"No one is a better tactician than Nancy Pelosi," Rep.
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Putin is a geopolitical rival and a very clever tactician.
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Dany simply isn't as great a tactician as she thinks.
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From the sideline, Kidd isn't viewed as a brilliant tactician.
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Mr. Ticer is quieter, gentler and more of a tactician.
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Mitch McConnell's reputation has always been that of a master tactician.
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But who knows — I would not underestimate McConnell as legislative tactician.
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He was in equal parts a ring tactician and a banger.
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But does a pocketful of pokeys necessarily make a fine tactician?
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Ainslie also enlisted Giles Scott as tactician on his catamaran "Rita".
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Putin is not a strategist; he's a reactive and opportunistic tactician.
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In DC's comic books, Batman is a master tactician and analyst.
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McMaster, a highly regarded military tactician, is known for challenging his superiors.
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But then, as a tactician you need to be aware of that.
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McConnell, a master tactician, will have his work cut out for him.
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Mr. McConnell's skill as a political tactician belies his low-key manner.
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Merkel, a master tactician, conceded just enough ground to calm her critics.
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Long before Trump entered politics, McConnell proved his worth as a tactician.
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Coach Hop, a respected tactician and recruiter, apparently got tired of waiting.
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Even the most skilled legislative tactician would find this political landscape difficult.
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"I've rarely seen a more determined and skilled tactician," Feingold told me.
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" She praised him as a "highly effective, brilliant tactician who gets things done.
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In addition to his improved serving, Nishikori, 26, is becoming a better tactician.
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He has success in entertainment," Ms. Conway said, calling him a "brilliant tactician.
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Turkish historian and writer Soner Cagaptay says it's because he's a masterful tactician.
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Mr. Sharon was both an experienced military man and a crafty political tactician.
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Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, has a reputation as a master tactician.
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"He's a masterful bureaucratic tactician," Waxman wrote in a Friday piece for Lawfare.
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Over the course of his career, Paul D. Ryan, the House speaker, has been described as a policy nerd, a lightweight, a canny tactician, a dreadful tactician, a man of principle and a man whose vertebrae have mysteriously gone missing.
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Mayweather, a master defensive technician and tactician, is heavily favored to win the Aug.
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Stevens, who also happened to be an accomplished bridge player, was a master tactician.
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After his first arrests, S.N.C.C. recruited him to be a tactician for the group.
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The other accusation against Mr van Gaal was that he was a boring tactician.
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I was always impressed with his leadership skills as he was a brilliant tactician.
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He was, though, an astute tactician, able to defy the odds and conjure miracles.
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Neither Shuler nor Ryan made much pretense of being a Pelosi-caliber legislative tactician.
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" So they've been saying, "Netanyahu as the master diplomatic tactician, that was all incorrect.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, for example, has made his reputation as tactician above all.
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In this role, Mora said the PAC's leadership can serve as both tactician and counselor.
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Steinmeier called Johnson an experienced party tactician who knew how to take advantage of euroscepticism.
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Mr Zygar portrays Mr Putin as a reactionary tactician rather than a nefarious grand strategist.
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This also robs us of watching a brilliant tactician at the peak of his powers.
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Van Hollen, by contrast, is widely trusted and believed to be an excellent legislative tactician.
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The death of Ray Stussy, meanwhile, has rejuvenated Nikki as a master strategist and tactician.
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Yet Klara turns out to be a canny, patient tactician for her friend's best interests.
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Roberts, a savvy tactician, appears to be strategically waiting until the political and judicial situation clarifies.
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Which doesn't mean that the game isn't effective at making you feel like a brilliant tactician.
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The apparent tone deafness from Mueller, who is by all accounts shrewd D.C. tactician, is surprising.
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I don't fancy myself a brilliant legislative tactician, and game theory was never my strongest subject.
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He is a shrewd politician and a parliamentary tactician who much prefers operating behind the scenes.
