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tactic and succeeded
The tactic was enormously successful, and Parnell and his MPs succeeded in, for a time, forcing Parliament to take the Irish question of return to self-government seriously.
This tactic succeeded, but one torpedo hit Pola, which had nearly stopped in order to avoid running into Fiume and could not take avoiding action.
Due to the fractured nature of the opposition, Éamon de Valera's tactic of calling a snap general election had succeeded, as it had in 1933 and 1938.
The entryist tactic he proposed could not be implemented in many countries and succeeded only to some extent in countries where a large social-democratic party could be ' entered '.
The tactic succeeded and the exposed Chinese were soon swept off the position, while the dug-in Canadians escaped unharmed.
This tactic only succeeded in making him unpopular.
Milošević had in the past succeeded in persuading the public that his political opponents were traitors working for foreign interests, but in the case of Otpor !, the tactic largely backfired, as the beatings and imprisonments of their members during the summer of 2000 only further cemented the decision to vote against the regime in many voters ' minds.
This tactic effectively succeeded in wearing down the government forces.
This tactic had succeeded in the Nine Years ' War that had ended in 1603.
Once rights-of-way had been granted, N & W President Lucius E. Johnson ( who had succeeded Frederick J. Kimball ) tried a different tactic to block ( or at least slow construction and increase costs ) on the Tidewater Railway.
For once the French tactic of a large frontal cavalry assault had succeeded, with decisive results.
The tactic succeeded, and the Hōjō foiled the siege.
Using this tactic, Trakeena succeeded in destroying the Stratoforce and Centaurus Megazords, though in the process lost her whole army.
The Houston campaign succeeded with the help of prominent allies in the community, a common tactic used by the SEIU.

tactic and Spartan
His innovative strategy at Leuctra allowed him to defeat the vaunted Spartan phalanx with a smaller force, and his decision to refuse his right flank was the first recorded instance of such a tactic.
Anticipating the standard Spartan tactic of flanking enemy armies with their right wing, Epaminondas concentrated his forces on his own left wing, directly opposite the strongest spartiate phalanx led by Cleombrotus.

tactic and King
The nonviolent influence of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. upon Biko is then suspect, as Biko knew that for his struggle to give rise to physical liberation, it was necessary that it exist within the political realities of the apartheid regime, and Biko's nonviolence may be seen more as a tactic than a personal conviction.
However, the Gothic King had another delaying tactic.
Carmichael saw nonviolence as a tactic as opposed to a principle, which separated him from moderate civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr .. Carmichael became critical of civil rights leaders who simply called for the integration of African Americans into existing institutions of the middle class mainstream.
His grandfather had adopted a similar tactic, styling himself Juan, Count of Barcelona ; using the title of King of Spain would have been seen as directly subersive to the dictatorship of General Franco.
From the perspective of Velazquez, Cortés lacked the authority to execute his plan, however, Cortés used the same legal tactic used by the Governor when he invaded Cuba: he created a local government and had himself elected as the magistrate, thus ( in theory ) making him responsible to the King of Spain.

tactic and I
This tactic came to prominence in World War I.
The tactic of using overlapping arcs of fire came to prominence during World War I where it was a feature of trench warfare.
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.
On a trip to Constantinople he gave a custom-engraved and gold inlaid revolver to the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Abdülmecid I, informing him that the Russians were buying his pistols, thus securing a Turkish order for 5, 000 pistols ; he neglected to tell the Sultan he had used the same tactic with the Russians to elicit an order.
Devlin stood on the slogan " I will take my seat and fight for your rights " – signalling her rejection of the traditional Irish republican tactic of abstentionism ( being absent from Westminster ).
This position was accepted by the majority of the members of the PCd ’ I, but it was to bring them into conflict with the Comintern when in 1921 the latter adopted a new tactic: that of the ' united front ' with reformist organisations to fight for reforms and even to form a ' workers ' government '.
Cramer said that he should have demanded more debates and rebuffed the walking tactic: " I never could get that turned around.
" However, Salon. com reported a statement from Cheney press aide Cathie Martin regarding advice she says she offered when the Bush administration had to respond to charges that it manipulated pre-Iraq War intelligence: " I suggested we put the vice president on Meet the Press, which was a tactic we often used.
In consultation with attorney Melvin Belli, Sarria countered this tactic by distributing labels to his fellow drag queens ( hand-made, in the shape of a black cat's head ) that read " I am a boy ".
moment for other coaches, and I expect it will be the league's most widely copied tactic next year.

