I soon found, too, that he had no ideas whatever on the value of discretion, and it was only by repeated threats of absolute failure that I prevented our secret tactics from becoming the property of his sporting fraternity and of the town.
Suddenly the full significance of the Celebrity's tactics struck Mr. Cooke, and he reached out and caught hold of Mr. Trevor's coattails.
It may be imagined that the revolutionary Socialists have never approved these tactics of Mr. Berger's and do so less to-day than ever.
Mr. Debs admits the need of revolutionary tactics as well as revolutionary principles and even says: "We could better succeed with reactionary principles and revolutionary tactics than with revolutionary principles and reactionary tactics.
But I have also noted that his tactics and philosophy, as both he and they have publicly acknowledged, are alike at many points.
If they cannot judge such concrete and separate questions, how will they control Socialist officials who, as it is now, so often build their programs and decide their tacticsfor them?
That such desertions must inevitably result from the looseness taught by "reformist" tacticsis evident.
Then suddenly he adopted the same tactics as his opponent, and pressed him so hotly that he was, several times, obliged to give ground.
Their tactics have in nowise changed, then," the earl said, "since the days of Griffith and Llewellyn.
His tactics were the tactics he had previously and many times employed, and always with brilliant success.
He sees obvious mistakes being made, wrong tactics being adopted, the wrong sides chosen, and he longs to interfere.
He could not fathom the tactics of the executive, the youth was forced to confess, for their movements seemed planned to circumvent each other.
The loyalists there who had howled over the loss of Enniscorthy, and were still in the dark as to the tactics of the Executive, grew furious.
Decent people are so furious at the tactics of Lord Clare, that even the militia are dying to turn against the Government.
Their Practices Haven't Changed= Some new tactics have been adopted, as we have seen.
The conciliatory diplomatic tactics of Stalin's successors have sometimes been called a "peace offensive," but the term is hardly justified.
Thus the year which saw the Kremlin's new trading tactics was also the year that saw a slump of about 16 percent in the dollar value of its trade with the free world.
To study Soviet trends and tactics is obviously important to the economic defense of the free world.
But even many tactics have more of an old look than a new.
The time, however, was approaching when a change of tactics became imperative on account of the enemy having learnt his lesson.
This system of tactics can be graphically illustrated as follows (see Diagram 16).
Indifferent as were the German tank tactics as compared with our own, one fact was most striking, this being that the British infantry no more than the German would or could withstand a tank attack.
Before the infantry assembled for training a new tactics had to be devised, not only to meet the conditions which would be encountered but to fit the limitations imposed upon the tank by it being able to carry only one tank fascine.
On account of the tacticswhich have to be adopted the advance is excessively slow.
The tactics of the German tanks simply consisted in the “mopping up” of strong points.
The tactics adopted in this counter-gun work are interesting.
It correctly visualised the Third Battle of Ypres, and the German artillery tacticsadopted during it.
She had almost surrendered when the tactics of the game called for her to protest and thus cover his retreat by making it the result of her protests.
Under the influence of this knowledge, Basine had pursued the usual tactics of the predatory male and, as a fillip to the unimaginative excitements of the night, obtained from his accomplice in sin the story of her life.
When these tactics failed, she would let loose upon the poor king a flood of gutter language, roundly abusing him, turning the air blue with her profanity, and in other ways showing her inalienable right to a place in court circles.
For, cave-man tactics of "wooing by capture" were still more or less in vogue.
These tacticsdecided upon, the hunters mounted to the plain, enthusiastic and sanguine.
While at the rendezvous at Rushville and on the march to the front Lincoln of course drilled his men, and gave them such meager instruction in militarytactics as he could impart.
You don't seem the kind of girl to adopt Wild West tactics and to carry a pistol around with you here in peaceful Florida.
Army corps, headquarters, strategy and tactics were words that meant nothing to me.
The Wandl defensive tactics were necessary; they feared a widespread encounter.
The first tactics of the Wandl commanders surprised me.
Later, we learned that Anita and Venza had tried much the same tactics on Meka that we had used on Wyk, but their task was more difficult.
As it occurred this was precisely what they did, giving Admiral Dewey opportunity to put into practice tactics which it seems he had studied for months in anticipation of exactly such an emergency.
Chiefly by his own energetic exertions, this force was ready for service in April; and by June the crews were drilled and disciplined, and the commanders schooled in the tactics of squadron evolutions.
Great diligence was used by both parties in bringing men down, but the tactics on the whole were better on our side, and we had fewer truants in proportion to our numbers.
The tactics of giving the ministers a fair trial prevailed and were faithfully adhered to, Graham and Cardwell taking their own course.
That these would be cool toward the cabinet may have been expected, but no man had imagined that they would present so stubborn an opposition and such adroit tactics as they did.
Organized tactics as much characterized the invaders as personal valor and individual combat did the defending warriors.
His change of tactics left my march on the 10th practically unmolested, and we quietly encamped that night on the south bank of the South Anna, near Ground Squirrel Bridge.
Was it still following the tacticsof Frederick II.
No," said he, "I do not understand the tactics of barricade fighting.
These men, whose tacticswe understood later on, did not even appear to see us.
This was apparently one of the results of the attempt then being made to improve the fleet tactics in view of the unsatisfactory results of the earlier actions of the war[313].
The very primitive tactics in use at this period in northern waters called for none but the most primitive signals.
It was the soldier-admirals, who were well acquainted with the value of formal tactics on shore, who taught the English navy the lesson it was so loath to learn.
The proper stimulus for the development of the art of fleet tactics can only be supplied by the collision of two maritime powers of fairly equal intelligence and resources.
Similarly, if the navy is not stagnating, continual amplification of tactics or of every-day details necessitates an increase in the range of conversation between the Admiral and his fleet.
The real reason undoubtedly was that the squadronal organisation of the days when squadronal colours were first invented had become obsolete, and changes in tactics had rendered the squadronal colours unnecessary.
His numbers would be inferior, but his tactics would aim at preventing the junction of the two armies opposed to him and beating them separately, in which event Belgium would to a certainty rise and join his cause.
It was their object to keep fast in these positions until succor could come from Lombardy; but Napoleon had no intention of giving them such a respite; his tactics were not those of other generals.
Mark my words, they will soon burn their books on tactics and know not what to do.
He was opposed, however, by generals who were well acquainted with his tactics but none of whom, except Blucher, was above mediocre in generalship.
