To be sure, if this new truce is merely technical, if efforts are not made to stabilize and consolidate it, it could become just one another in a long string of bitter episodes.

On the other hand, taking this historic initiative would, relative to fainthearted tactical maneuvering, substantially increase politicians chances of re election later.

China s Stability Gambit

Colombia s Peace Gambit

In part, this series of speeches was tactical.

I suspect that Cameron is playing a dangerous game for purely tactical, domestic reasons.

This is not a drill. It's not just the cluelessness of YouTube engineers. I promise.

The last such maneuver, Caucasus 2008, was followed by the invasion of Georgia.

And here you can see this parasite in action, like in an acrobatic maneuver.

Eleven Iraqi combat units were employed as independent manoeuvre elements during that operation.

For Sarkozy, rupture reflects both mundanely tactical and deeply personal choices.

In other cases consent is tacit or even irrelevant.

Singapore hosted a maritime interdiction exercise, code named Exercise Deep Sabre, from 15 to 19 August 2005, which involved a number of PSI countries as participants and observers.

The Third Plenum s use of decisive to anchor a market based approach is a similar gambit.

Instead, the West chose to pursue only a tactical relationship with Russia s post Soviet bureaucracy.

Its armed forces are set to field new tactical nuclear weapons short range battlefield weapons.

Lawyer Gamal Eid said he believed her release was part of a government maneuver to improve its image.

It's just creationism under another name, rechristened I choose the word advisedly for tactical, political reasons.

The Directorate of Terrorism (DGT), a division of the Intelligence Coordination for Prevention (CIP), conducts tactical and operational intelligence work to combat terrorism.

In any case, a temperature limit is obviously a political rather than a scientific statement.

His emergency technocratic government, supported by the left and right, was a masterstroke of outgoing President Giorgio Napolitano.

Caucasus 2012 will take place in North Caucasus region, and will involve 8,000 troops, as well as heavy machinery, artillery, navy, and air force.

After congratulating Mahinour, I believe that her release from prison is a political ploy by an oppressive regime. Mahinour will receive an international award next month.

Israel s latest operation in Gaza brought it no benefit, either tactical or strategic.

Operations Taxable, Glimmer and Big Drum were tactical military deceptions conducted on 6 June 1944 in support of the Allied landings in Normandy.

The gravity assist maneuver was first used in 1959 when the Soviet probe Luna 3 photographed the far side of Earth's Moon.

Kazakhstan welcomes the initiative to introduce a counter terrorism strategy that provides for the elimination of the causes of terrorism and its renunciation as a tactical means of attracting political attention.

China s opening gambit to compel the international community to recognize the existence of a dispute has been successful, and portends further disturbance of the status quo.

What is really needed is a change in vision and mentality a shift from viewing multilateralism as a tactic to embracing it as a strategic imperative.

This summer, for example, China and Russia conducted their first ever grand scale joint military exercise.

The science spacecraft, called Sancho, would arrive at the asteroid first and, after a rendezvous manoeuvre, would observe and measure the target asteroid over a period of several months.

Since nearly all schools are dependent on government subsidies, the grant of flexibility is widely perceived to be a tactical delay.

Silent Storm (Russian Операция Silent Storm) is a tactical role playing game ref for Microsoft Windows, developed by Russian developer Nival Interactive and published by JoWood in 2003.

The desire of Republicans to defeat the Democrats could lead them to use every maneuver to block votes and slow legislative reforms.

A Hayes maneuver (pressure applied below the umbilicus in cephalad and dorsal direction) elevates the root of the SMA, also slightly easing the constriction.

Sometimes we hear it said that States calling for developing a new international legal agreement on the non weaponization of space are doing this for tactical purposes.

Recently, in anticipation of a hypothetical confrontation with Iran, a major military maneuver the Juniper Cobra exercise was conducted to test Israel s integration into US ballistic missile defenses.

Little by little, you learn the names of the owners of the generators which supply your friends' homes, as you can't help but hear their screaming as they and their neighbours yell across the balconies every time the electricity goes off, or when there's a problem with the supply.

While the Russian invasion failed, it caused the diversion of German troops to the east, allowing the tactical Allied victory at the First Battle of the Marne.

OIOS noted cases where belligerents would try to confuse peacekeeping units through disinformation in order to gain tactical or material advantages.

In the de Stalinization era, which sought to undermine any achievements made during Stalin's regime, it was declared that the Stakhanovite movement was Stalin's propaganda maneuver.

The measures that it takes to protect its sovereignty and territorial integrity are not tactically motivated posturing but rather legal acts of self defence, recognized as such by the United Nations Charter.

The main benefit of these proposals is that they are more strategic than tactical better aligned with the balance sheet problems that are actually afflicting the economy.

MRAP funding has pulled money away from other tactical vehicle programs, most noticeably the HMMWV replacement, the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, which has been delayed by two years.

The German Soviet non aggression treaty, the so called Hitler Stalin pact, concluded in August 1939, had been supplemented by a secret appendix dividing the border states Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Romania into spheres of interest for the two parties.