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Mr. Gove is regarded at Westminster as an adept tactician if not a reliable political ally.
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Our team of reporters traced how he went from icon to shrewd — some say "untethered" — tactician.
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"Putin is a brilliant tactician who has the capacity to detect weakness and exploit it," Bush said.
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"Erdogan is a tactician; sometimes he knows very well when to stop," says a former CHP politician.
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He was neither an innovator nor a great tactician, and not necessarily the most charismatic guy around.
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" Scott Jensen, a Republican political tactician and former speaker of the State Assembly, responded within minutes. "Yes.
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The British prime minister is more grim tactician now than "the clownish, cuddly fellow" of the past.
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Mr Putin has proved a cunning tactician in exploiting opportunities around the world at limited cost to Moscow.
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Mr Tsipras, an adroit backstage tactician, immediately called for a vote of confidence in his "new" minority government.
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INEOS said Ainslie would skipper the racing yacht, with fellow British Olympic gold medalist Giles Scott its tactician.
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He's also a genius-level tactician — making him an extremely formidable adversary for any one of DC's superheroes.
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But Mr. Cruz, known as a skilled tactician and debater, is still the clear favorite in the race.
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WASHINGTON — Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, has long enjoyed a reputation as a master tactician.
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From the first, he was known as a ruthless tactician, impatient with idealists and the weak of will.
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McCarthy doesn't quite have Ryan's policy chops, but he's well-known, well-liked and a skilled political tactician.
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Ms Koike, a shrewd tactician, has repeatedly humiliated the LDP, of which she used to be a senior member.
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Ainslie was drafted in late as tactician and helped overhaul a huge deficit to win the coveted "Auld Mug".
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His per-battle average was also lower than Alexander's but, on the whole, he was just a better tactician.
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The race cemented Mr. Cuomo's standing as both an unmatched force in New York politics and a merciless tactician.
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And my guess is that he'll once again be hailed as a great tactician for having pulled this off.
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" — LISAG in the South "It is clear at this point that Trump is not a shrewd tactician and politician.
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However, the Speaker praised his Senate counterpart, who has a reputation on Capitol Hill as a brilliant legislative tactician.
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The scion of a high-caste family, Shah had trained as a biochemist but excelled as a political tactician.
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Shrewd tactician Tsai may not be a natural politician, but she didn't become Taiwan's first female president by accident.
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Mr. Cuomo, a skillful tactician, is expected to use all kinds of carrots and sticks to get his way.
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He entered this job as a revolutionary defensive tactician, someone whose militaristic instructions could squeeze water from a brick.
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"The view of the Russian leader as a master tactician overlooks how his achievements risk blowing up in his face."
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The view of the Russian leader as a master tactician overlooks how his achievements risk blowing up in his face.
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McConnell is a savvier and more seasoned legislative tactician than Ryan, but Ryan had two advantages over his Senate counterpart.
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"If providing a platform for white supremacists makes me a brilliant tactician, I am proud to have lost," Palmieri said.
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Sansa proved exactly how much of a badass tactician she is these days, and the Hound showed his softer side.
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It also removed the cycling pedestal that the tactician Tom Slingsby had used to mimic the Kiwis' innovative power source.
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Conservatives and moderates had been fleeing from the bill, sure, but McConnell is revered in Washington as a master tactician.
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It was the most exciting knockout artist in the lower weightclasses versus a slick ring tactician—what could possibly go wrong?
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Described by a U.S. ambassador as a "brilliant tactician," Mugabe was regarded as one of the great survivors of international politics.
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"We go for it, with great belief and great determination to try to win the game," the master tactician told reporters.
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"There's a couple of bruises," SoftBank Team Japan's tactician Chris Draper said when asked in a television interview about the incident.
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He has won the cup before, as tactician with Oracle Team USA in their 2013 comeback against Emirates Team New Zealand.
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"If providing a platform for white supremacists makes me a brilliant tactician, I am proud to have lost," Jennifer Palmieri said.
