans began persecuting rattlesnakes and, with them, fox snakes.
This strategy backfired on the NFL, and the NASL won an anti-trust case against the NFL.
Although having some initial success, this strategy backfired when the Persian cavalry commander Masistius was killed ; with his death, the cavalry retreated.
During the primary campaign, Nelson tried to make an issue out of Chiles ' health and age, a strategy that backfired on him in a state with a large population of retirees and senior citizens.
This strategy backfired and he again lost his seat.
The strategy backfired, with Labour's Jim Fitzpatrick easily achieving reelection in Poplar and Limehouse with 18, 679 votes ( 40. 0 % of the vote, up + 4. 7 %).
Zhong Hui and Deng Ai faced little opposition from Shu's forces, whose strategy was to draw the Wei forces in and then close on them — a strategy that backfired, as the Wei forces, much quicker than expected, lept past Shu border cities and immediately onto the important Yang ' an Pass ( 陽安關, in modern Hanzhong, Shaanxi ), capturing it.
After the election, there was a consensus that this strategy seriously backfired.
His strategy backfired, and the Spartans under Lysander scored a small but symbolically significant victory over the Athenian fleet.
The strategy backfired as game attendance plummeted and, further deflated by the Great Depression, the A. B. L.
The strategy backfired as Blue walked Morgan and allowed a two-run double to Tolan, giving the Reds the lead.
Critics argued that this aspect of his conservative strategy backfired on him.
Weyler's strategy also backfired militarily due to the rebellion in the Philippines that required the redeployment by 1897 of some troops already in Cuba.
It has been noted that Infocom's strategy for producing multiple-format interactive fiction backfired on them in this case ; by making graphics that could be displayed on any system, they were not able to exploit each system's particular graphical strengths.
The strategy backfired as Gura gave up a game-tying RBI single to Mickey Rivers, with White reaching third.
The strategy backfired, however ; issued at one of their lowest commercial ebbs in the U. S., Stack-O-Tracks became the first Beach Boys album to fail to reach the U. S. or UK charts.
The strategy backfired when Nirankaries killed 13 sikhs in Amritsar who were peacefully demonstrating against the Nirankaries who were openly disrespecting the holy book of sikhs and the killers were acquitted by the court.
Although successful with Reed's help in winning the Republican primary, Skandalakis's strategy of negative campaigning backfired in the general election.
Under Liu Zhi's advice ( as Liu Zhi believed that a direct attack would not be successful due to the strength of Lu Yanchang's army ), he put Shao under siege to try to wear out Lu Yanchang's defense, but the strategy backfired when, due to high water levels on the river, the Qinghai army's food supplies were disrupted.

strategy and party
This was primarily a political strategy designed to give the Conservative party control of the reform process and the subsequent long-term benefits in the Commons, similar to those derived by the Whigs after their 1832 Reform Act.
Likewise, they generally require more thought and planning than party games, such as Pictionary or Trivial Pursuit, but less than classic strategy games, such as chess and Go.
On this view, the speech was merely part of a badly miscalculated strategy to become party leader if Heath fell.
This strategy was successful regarding all men but Gustav, who stayed loyal to the Sture party.
Most internal divisions within the party concern the party's political position ( neither right nor left, or left-wing ) and electoral strategy ( alliance with the PS, the centre or the alternative left ).
In the 1963 party congress in Naples, he was able to convince the whole party directive of the strategy.
No ALP Senate leaders were at The Lodge, nor did Whitlam and his party contact any when they drove back to Parliament House, confining their strategy to the House of Representatives.
However, this was part of Turner's strategy to rebuild the Liberals ' image in western Canada ; the party held no seats west of Winnipeg.
Thompson was placed on the National Committee, but gave up the on third party strategy in August and supported Abraham Lincoln so as not to risk a Democratic victory in Indiana.
Westerwelle, the youngest party chairman at the time, emphasized economics and education, and espoused a strategy initiated by his deputy Jürgen Möllemann, who, as chairman of the North Rhine-Westphalia branch of party, had led his party back into the state parliament, gaining 9. 8 % of the vote.
The first time this happened, in 60 BC, the weaker party adopted what Barfield calls the ' inner frontier strategy.
Then, the same strategy was tried by co-opting Acción Nacionalista Vasca a historical, yet basically inactive Basque party.
His strategy with the party mirrored the balanced ticket approach of 1930s Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak, who created the Cook County Democratic Organization, characteristic of Chicago by balancing ethnic interests.
This strategy is helped by the fact that much of the motivation that voters have for voting for one party or the other are for reasons that have nothing to do with relations with mainland China.
The defense employed a three-pronged strategy: First, portraying the CPUSA as a conventional political party, which promoted socialism by peaceful means ; second, employing the " labor defense " tactic to attack the trial as a capitalist venture which could never provide a fair outcome to proletarian defendants ; and third, using the trial as an opportunity to publicize CPUSA policies.
Lévesque had argued that the party should not make sovereignty the object of the 1985 election and instead opt for the " Beau risque " strategy of seeking an understanding with the federal government of Mulroney, which angered the strongest supporters of sovereignty within the party.
But Israel's main partner was to be the Maronite Phalange party, whose paramilitary was led by Bashir Gemayel, a rising figure in Lebanese politics Gemayel's strategy during the early stages of the Lebanese Civil War was to provoke the Syrians into retaliatory attacks on Christians, such that Israel could not ignore.
In the first of what would become legendary strategy memos circulated among Republican policymakers, Kristol said the party should " kill ", not amend, President Clinton's health care plan.
Redmond first sided with O ’ Brien's new strategy of " conciliation plus business ", but refused O ’ Brien ’ s demand to rebuke Dillon for his criticism of the Act, leading to O ’ Brien ’ s resignation from the party in November 1903.
The previous two party leaders, Neil Kinnock and John Smith, had begun efforts to modernise the party as a strategy for electoral success, before Smith died in 1994.

