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We've already been training in battlefield medicine, infantry skills, logistics, in tactical intelligence. – Defence Secretary Michael Fallon	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We believe the French military is just looking to have a force structure that gives them the tactical airlift that they need together with the strategic airlift that the A400M is providing, we're obviously happy to sell them some C-130s. – Orlando Carvalho	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There has been some initial contact with the French government, we believe the French military is just looking to have a force structure that gives them the tactical airlift that they need together with the strategic airlift that the A400M is providing. – Orlando Carvalho	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Today will witness the launch of some tactical operations that pave the way to the eventual liberation of Ramadi. – Jaffar Husseini	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Our task is to convince our partners that our undertakings are strategic, rather than tactical, and that our logic is sound. – Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Iran is taking strategic advantage of tactical decisions that are being made, initially with the proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon, recently propping up the government of Assad in Syria, and now, look at what is happening in Iraq. – Kirk Lippold	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It's an incoherent mix of people, helicopters and random kit from all sorts of different sources, but there is an element of internal cohesion from the Nigerian army, it appears to be a desperate ploy to get some sort of tactical success up there in six weeks for the electoral boost. – One Abuja-based diplomat	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
That's largely related to the inventory builds at Cushing – investors see an opportunity to take a tactical short. – Nitesh Shah	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Industrial metals prices have probably seen the bottom. They have been in a phase of stabilisation over the last few weeks. We assume that the downside pressure on basic resources shares has come to an end for now, we like miners from a tactical point of view as margins are recovering swiftly and valuations look relatively attractive. – Christian Stocker	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I suspect these reclamations would only ever have localised tactical uses in military terms. – Gary Li	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I suspect these reclamations would only ever have localized tactical uses in military terms. – Gary Li	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Sometimes they convey [ a ] message, [ a ] general message, but there's nothing tactical, there is no dialogue. There's, let's say, information, but not dialogue. – Syrian President Bashar Assad	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Sometimes, they convey a message, a general message, but there's nothing tactical, there is no dialogue. There's, let's say, information, but not dialogue. – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad	Found on CNN 9 years ago
I’m so happy to celebrate my 64th victory. It was not an easy race, as we saw with so many girls going out. There were lots of bumps. I had to ski aggressive and tactical at the same time, i was at my limits just like yesterday only this time it paid off. I was lucky. – American Vonn	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It’s a tactical move to try to protect jobs in Washington state, if( the union) gets in, jobs in Washington will be more important because union dues are required there. – Patrick Semmens	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The role of NSA surveillance -- that has been questioned as something that might infringe on our own freedom of speech, but I think this attack underlines that the real threat to freedom of speech are the terrorists, they are murdering cartoonists and journalists, usually attacks go forward and are carried out due to a lack of human intelligence or a lack of tactical analysis … and that was the failure point in pretty much every terror attack I investigated. – David Adesnik	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Usually attacks go forward and are carried out due to a lack of human intelligence or a lack of tactical analysis … and that was the failure point in pretty much every terror attack I investigated. – Fred Burton	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The effect of the ambulance-chasing lawyers and the play-it-safe judges is that we have got to the point where we have lost our operational capability to do tactical questioning. That in itself brings risks to the lives of the people we deploy, these insurgents are not nice people. These are criminals. They behead people ; they keep sex slaves. They are not normal people. – Tim Collins	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
For now, the U.S. is acting on the Pakistani promise that if the Pakistan army's enemies are eliminated, Pakistan will help reconcile the Afghan Taliban, the spike in attacks against al Qaeda does mean closer U.S.-Pakistan tactics. But it's tactical moves, not a deeper strategic shift ... Overall trust is still low. – Raheel Sharif	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I feel that we will continue to have a non-violent movement, and we will continue to find the vast majority of Negroes committed to non-violence, at least as the best tactical approach and from a pragmatic point of view as the best strategy in dealing with the problem of racial injustice. Realism impels me to admit, however, that when there is justice and the pursuit of justice, violence appears, and where there is injustice and frustration, the potentialities for violence are greater, and I would like to strongly stress the point that the more we can achieve victories through non-violence, the more it will be possible to keep the non-violent discipline at the center of the movement. But the more we find individuals facing conditions of frustration, conditions of disappointment and seething despair as a result of the slow pace of things and the failure to change conditions, the more it will be possible for the apostles of violence to interfere. – Martin Luther King, Jr.	added by anonymous 10 years ago
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack. – Lois McMaster Bujold	added by anonymous 14 years ago

We've already been training in battlefield medicine, infantry skills, logistics, in tactical intelligence.

