Combined with counterplays and the excellent cutback running of Thomas, this tactic proved very successful.

Though Democrats reinstated the disappearing quorum when they took control of the House the following year, Reed as minority leader proved so adroit at using the tactic against them that Democrats reinstated Reed Rules in 1894.

This tactic often proved effective.

This may reflect the movement's difficulties in obtaining original military equipment, but nonetheless proved a powerful tactic.

Peace negotiations conducted by the friendly Lakota chieftain Spotted Tail with Red Cloud initially seemed promising, but proved to be only a delaying tactic by the Indians.

Since sulfur mustard is very persistent, involatile, hard-to-decontaminate and highly effective in inflicting debilitating casualties at even low doses, this tactic proved to be very effective.

During season 1999 – 00, Caley Thistle's then-manager Steve Paterson decided to move Wilson up front as a striker, which proved an extremely successful tactic, with Wilson scoring a number of goals that season.

This tactic proved very successful.

Historian Robert Holmes states: " The new knightly tactic of charging with the lance couched – tucked firmly under the arm to unite the impact of man and horse – proved a battle-winner.

Nunn also attacked Cook for his Catholic faith, a tactic that proved particularly effective with the state's Protestant voters.

This campaign tactic proved popular as Finch was elected over Republican nominee Gil Carmichael, then an automobile dealer from Meridian, and the African American Independent independent candidate Henry Kirksey.

The Kandyans resorted to fighting a guerilla war ( much the same tactic as they had adopted against the Portuguese and the Dutch ) and proved difficult to dislodge.

However, later in the campaign a new defensive tactic was applied which proved highly resistant against tank attacks.

The Waukee store proved to be the most successful of the three, so Lamberti decided to purchase and open more stores, concentrating on towns of less than 5, 000 population ( a variation on the tactic used in the early success of Wal-Mart ).

The Maya had historically employed ambush and raiding as their preferred tactic, and its employment against the Spanish proved troublesome for the Europeans.

With 1949 being an election year, Chifley wanted to demonstrate his Government's anti-communist resolve, but the tactic proved insufficient and the Menzies Government was elected in December 1949.

This tactic proved successful and d ' Estaing's ships managed to escape the superior force causing considerable damage to three of the British ships.

Schiltron-like formations were also used by the Welsh troops at the battles of Orewin Bridge ( 1282 ) and Maes Moydog ( 1295 ), although this tactic was generally unsuccessful for the Welsh.

This tactic, however, was unsuccessful.

In his first season with the Reds, Beckley was unsuccessful in getting rookie Honus Wagner out with the hidden ball trick, a tactic he had been known to use against the opposition.

If Norquay hoped to silence the strongest opposition voice by this tactic, he was unsuccessful: Greenway won the riding by 330 votes to 244.

The Dutch employed their favourite tactic of disabling enemy vessels by firing at their masts and rigging with chain shot ; at the end of the afternoon Ayscue, feeling rather unsupported, decided to break off the unsuccessful engagement and to retreat to Plymouth to repair his ships before any became so damaged they would be captured.

Regulatory Arbitrage was used for the first time in 2005 when it was applied by Scott V. Simpson, a partner at law firm Skadden, Arps, to refer to a new defence tactic in hostile mergers and acquisitions where differing takeover regimes in deals involving multi-jurisdictions are exploited to the advantage of a target company under threat.

Leg theory can be a moderately successful tactic when used with both fast bowling and spin bowling, particularly leg spin to right-handed batsmen or off spin to left-handed batsmen.

This tactic backfired when Darfur's choice, Muhammad Sharif, rejected Darfur and asserted his own authority.

However when combined with land mines, snipers, barbed wire, and air cover, crossfire became a difficult tactic to counter in the early 20th century.

Because wealth was imbedded in movable property, refuge was tolerated by neighbouring Shaikhs, and Britain intervened only when important interests were at stake, secession was an effective merchant tactic.

This tactic can be dangerous when parties are unwilling to back down and go through with the extreme measure.

With the advent of limited overs cricket promoting more adventurous batting styles and the use of ever heavier bats this style of bowling has declined, although some off-spinners will still use this tactic when the pitch is offering very little or no turn.

" Phil Cousineau noted that " his own innovation — the tactic of pacing himself with a stopwatch — both inspired and troubled people in an era when the robot was becoming symbolic of the modern soulless human being.

The committee accepted this tactic when they reported in February 1668.

* Infantry square, a military tactic used by infantry when threatened by cavalry

Similarly, laws of warfare prohibit combatants from using civilian settlements, populations or facilities as military bases, but when an inferior power uses this tactic, it depends on the premise that the superior power will respect the law that the other is violating, and will not attack that civilian target, or if they do the propaganda advantage will outweigh the material loss.

The tactic of drive-by shooting originated when assailants would ride up to their targets on horseback, shoot them with wheellock pistols and then ride off before they could be apprehended.

:;… when using weak bowlers: If a relatively poor bowler must bowl for any reason, the best tactic is often to limit the potential damage by containing the free scoring of runs.

Other Custer supporters have claimed that splitting the forces was a standard tactic, so as to demoralize the enemy with the appearance of the cavalry in different places all at once, especially when a contingent threatened the line of retreat.

According to Alan Pollack, the " approach-avoidance tactic " is encountered in the verse, as the V chord ( for example E in A key ) appearing on the words " Always know ", " I know when " " I think a No " and " I think I disagree ") never resolves into a I chord ( A in A key )) directly as expected.

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.

However, when matched against modern weaponry such as automatic firearms, artillery and aircraft, a human wave attack is an extremely dangerous and costly tactic in the face of devastating firepower.

* Swapping of ball-A tactic often employed when the batsman at the crease is considered by the majority of the participating players to be of an irritating nature, rude, ugly or to possess any feature which the bowler dislikes.

The increasing appearance of numbers in that sequence derived from Silverman's use of a similar tactic when he had to develop a set design for the play The Adding Machine.

Don Cholito became Agrelot's alter ego, despite his mock protests that Agrelot and Don Cholito were not the same person ( a tactic later used by Sunshine Logroño when referring to his own comedic characters ).

In this case the tactic maintained some proportionality by bypassing the 5 % threshold, but is largely disfavoured by the public due to it awarding smaller parties extra list seats while parties with a higher party vote percentage that don't win an electorate receive no seats ( this occurred in 2008 when ACT was awarded 5 seats on the back of one electorate seat and 3. 7 % of the party vote, while New Zealand First with no electorate seats and 4. 1 % of the party vote were awarded none.

This tactic is much less effective in those German states which add " balance seats "; since those states maintain full proportionality even when a party wins too many constituency seats.

Because the decisive moment of the battle occurred when the Austrian flagship the Erzherzog Ferdinand Max successfully sank the Italian flagship Re d ' Italia by ramming, in subsequent decade every navy in the world largely focused on ramming as the main tactic.