strategy and wide
He was at the same time capable of forming and executing the most daring offensive strategy, and his tactical skill in the handling of troops, whether in wide turning movements, as at Würzburg and Zürich, or in masses, as at Aspern and Wagram, was certainly equal to that of any leader of his time, with only a few exceptions.
Charles ' secret weapon turned out to be not so secret and, sooner or later, all sorts of bands were exploiting the same strategy of wide dynamics.
New York abandoned their long drive strategy and employed a quick strike attack of their own, as Hostetler led the Giants 87 yards and scored on a 14-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Stephen Baker with just 25 seconds left in the half to cut New York's deficit to 12-10.
Because an embedded system is often composed of a wide variety of elements, the debugging strategy may vary.
Good theories consist of just one problem-solving strategy, or a small family of problem-solving strategies, that can be applied to a wide range of problems.
Targeting urban adults 18-to-49 years old, Pro TV uses a programming strategy of top international series and movies, as well as a wide variety of local productions including news programming, local entertainment and local fiction.
") The racks are mentioned in some of the ads Shaw placed, and Grey Gull Records became associated with them ( see for example " This Famous Rack is Everywhere ," Springfield Republican, 12 November 1923, p. 7 ) A good example of Shaw's strategy of placing the racks in a wide variety of locations can be seen in an ad for Ruth's Drug Store in Elyria, Ohio.
This desperate, last-ditch strategy finally worked at the wide avenue of Van Ness, where a successful fire break was created after the residences of many city elite were demolished by dynamite to enhance its width.
New America ’ s National Security Studies Program researches and analyses a wide range of global issues, from the inner-workings of al-Qaeda to overall national foreign policy strategy.
He developed the strategy of coordinated simultaneous thrusts against wide portions of the Confederacy, most importantly the Georgia and Carolinas Campaigns of William Tecumseh Sherman and the Shenandoah Valley campaign of Philip Sheridan.
It is used clinically to treat a wide range of medical conditions, including wet age-related macular degeneration and malignant cancers, and is recognised as a treatment strategy which is both minimally invasive and minimally toxic.
In the United States, dayparting is by far the most common among the Big Three television networks, all three of which continue to produce programming for a wide array of audiences ( a programming strategy known as full service ).
It appears in a wide range of games including strategy video games, construction and management simulations and pet-raising simulations.
The strategy seemed to work, as everyone got through cleanly, though John Watson's late braking maneuver down the inside caused him to exit wide from the hairpin and force polesitter Reutemann wide with him, so Villeneuve tucked into the lead as they exited.
Square Enix defined the project as " the company's first steps toward ...' polymorphic content '," a marketing strategy designed to " well-known properties on several platforms, allowing exposure of the products to as wide an audience as possible.
Computacenter advises customers on their IT strategy, implements appropriate technology from a wide range of vendors and manages their technology infrastructures on their behalf.
IHP + puts international principles for aid effectiveness and development cooperation set forth in the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, Accra Agenda for Action and Busan Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation into practice in the health sector by encouraging wide support for a single national health strategy or plan, a single monitoring and evaluation framework, and a strong emphasis on mutual partner accountability.
The Wedge strategy forms the governing basis of a wide range of Discovery Institute intelligent design campaigns.
Dham, with his wide -­ ranging Intel experience, turned around NexGen ’ s strategy.
Bump and run coverage is a strategy often used by defensive backs in American football in which a defensive player lines up directly in front of a wide receiver and tries to impede him with arms, hands, or entire body and disrupt their intended route.
While its initial focus was on PC strategy games, it covered a wide range of game genres and platforms.
The lowest common denominator strategy is an instruction selection technique used on platforms where Processor Supplementary Instructions exist to make executable programs portable across a wide range of computers.
* EasyGameStation: produces a wide variety of games, from brawlers to role playing games to strategy games, most notably released Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale, the first dōjin soft to be distributed on the Steam platform overseas to great success.

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