– Defence Secretary Michael Fallon

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We believe the French military is just looking to have a force structure that gives them the tactical airlift that they need together with the strategic airlift that the A400M is providing, we're obviously happy to sell them some C-130s.

– Orlando Carvalho

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There has been some initial contact with the French government, we believe the French military is just looking to have a force structure that gives them the tactical airlift that they need together with the strategic airlift that the A400M is providing.

– Orlando Carvalho

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Today will witness the launch of some tactical operations that pave the way to the eventual liberation of Ramadi.

– Jaffar Husseini

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Our task is to convince our partners that our undertakings are strategic, rather than tactical, and that our logic is sound.

– Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Iran is taking strategic advantage of tactical decisions that are being made, initially with the proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon, recently propping up the government of Assad in Syria, and now, look at what is happening in Iraq.

– Kirk Lippold

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It's an incoherent mix of people, helicopters and random kit from all sorts of different sources, but there is an element of internal cohesion from the Nigerian army, it appears to be a desperate ploy to get some sort of tactical success up there in six weeks for the electoral boost.

– One Abuja-based diplomat

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

That's largely related to the inventory builds at Cushing – investors see an opportunity to take a tactical short.

– Nitesh Shah

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Industrial metals prices have probably seen the bottom. They have been in a phase of stabilisation over the last few weeks. We assume that the downside pressure on basic resources shares has come to an end for now, we like miners from a tactical point of view as margins are recovering swiftly and valuations look relatively attractive.

– Christian Stocker

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I suspect these reclamations would only ever have localised tactical uses in military terms.

– Gary Li

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I suspect these reclamations would only ever have localized tactical uses in military terms.

– Gary Li

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Sometimes they convey [ a ] message, [ a ] general message, but there's nothing tactical, there is no dialogue. There's, let's say, information, but not dialogue.

– Syrian President Bashar Assad

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Sometimes, they convey a message, a general message, but there's nothing tactical, there is no dialogue. There's, let's say, information, but not dialogue.

– Syrian President Bashar al-Assad

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I’m so happy to celebrate my 64th victory. It was not an easy race, as we saw with so many girls going out. There were lots of bumps. I had to ski aggressive and tactical at the same time, i was at my limits just like yesterday only this time it paid off. I was lucky.

– American Vonn

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It’s a tactical move to try to protect jobs in Washington state, if( the union) gets in, jobs in Washington will be more important because union dues are required there.

– Patrick Semmens

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The role of NSA surveillance -- that has been questioned as something that might infringe on our own freedom of speech, but I think this attack underlines that the real threat to freedom of speech are the terrorists, they are murdering cartoonists and journalists, usually attacks go forward and are carried out due to a lack of human intelligence or a lack of tactical analysis … and that was the failure point in pretty much every terror attack I investigated.

– David Adesnik

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Usually attacks go forward and are carried out due to a lack of human intelligence or a lack of tactical analysis … and that was the failure point in pretty much every terror attack I investigated.

– Fred Burton

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The effect of the ambulance-chasing lawyers and the play-it-safe judges is that we have got to the point where we have lost our operational capability to do tactical questioning. That in itself brings risks to the lives of the people we deploy, these insurgents are not nice people. These are criminals. They behead people ; they keep sex slaves. They are not normal people.

– Tim Collins

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

For now, the U.S. is acting on the Pakistani promise that if the Pakistan army's enemies are eliminated, Pakistan will help reconcile the Afghan Taliban, the spike in attacks against al Qaeda does mean closer U.S.-Pakistan tactics. But it's tactical moves, not a deeper strategic shift ... Overall trust is still low.

– Raheel Sharif

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I feel that we will continue to have a non-violent movement, and we will continue to find the vast majority of Negroes committed to non-violence, at least as the best tactical approach and from a pragmatic point of view as the best strategy in dealing with the problem of racial injustice. Realism impels me to admit, however, that when there is justice and the pursuit of justice, violence appears, and where there is injustice and frustration, the potentialities for violence are greater, and I would like to strongly stress the point that the more we can achieve victories through non-violence, the more it will be possible to keep the non-violent discipline at the center of the movement. But the more we find individuals facing conditions of frustration, conditions of disappointment and seething despair as a result of the slow pace of things and the failure to change conditions, the more it will be possible for the apostles of violence to interfere.

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

added by anonymous
10 years ago

A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.

– Lois McMaster Bujold

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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