Make believe democracy and elections were part of a diversionary tactic that perpetuated Puerto Rico's colonial status, served the interests of the colonial power and destroyed Puerto Rican society.

That tactic may be working.

Rather than admit defeat, US officials are resorting to diversionary rhetoric.

But his tactic could easily backfire.

Instead, they are resorting to diversionary tactics by engaging in overblown rhetorical battles about minor controversies.

This tactic has proven to be a two edged sword.

Without the political will to find common ground, the continual friction of tactic and counter tactic only creates suspicion and hatred and vengeance, and perpetuates the cycle of violence.

Year two learned a few things had to change my tactic.

At first, this seemed to be the British government s chosen tactic.

LONDON Shorting is a tactic well known among the financial cognoscenti.

This tactic worked once, they argue, and it will work again.

Is this just another stalling tactic, or an opening to real reform?

The WTO is supposed to prevent these trade diversionary agreements, but so far no case has been successfully brought.

This model includes a diversionary Jobs First program, which refers people to employment programs before they apply for income support.

If so, it is a tactic that can work only until the next attack.

(a) Diversionary police based pre trial programmes such programmes are particularly effective in cases involving juveniles in conflict with the law

So the regime is making a fatal error if it thinks that its old diversionary tactics will continue to provide it with immunity.

On the contrary, these memos make clear that torture was a tactic formulated in minute detail.

The new tactic of having the B 25 strafe ships would be tried in this battle.

In addition to more conventional methods of raising money, hostage taking is an established terrorist tactic.

Then there is the simple tactic of restricting your options in advance, when you have the strength.

Indeed, the most popular tactic among liberals nowadays is to unite with all opponents of the regime.

It is a sadistic and cruel tactic, designed to terrorize hundreds of thousands inside their own homes.

The assault started with a diversionary attack on one end of the base, with the main militant force attacking the other end of the compound.

Since 2007, many of the cartels victims have been decapitated a tactic clearly aimed at intimidating their enemies.

While populists might be particularly prone to advocating facile solutions, they hardly have a monopoly on that tactic.

These purchases would need Treasury support, since this tactic is in effect a fiscal policy, not a monetary policy.

In Saigon, several demonstrators who were prevented from assembling used a different tactic they dispersed their messages on motorcycle.

The servicemen in the Karabakh forces who were on duty noted the actions of the Azerbaijani intelligence diversionary group and took the necessary steps to neutralize it.

Despite this pressure tactic, the treaty remains a slow burner as India continues its efforts of domestic political consensus building.

Recent violence has hampered assistance efforts, and we have seen a shocking new tactic the deliberate targeting of humanitarian personnel.

Instead, using an old Soviet tactic, Putin has imposed informal price controls, which cannot hold for long in a privatized economy.

Perhaps the paranoid style in public debate, focusing on motives rather than substance, is a useful defensive tactic against rabid critics.

In 2005, more than 125 Coalition troops were killed, while suicide bombing emerged as a new and increasingly common tactic of the insurgency.

Using the energy weapon, however, is not just a tactic it is at the heart of the prevailing doctrine guiding Russian foreign policy.

Note that it is the same language and tactic that Israelis have used since 1948 to justify their ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.

Domestic and international conflicts have taken advantage of women's unequal position and use violence and exploitation as common forms of military tactic and strategy.

But the Cameron government s approach is more sinister than the old right wing tactic of taking aim at disciplines that can be derided as effete.

Natan Sharansky said that this tactic the West tracking and demanding accountability for the treatment of individual internal dissenters helped break up the Soviet Union.

This tactic, however, was unable to withstand Barcelona for long, and Mataró gave in and allowed Fàbregas to train with Barcelona one day per week.

(b) Diversionary programmes under the aegis of the prosecution branch the exercise of discretion by the prosecution can save precious court resources to the benefit of victims, who receive apologies and reparation (where appropriate)

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.

The current government s tactic of muddling through without changing the political system or the structure of the economy is fraught with the risk of gradual decline.

Among the people is he who buys diversionary talk that he may lead people astray from Allah s way without any knowledge , and he takes it in derision . For such there is a humiliating punishment .

Among the people is he who buys diversionary talk that he may lead people astray from Allah s way without any knowledge , and he takes it in derision . For such there is a humiliating punishment .