She is worried that it could be a new tactic to silence criticism in Singapore It's bizarre that Facebook would remove a post about police powers and due process in Singapore because it violates community standards what standards have been violated here?

Conservatives, for their part, think of Liberals as combining sanctimoniousness with hard ball electoral tactics.

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

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

The public also knows that bureaucrats will use any tactic to ensure inertia, and hence their own survival.

Serzh went even further by suggesting that provoking the crowd into attacking the activists was a deliberate tactic of the organization that dispatched them

Meanwhile, Russia s troubles remain hidden behind the strong arm tactics and oil bloated coffers of Putin s autocratic bureaucracy.

It is now possible to speak of moving from a dishonest peace process tainted by violent ambushes and stalling tactics toward real peace.

Islamists view their acts of random mass murder not as a personal publicity stunt, but as a tactic in a holy war against the decadent, sinful West.

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

In his foreign policy, too, Sarkozy seems to combine the right intuitions with the wrong tactics that is, when his entire strategy is not marred by the pursuit of contradictory objectives.

These have become a common scare tactics in stifling media, and particularly independent outlets like Fokus, known for its critical investigative reporting on political institutions and lawmakers.

In a news thread within the headlines section of popular Chinese social media site Weibo, some referred to the situation as white terror , a tactic to instigate fear and keep people in silence

Churchill and Roosevelt did not lie to the international community about the threat of fascism, construct an artificial coalition of the willing, or employ violence without accountability these were the tactics of their totalitarian enemies.

BERLIN Pacifist doctrines may say otherwise, but combining diplomacy with the threat of military force is a highly effective tactic, as we have just seen in Syria.

Therefore, its focus should be less on calibrating tactics per se than on recasting the regional context in which Iran s leaders will determine whether to proceed or desist.

Indeed, given the hard bargains that China has been driving during Putin s desperate search for alternative buyers, threatening to cut exports to Europe has proven to be an exceedingly unwise tactic.

Concerned by Bashir s delaying tactics, both Kenya and Uganda have advised their southern Sudanese friends not to make demarcation of the border a pre condition for the referendum, as doing so would only play into Bashir s hands.

From time to time Arab negotiators enter into discussions about the mundane issues that prospective neighboring states would need to resolve, such as political boundaries, security arrangements, and economic relations. It is possible that at some point the Arabs will agree among themselves that the creation of a Palestinian state that claims to be committed to peaceful coexistence with Israel will be a useful tactic.

Indeed, he even angered the United States, Taiwan s only military protector, by his frequent confrontational tactics, such as pushing Taiwan towards independence, which runs counter to America s longstanding One China policy.

It is possible that at some point the Arabs will agree among themselves that the creation of a Palestinian state that claims to be committed to peaceful coexistence with Israel will be a useful tactic.

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Recall that Turkey made its first application to join in 1959, and that since 1963, the European Economic Community, the forerunner to today s EU, responded with a delaying tactic a request for a customs agreement.

In an anonymous leak to a major financial news service, an ECB official falsely maintained that unanimity was needed for a rate hike, implying a single dove could stop it. Infuriated by what he considered to be guerilla tactics, Trichet effectively silenced the mischief makers by the bold stroke of pre announcing the rate hike two weeks before the meeting.

Indeed, he even angered the United States, Taiwan s only military protector, by his frequent confrontational tactics, such as pushing Taiwan towards independence, which runs counter to America s longstanding One China policy.

Infuriated by what he considered to be guerilla tactics, Trichet effectively silenced the mischief makers by the bold stroke of pre announcing the rate hike two weeks before the meeting.

They're talking about the decision of why they don't go shoot one thing that turns out to be a great business tactic in the gang, if you go and just shoot in the air just shoot guns in the other gang's territory all the people are afraid to go buy their drugs there.

Wrong footing the United States and the West may be good tactics in the short term, but there seems to be no long term vision of the purposes that Russian power is supposed to serve, other than to preserve the power of Russia s elites.

But sport was somehow different. There, it was just letting off steam, no different from cheering or booing or it was a legitimate tactic, no different from needling an opponent by challenging his manhood.