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Many establishment leaders are not publicly calling for McMaster's resignation because they realize McMaster is an efficient operator and masterful tactician.
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At his best, McCarthy is a "skilled political tactician," said Kurt Bardella, a former Breitbart consultant and former spokesperson for Rep.
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" Kenin, 217, was not projected as a top 15 player, McEnroe said, but is a "brilliant tactician" with a "great backhand.
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Boies is among the highest-paid trial lawyers in America, a skillful courtroom tactician with a keen instinct for public opinion.
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Trump brought him on because he is a master at what he does, a campaign tactician, a delegate-counter, a manager.
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Ever the survivor, Mr. Zuma has remained in office despite a series of scandals that would have felled a lesser tactician.
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After spending too much of season 2 sidelined, Alex finally grows into the pragmatic, morally ambiguous tactician he was meant to be.
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But he's a great in-game leader, he's a great tactician, he knows how to activate players and [how to] use them.
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Trump was always at risk of being outplayed by Putin, who holds absolute control over his country and is a master tactician.
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The tactician Chris Draper of SoftBank Team Japan and other sailors from the weekend's World Series races are graduates of Turner's series.
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He can be quick in the moment, an impressive tactician, and he is often fairly blind to the long arcs of strategy.
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They describe him as a master tactician, focusing on one issue at a time, and extracting as many concessions as he can.
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Many of her critics ignored her skills as a political tactician and speculated that she must have slept her way to influence.
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Mitch McConnell, preeminent cut-throat political tactician, is going with a softer touch to salvage Brett Kavanaugh's suddenly endangered Supreme Court confirmation.
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And the prospect of facing off against an unflappable courtroom tactician like Harris should be keeping President Donald Trump awake at night, too.
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He also had generous words for opposite number Carlos Queiroz, a master tactician who has made Iran an extremely hard nut to crack.
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"To give the devil his due, he is a brilliant tactician," former U.S. ambassador Christopher Dell wrote in a cable released by WikiLeaks.
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IT IS A shame that so few Chinese remember General Bai Chongxi, a brilliant tactician during the war against Japan in 1937-45.
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He may be a very good tactician, a strategist in the moment of a battle, but the idea of planning his emotional development?
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A shrewd tactician, she spent 15 years as a trade negotiator before leading Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council, which handles issues with mainland China.
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But in addition to his apparent strengths as a man who puts out fires before they can touch anybody, he's also a spectacular tactician.
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But on TV, newly freed from the need to support Stannis, he's revealing all over again what a good tactician and adviser he is.
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Led by master tactician Jose Mourinho and a squad of adaptable players it is the Old Trafford side's tactical flexibility that is aiding them.
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After all, come hot season or cold, Sangmanee, the master tactician from Mancha Khiri, is still in the game and worth every Thai satang.
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Ginsburg, a keen tactician, knew that it would be particularly powerful if she could show that gender discrimination hurt men as well as women.
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You're just as much a tactician as you are a one-space-marine-army as you carve your own path to a given objective.
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He was a visual tactician who, along with his advisers, understood the power of the camera to expose the brutality and injustice of segregation.
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The brilliant tactician who led the amphibious assault at Inchon in 1950, MacArthur later clashed with Harry S. Truman, who fired him for insubordination.
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The race cemented both Mr. Cuomo's standing as an unmatched force in New York politics and a merciless tactician with little regard for diplomacy.
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As a master tactician, Chief Justice Roberts occasionally delivers narrow, partial wins to progressives when an overtly partisan ruling might undermine the court's legitimacy.
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Look at Russia's campaign in Syria, which shows that in the hands of a good tactician like President Vladimir Putin, military superiority produces results.
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Buchanan was no more inspired a political tactician than the average political scientist or economist, which is to say, not very inspired at all.
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That's not to deny that McConnell is a shrewd legislative tactician — he's an experienced politician and legislative leader, and he's good at his job.