tactic and returned
The second round began with both boxers trading punches but De la Hoya quickly returned to his previous tactic, which he employed in the third round.
* In France, in July 2009, " trou du cul du web " ( eng :" The Asshole of the Internet ") returned as the first result the official website of French president Nicolas Sarkozy ; in September 2010, the same tactic resulted in President Sarkozy's Facebook page being the first result.
He thought that the Labour Party government had returned to the pre-war negligence of the Norwegian defence, and that it was a " tactic " by the " communists " in order to allow the Soviet Union to grow itself stronger.
For his next crop of regulars, Michaels returned to his original tactic of assembling a strong ensemble of relative unknowns, led by Dana Carvey, Phil Hartman, Jan Hooks, Victoria Jackson, and Kevin Nealon.
They said they did that in the hopes of getting public concerts booked easier, but this tactic did not work, and they soon returned to being a racist skinhead band.
The company returned to the tactic of issuing press releases in the form of the Ozmapolitan, the supposed newspaper of the Emerald City.

tactic and at
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.
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.
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.
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.
In England, at around the same time Fred Root was one of the main proponents of the same tactic.
Reports of the controversy reaching England at the time described the bowling as fast leg theory, which sounded to many people to be a harmless and well-established tactic.
They chose to abandon the old tactic of stopping the enemy at the beach.
Dio Cassius describes this surprise tactic employed by Aulus Plautius against the " barbarians "— the British Celts — at the battle of the River Medway, 43:
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.
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 ).
The feigned retreat, next to unknown in Western Europe at that time — it was a traditionally eastern tactic — required both extraordinary discipline on the part of the troops and exact timing on the part of their commander.
This letter makes it clear that his equivocation on evolution was, at least at first, a deliberate tactic.
Instead of maneuvering to ram, which was the standard naval tactic at the time, corvus equipped ships would maneuver alongside the enemy vessel, deploy the bridge which would attach to the enemy ship through spikes on the end of the bridge, and send legionaries across as boarding parties.
The campaign's tactic was that councils whose budgets were restricted would refuse to set any budget at all for the financial year 1985-86, requiring the Government to intervene directly in providing local services, or to concede.
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.
The occasional short-pitched ball aimed at the batsman ( a bouncer ) has never been illegal and is still in widespread use as a tactic.
The situation escalated into a diplomatic incident between the countries as the MCC — supported by the British public and still of the opinion that their fast leg theory tactic was harmless — took serious offence at being branded " unsportsmanlike " and demanded a retraction.
* Salt ( union organizing ), a labor union tactic involving the act of getting a job at a specific workplace with the intent of organizing a union
Richard Stallman's account claims Symbolics engaged in a business tactic in which it forced MIT to make all fixes and improvements to the Lisp Machine OS available only to it, and thereby choke off its competitor LMI, which at that time had insufficient resources to independently maintain or develop the OS and environment.
However, the construction of a sloping talus at the base of a castle wall ( as was common in Crusader fortification ) could have reduced the effectiveness of this tactic to an extent.
William Wallace drew up his schiltrons in a circle at the Battle of Falkirk in 1298 to deter charging cavalry, but it was a widespread tactic, sometimes known as the " crown " formation.
By calling on the dramatic tactic of violent protest that was being used by other oppressed groups, the events at the Stonewall implied that homosexuals had as much reason to be disaffected as they.

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