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It was the opinion of some of us that these must be part of the Committeemen who had been in the Battle of the North Bridge, which entitled them to a sort of veteran status, and we felt that if they employed this tactic, it was likely enough the best one.
The principal tactic in controlling the ball was giving it to Abner Haynes, the flashy halfback.
It was the prospect of bowling at this line-up that caused England's 1932 – 33 captain Douglas Jardine to adopt the tactic of fast leg theory, also known as Bodyline.
Jardine insisted that the tactic was legitimate and called it " leg theory " but it was widely disparaged by its opponents, who dubbed it " Bodyline " ( from " on the line of the body ").
Pilots and flight attendants were trained to adopt the " Common Strategy " tactic, which was approved by the FAA.
After the November 2000 G8 protest in Montreal, at which many protesters were beaten, trampled, and arrested in what was intended to be a festive protest, the tactic of dividing protests into " green " ( permitted ), " yellow " ( not officially permitted but with little confrontation and low risk of arrest ), and " red " ( involving direct confrontation ) zones was introduced.
The use of this tactic was initially a rarity in Western films, as up till then it was thought to look cumbersome.
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.
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.
However, such a tactic was not recorded as a stolen base, and modern rules forbid going backwards on the basepaths in order to " confuse the defense or make a travesty of the game ".
The French commanders were, however, divided as to how to utilise the Nebel: Tallard's tactic – opposed by Marsin and the Elector who felt it better to close their infantry right up to the stream itself – was to lure the allies across before unleashing their cavalry upon them, causing panic and confusion ; whilst the enemy was struggling in the marshes, they would be caught in crossfire from Blenheim and Oberglauheim.
In England, at around the same time Fred Root was one of the main proponents of the same tactic.
The Australian press dubbed the tactic Bodyline, and claimed it was a deliberate attempt by the English team to intimidate and injure the Australian players.
This tactic was effectively used by the early French Revolutionary Armies.
This tactic was usually used by civilizations that could not beat the enemy with ranged weaponry.
The old tactic of the banzai charge was also discontinued as wasteful of men and ineffective.
Those attacks combined with Maxime Weygand's Hedgehog tactic would become the major basis for responding to blitzkrieg attacks in the future: deployment in depth, permitting enemyor “ shoulders ” of a penetration was essential to channeling the enemy attack, and artillery, properly employed at the shoulders, could take a heavy toll of attackers.
Their preferred tactic was to avoid an open field battle, and to fight from the cover of a huge fortified camp.
This was not a regular prayer session for religious reasons but rather a scare tactic.

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Orkney, attacking from the rear, now tried a different tactic – "... it came into my head to beat parley ", he later wrote, " which they accepted of and immediately their Brigadier de Nouville capitulated with me to be prisoner at discretion and lay down their arms.
The Polish commanders were hoping to break into the Cossack ranks with an impetous charge of the famous Polish ' Winged ' Hussars-a tactic proven effective in many previous battles, including Kircholm, and Kłuszyn ( and which would later prove successful at the 1683 Battle of Vienna against the Turks ).
To gain Republican votes in Southern states, Hoover pioneered an electoral tactic later known as the " Southern Strategy ".
While in a prisoner of war camp, he formulated what he later called Rudeltaktik (" pack tactic ", commonly called " wolfpack ").
This tactic was used again later on as a method of crowd dispersal.
Norris did not take this tactic, dubbed as fear, uncertainty and doubt ( FUD ), lying down, and in an extensive antitrust lawsuit launched against IBM a year later, he eventually won a settlement valued at $ 80 million.
Maurice tried another tactic and three days later he was admitted into the palace with the city judges whom he won over to his side.
Mobutu later moved away from torture and murder, and switched to a new tactic, buying off political rivals.
Another tactic was to arrest and sometimes torture dissident members of the government, only to later pardon them and reward them with high office.
But the anarchist CNT command refused this tactic and later went to Mallorca.
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.
In the later rounds Trinidad tried to take the contest's offensive but his adversary managed to block most of his punches while continuing his previous tactic.
US Army sources have claimed that the human wave attack tactic was adapted by the Viet Minh, and later by the Viet Cong and the Vietnam People's Army during the Indochina Wars.
The padding tactic, adopted later, is also referred to as a padded bloc tactic.
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 ).
Oliver Cromwell, who arrived too late in the day to take part in the battle, later wrote disparagingly to John Hampden, " Your troopers are most of them old decayed servingmen and tapsters ; and their Royalists troopers are gentlemen's sons, younger sons and persons of quality ...." Not only were the Parliamentarian cavalry not so naturally accustomed to mounted action, but they were drilled in the Dutch tactic of firing pistols and carbines from the saddle, whereas under Rupert, the Royalist cavalry would charge sword in hand, relying on shock and weight.
Thach, who would later develop the Thach Weave aerial combat tactic, emphasized gunnery in his training.
The offside trap is a defensive tactic designed to " trap " the attacking team into an offside position, pioneered in the early twentieth century by Notts County and later adopted by influential Argentinian coach Osvaldo Zubeldía.
This delaying tactic was later known as " the Night of the Long Prawns ".
This tactic was later used in many cases in Normandy Campaign, for example in Battle for Caen.
He used this position to fill the force with his placemen, a tactic he would repeat in subsequent positions and which was a basis of his considerable political clout in later years.
The Marine was later cleared of any wrongdoing because the Marines had been warned that the enemy would sometimes feign death and booby-trap bodies as a tactic to lure Marines to their deaths.
Although party leader Jim Cannon later hinted that the entry of the Trotskyists into the Socialist Party had been a contrived tactic aimed at stealing " confused young Left Socialists " for his own organization, it seems that at its inception, the entryist tactic was made in good faith.

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