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Instead of thinking like a master tactician, a thing I most definitely am not, I started thinking like an EMT, a thing that I am.
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He is not just a brilliant political tactician; he is a former seminary student who wrestles with the moral questions embedded in our messy politics.
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One of the legacies of the great Sioux tactician, Red Cloud, was an apt description of how the big emerging nation treated the diminished ones.
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Adlai Stevenson, a brilliant tactician and strategist, helped to formulate the "Domino Theory" as a way to stop the spread of communism around the world.
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"The "grindfest", its very demanding for a 41-year-old ... it hurts," Artemis Racing's team manager and tactician Percy Percy told Reuters in a recent interview.
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The knowledge they have gained of the winds and conditions of Bermuda's Great Sound is also a potential advantage for tactician Chris Draper and the crew.
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Pete D'Alessandro, the gut-instinct tactician running the Sanders operation, hustled over the weekend to add a visit on Wednesday to Mr. Sanders's already crowded schedule.
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But more fundamentally, neither alleged master tactician Mitch McConnell nor alleged policy wonk Paul Ryan are nearly as impressive as some of their press hype suggests.
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Thrawn, originally introduced in Zahn's 1991 novel Heir to the Empire, is a master tactician who attempted to resurrect the Empire after Return of the Jedi.
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But, Tuesday's announcement was still a rare setback for McConnell -- an applauded Senate tactician -- who has pushed his party to fall in line countless times before.
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The boat is skippered and helmed by Australia's Nathan Outteridge, working with British team manager and tactician Iain Percy, both of whom are Olympic gold medallists.
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His hero, one J. D. Callahan, shares his own Southern upbringing and love of bicycle racing, and the Republican tactician Lee Atwater's passion for guitar playing.
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She has been a skillful tactician at delving into any issue with a pragmatic and reasonable eye, always ready with sound advice and a good word.
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The final chapter of Jesse Reid's career seems likely to unfold in Vegas, where he's out to prove he's still the sharp tactician of decades past.
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In his several operational deployments, including one tour in Iraq and three in Afghanistan, Milley gained a reputation as an out-of-the-box field tactician.
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Zidane may not be a tactician or a visionary; his presence is so brooding that it is impossible to imagine him as a tub-thumping rhetorician.
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In the state Legislature, he was the leader who delivered bad news, the no-nonsense tactician to some of his Southern-born colleagues' more backslapping style.
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More importantly, though, it gives Leia her due as the tactician and leader that, candidly, only books, comics, and fan fiction got right until the Disney era.
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This is what the Republican leader, Washington's most renowned tactician, actually promised: The Republican leader used some classically ambiguous political language — "it would be my intention," etc.
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At the start of Secret Empire, Captain America, brilliant tactician and soldier that he is, was in charge of Hydra, and Hydra is in control of everything.
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Where Into the Breach let me become a dynamic, master tactician, Valkyria Chronicles 200 encouraged me to be a daring commander in search of the perfect solution.
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Where some saw in Cheek a figure willing to sacrifice self-respect in pursuit of revenue, others saw a brilliant tactician navigating a minefield of white antipathy.
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The #WengerOut debacle has been as hotly debated in Africa as anywhere else, and now the French tactician is gone fans are taking stock of his reign.
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She's the royal you love to hate: duplicitous and nakedly ambitious from the get-go, but a savvy tactician and as ferociously brave as she is vicious.
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The Artemis tactician Ian Percy said Monday that New Zealand and Oracle Team USA were evenly matched for the Cup finals, which start Saturday in Great Sound.
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"The boat that can make it around the racecourse without touching the water will win this America's Cup," said Tom Slingsby, the tactician for Oracle Team USA.
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But she achieved what she set out to, confirming her stature as a master tactician whether or not one agrees with her approach to broader strategic issues.
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And Gina Haspel, the C.I.A. director, has proved to be an adept tactician in dealing with the president, though there is little evidence he has heeded her.
