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.

This tactic was outlawed by an 1832 state law which prohibited worker contracts from lasting more than ten years.

This tactic is prohibited in some other countries, for example in the United Kingdom the prosecutor's code states:

Gentlemen's agreements were a widely-used discriminatory tactic reportedly more common than restrictive covenants in " preserving " the homogeneity of upper-class neighborhoods and suburbs in the United States.

* In the United States, public affairs dealing with US military contacts during the beginning of the War in Iraq used a spin tactic.

It sought to undermine the proportionality rules of the Italian Additional Member System of elections by running many of its constituency candidates under a decoy list called Abolizione Scorporo, a title which explicitly stated its opposition to the counting rules ; its tactic largely worked because it had more support than the centre-left United in the Olive Tree alliance.

The first recorded use of the tactic in United States of America was in 1989 at a protest at the Pentagon.

The similar tactic of disappearing quorum ( refusing to vote although physically present on the floor ) was used by the minority to block votes in the United States House of Representatives until 1890.

Throughout 1935 the Workers Party of the United States was deeply divided over the " entryism " tactic called for by the " French Turn ," and a bitter debate swept the organization.

The aggressive tactic prompted United States President Bill Clinton to invoke the Taiwan Relations Act and dispatch an aircraft carrier into the region off Taiwan's southern coast to monitor the situation.

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 ".

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.

On November 1, 2007, President George W. Bush visited Heritage to defend his appointment of Michael Mukasey to succeed Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General of the United States ; Mukasey's nomination faced opposition in the U. S. Senate over the nominee's refusal to label the interrogation tactic of waterboarding as illegal.

Barker also supported United Activists for Animal Rights, and together with the group, publicly accused several media projects and the American Humane Association of animal mistreatment or the condoning of animal mistreatment, a tactic which resulted in a major lawsuit against him and the group, accusing him of spurious allegations.

Carpooling first became prominent in the United States as a rationing tactic during World War II.

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

Tengen ( an Atari Games subsidiary ) took a different tactic: the corporation obtained a description of the code in the lockout chip from the United States Patent and Trademark Office by claiming that it was required to defend against present infringement claims in a legal case.

If remains to be seen in the United Kingdom whether providing evidence to Select Committees is a more effective tactic than performing publicity stunts.

* Wolfpack ( naval tactic ), a system of submarine warfare used by the United States Navy and Germany during World War II

The tactic is also widely practiced in schools in states along the West Coast of the United States, where earthquakes are commonplace.

In modern Canadian political discourse, the idea of Canada becoming the " 51st state " of the United States is much more often used as a scare tactic against political courses of action that may be seen as too " Americanizing ".

The United States government has, at least since the Bush administration, used the tactic of legal rendition in which suspected terrorists were extradited to countries where they were to be prosecuted for crimes allegedly committed.

" Echeloning " is the name of a tactic in use by the United Kingdom's Armed forces, mainly the Infantry.

The Soviets had ensured the loyalty of Vietnam and Laos through an aggressive campaign of political, economic and military aid – the same tactic which allowed the Soviet Union to compete with the United States in a race to establish themselves as neocolonial rulers of newly independent states in Africa and the Middle East.

Some people have objected that the tactic violates the United States Constitution ; the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, part of the Bill of Rights, contains a provision against unreasonable search and seizure.