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The America's Cup defender has three athletes who have competed in the Olympics, including tactician Tom Slingsby who won gold for Australia in the Laser dinghy in 2012.
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Like him or not, approve of him or not, the former president retains one of the best political minds in the nation and would be a formidable tactician.
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If Del Potro relies heavily on power, Djokovic, fresh from winning the Wimbledon title two months ago, is a master tactician who never gives up on a point.
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Many of McConnell's colleagues, however, are confident that if anyone can find 50 votes, it's their majority leader -- a political tactician who knows Senate procedure inside and out.
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However it quickly became clear that his reputation as a detail-obsessed and excessively defensive tactician, whether deserved or not, did not sit well with the Real fans.
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Portugal's master tactician Fernando Santos needs to cut supply lines to a player whom the French call "Monsieur Griezmann" as a sign of respect — despite his boyish looks.
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Those defeats, several other uninspiring performances in friendly matches and Klinsmann's persistent criticism of his players had raised questions about his skills as a coach, leader and tactician.
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Some analysts question whether Trump can get the better of Xi, who was born into a life of politics and has a reputation for being a tough tactician.
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Ainslie, a reserve helmsman for Oracle at the start of the race, was brought on board as a tactician with Team New Zealand out to a dominant start.
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Collet, known as a sage tactician and teacher, said the conversation about Ntilikina and Parker frustrated him, given the vast differences between the players, whom he knows well.
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As for the other two, Spithill, as confident as ever, seems a sure thing as helmsman as does Slingsby at tactician, although Spithill will have the final say.
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An investigation by McClatchy unearthed Shishani's former commander in the Georgian military, who said he was a skilled tactician and standout in a US special forces training program.
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Mr. Di Maio asked Mr. Zingaretti for a guarantee that Mr. Renzi, a master infighter and political tactician, would not use his influence to blow up an alliance.
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Mr. Di Maio asked Mr. Zingaretti for a guarantee that Mr. Renzi, a master infighter and political tactician, would not use his influence to blow up an alliance.
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He's not someone who will lead a policy debate, but he's known for being well-liked and a skilled political tactician — enough to give members assurances of electoral protection.
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If Magny wins, then we get an interesting style clash between a rangy tactician on the way up, and a ferocious former champion eager to get back on track.
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" Jennifer Palmieri, the Clinton campaign's director of communications, shot back, "If providing a platform for white supremacists makes me a brilliant tactician, I am more proud to have lost.
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The U.S. team responded by introducing a hybrid position aboard its own boat, allowing tactician Tom Slingsby to pedal when needed to pump more oil into the hydraulic system.
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Until recently Mourinho was regarded as a master tactician and supreme motivator and with 20 major trophies as a manager, including two at United, a reliable provider of silverware.
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ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Former U.S. president George W. Bush accused Russia on Thursday of meddling in the U.S. 2016 presidential election, calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a "brilliant tactician".
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Always a crafty tactician, Mr. Netanyahu seems to be gambling that the Palestinians will never drop their terms while he gets to contend that he is open to negotiations.
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"Just a fantastic athlete with a lot of smarts and a high fencing I.Q." To watch Ms. Prescod compete is to witness a world-class tactician in full force.
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After tapping a Medicare expert and physician to lead HHS, President-elect Trump wisely balanced out his health care roster by nominating Medicaid tactician Seema Verma to run CMS.
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Without their fleet-footed tactician pulling the strings, Croatia disappeared for much of the game, allowing Denmark to put together most of the promising moves in the second half.
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How could Showalter, an expert tactician, have not used the best reliever in baseball, Zach Britton, with his season on the line in the American League wild-card game?
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"It's one of the hardest things," said Chris Draper, the tactician for SoftBank Team Japan, which as part of an unusual agreement is using many of Oracle's design resources.
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Nancy Pelosi, who is drumming up support to be named Speaker of the House once again, is a pragmatic tactician who is unlikely to bring risky votes to the floor.
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Ainslie won the America's Cup in 2013 as tactician aboard Oracle Team USA and is hoping to go head-to-head against his former team and their skipper Jimmy Spithill.
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That would be a difficult position for Mr. Corbyn, a left-wing outsider who is known better as a campaigner on social and economic issues than as a political tactician.
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The tactician who will win at all costs, and who has quietly gone about enacting major pieces of President Donald Trump's agenda and filling the federal bench with Trump appointees.
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He seems less the happy warrior than a hyper-cautious tactician, one who started the campaign with a healthy lead and has been determined not to put it at risk.
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By hiring Rudolph W. Giuliani, a former prosecutor and New York City mayor, as his lawyer, President Trump will not be getting an agile trial tactician or a brilliant legal scholar.
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At the moment, Mr. Putin looks like a master tactician for reasserting Russian influence in Syria, a client during the Cold War of the Soviet Union and more recently of Iran.
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Priest and Texeira fleshed out his special skills — he's a master strategist and tactician — but more importantly, they established and crystallized his motivation: that he must protect Wakanda at all costs.
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"There's no question she's been a highly skilled legislative tactician for Democrats for decades; she has also been very effective for Democrats raising money and behind the scenes," Mr. Wasserman said.
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" That provoked the Clinton campaign's director of communications, Jennifer Palmieri, to respond, "If providing a platform for white supremacists makes me a brilliant tactician, I am more proud to have lost.
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In a year where Sekiro let me hack and parry my way to victory, and Fire Emblem: Three Houses turned me into a master tactician, Outer Wilds brought something totally different.
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" Sarah Peskin, the chair of the nonpartisan Frances Perkins Center in Maine, said Perkins was a notable political figure because she could both "build coalitions and serve as a brilliant tactician.
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In Justice League, Batman and his loyal butler–turned–tactician Alfred use information from Lex Luthor's files to find recruits for the League, as opposed to relying on Batman's own research.
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Science ____ Ms. Haspel, the C.I.A. director, has proved to be an adept tactician in dealing with the president, but there is little evidence he has heeded her work to change policy.
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There is no question that he will be remembered as a great tactician, if only for his employment of the sticky 2-3 zone defense that has come to define his program.
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Akhmetshin: The tactician Akhmetshin is a Soviet-born US citizen, who moved to the states in 1994 and was naturalized in 2009, according to a statement he provided to Radio Free Europe.
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But as a shrewd business tactician, he understood the Republican Party's customers better than its leaders did and sensed that his brand of populist, pugilistic, anti-establishment politics would meet their needs.
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To mark Arsene Wenger's 20th anniversary at the club, Arsenal played a Chelsea team whose form had dipped, but featured a rejuvenated Costa and a master tactician at the helm in Conte.
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Jon can never be depicted as a master tactician or a brilliant leader or anything like that, because it's more exciting to see him snatch victory from the jaws of certain defeat.
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But its relative cratering also reflects Ms. Merkel's skills as a political tactician and an often cold-eyed, nonideological policy pragmatist, even as she has sometimes been cast as a liberal idealist.
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In this view, the Russian president is a brilliant tactician, a slayer of murderous Islamic extremists — and not incidentally, a leader who outmaneuvered and emasculated President Barack Obama on the world stage.
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In fact, he is a brilliant tactician exploiting and apparently relating to the inner self of millions of voters who cannot stand the idea of elitist politicians telling them what to do.
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Stevens was considered a brilliant tactician and often built coalitions that won a court majority, such as in rulings that rejected the George W. Bush administration's legal positions in the war on terrorism.
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For a governor who is routinely described as a calculating tactician and careful in his rhetoric, Andrew Cuomo's "America was never that great" gaffe surprised and disappointed all those who follow him closely.
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In addition, for all his acumen as a legislative tactician, McConnell in 2017 failed to get the Senate to vote to repeal Obamacare, the 2010 healthcare law that Trump had vowed to end.
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An American retreat would cement Russia's status as a power to be reckoned with in the Middle East and would further burnish Mr. Putin's reputation as a master tactician on the world stage.
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The plan amounted to the ultimate power move of a master tactician who has spent the weeks since the Democrats won control of the House courting and wearing down skeptics in her ranks.
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Trump's impeachment is the culmination of Democrats' year-long string of Trump-focused investigations overseen by Pelosi, a skilled political tactician who remained reluctant to embrace impeachment until the Ukraine scandal broke open.
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From the opening aerial shots of a thoroughly denatured agricultural landscape and the lethal confrontation that follows, we know we are in the presence of a masterly visual tactician and a shrewd storyteller.
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The 65-year-old former Real Madrid coach and Manchester United assistant is a master tactician and no novice World Cup campaigner, having overseen Portugal in 2010 and Iran four years ago in Brazil.
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At that point, you can start more aggressively multitasking while the exhilaration of the combat makes you feel seem like a true tactician - Nick I didn't get to spend as much time with Arktika.
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Pegg said the addition of Jaylah, a skilled physical fighter and instinctive tactician stranded on a dangerous world, to the familiar Trek cast of characters was a welcome, much-needed addition to the film.
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Sofuku and the team hired Dean Barker, the star helmsman from New Zealand, as skipper and chief executive, and then added another major talent, Chris Draper of Britain, as tactician and sailing team manager.
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The family of former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi, which controls Mediaset, suspected Bollore would seek to loosen their grip on the company - concerns based on his history as a skilled and aggressive corporate tactician.
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"This information," he said, "may prove useful to modern ship designers, naval tactician, and people who develop shipboard damage control techniques" — a particularly relevant resource in light of recent fatal collisions involving naval vessels.
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But not only are the problems with this strategy both large and obvious, but the Senate Republican leader is also a veteran legislator and probably the most impressive political tactician of the 21st century.
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But then, as a tactician you need to be aware of that, so the money flow restriction has had an impact to the deals and things have slowed down, and we'll just see what happens.
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Russell, who served from 85033 until his death in 1971, was a wily legislative tactician who ran the conservative coalition of southern Democrats and Republicans that controlled the Senate for much of the 20th century.
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Despite an injury prone right hand, Conteh was a brilliant tactician in the ring, able to close the gap with a blurring jab and who always got off the floor to win, lose or draw.
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The one major difference between them is that Bibi is very smart, an avid reader and a deft tactician in managing relations with Israel's neighbors and big powers, such as America, Russia, India and China.
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This is Lear as tactician, Lear as brain as well as body, who suffers not only the betrayals of his daughters and the mortifications of age but the limitations of living with his own mind.
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And it pushed Mr. Emanuel, a Democrat who built a reputation as a master tactician during stints in Congress and on two White House staffs, into a political bind that he endured but never overcame.
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WASHINGTON — The top Republican in the Senate, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, has a reputation as a shrewd tactician and a wily strategist — far more than his younger counterpart in the House, Speaker Paul D. Ryan.
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Unlike Ryan, McCarthy has never been known as someone who will lead a policy debate, but he's known for being well-liked and a skilled political tactician — and has definitely had ambitions for the speakership.
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New Zealand's hotshot Peter Burling, the youngest helmsman in the event at 26, and British tactician Giles Scott, 29, both jumped straight back into the America's Cup boats after winning gold medals in Rio last year.
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Part singer, part diarist, Swift can switch effortlessly between swelling pop choruses and intricate, conversational verses filled with wry and revealing asides that point to the shrewd tactician beneath the veil of the wholesome country starlet.
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But while Mr. Reid is known as a skilled tactician and a masterful arm-twister in procuring needed votes, the Republicans' entire approach is to prevent any Supreme Court nominee from ever reaching the Senate floor.
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But Chernow persuasively makes the case that Grant was its most-forward thinking and innovative general and that, while he had equals as a tactician, his ability to manage, mobilize, and deploy enormous armies was unsurpassed.
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A consummate tactician, Mr. Netanyahu did not make his announcement until Mr. Gantz, who met separately with Mr. Trump on Monday, had left for Israel in order to lead the first debate on immunity in Parliament.
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At the start of Season 2, the suave and sinister palace tactician Lord Baelish (Aidan Gillen), walking in a courtyard with Cersei and her guards, for once pushes his flattering manner into the range of overfamiliarity.
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Maybe they could have one-way radios to call in mechanical problems, or for more water, but when you basically have the team tactician in the car calling all the shots it takes away from the race.
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As for what he might be seeking from all of this, Western officials in Kabul acknowledge that Mr. Karzai, a masterful tactician and politician, does not necessarily need to have a clear concept of what he wants.
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In 1994 Hug didn't have the polished combinations and set ups, or much in the way of defense, but he had the mind to become the finest offensive tactician that the sport of kickboxing has ever seen.
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A brilliant offensive tactician, Payton excels at capitalizing on mismatches, and he integrated Ingram and the versatile Kamara — between the tackles and outside them, on screens and on routes — while still showcasing the dangerous receiver Michael Thomas.
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Often dismissed as a tactician and opportunist, he was looking more like a grand strategist as Mr. Trump bluntly rejected European demands for an exemption from what Brussels considers illegal and unilateral tariffs on steel and aluminum.
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So with his decision to order that hundreds of American diplomats and Russians working for the American Embassy leave their posts, Mr. Putin, known as a great tactician but not a great strategist, has changed course again.
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Van Gaal, who was the first Manchester United coach who was not British or Irish, will reportedly be replaced by another confident manager from the continent: José Mourinho, the Portuguese tactician who once nicknamed himself the Special One.
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And Clady, who is tall and linear with the quick feet and long arms (36 ¾ inches) that are so vital in detouring charging pass rushers, is considered a cerebral tactician — much the way Ferguson was in his prime.
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No coach stands out as a good match for what they've got going on, but it'd be fascinating to see how an ingenious tactician like Snyder would use Aaron Gordon—how about experimenting with him at the five?
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A skilled tactician, Mr. Zuma rose to the presidency despite the shadow cast by the arms deal — a multibillion dollar purchase to modernize South Africa's military after apartheid — and other legal problems, including a trial on rape charges.
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In choosing the American artist Trisha Donnelly for the Shed's first solo exhibition, the curators here opted for a tactician and a troublemaker — one whose terse, enigmatic maneuvers stand far from the sparkle and retail of Hudson Yards.
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As she approaches her first full year on the job, Ms. Haspel has proved an adept tactician, charming the president with small gestures and talking to him with a blend of a hardheaded realism and appeals to emotion.
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A skilled legislative tactician known for a confrontational side, Mr. Bonnen quickly consolidated support among lawmakers to emerge as the consensus successor to Joe Straus, who had served five terms as speaker, after Mr. Straus announced his retirement.
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A master tactician, one of his greatest coups was to forge a unity of purpose among players from diverse backgrounds and build a team strong enough to withstand the political and economic challenges of playing football in Iran.
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Paul Henissart wrote in his book "Wolves in the City: The Death of French Algeria" (19973) that Mr. Susini regarded Mr. Salan as a "tactician rather than a strategist," who was better at exploiting circumstances than creating them.
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But let's be real here: Bran is a Middle Ages Dr. Manhattan and would be an awful king; Littlefinger rubbed off too much on Sansa; Jon Snow is a terrible military tactician and doesn't want it anyway; and Gendry?
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Now, a majority leader celebrated for years as a brilliant tactician looks vulnerable — to dissent within his Senate conference and to insurgents from President Trump's populist wing of the party, who are looking to storm the Senate in 2018.
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It could say that he has more discipline than he gets credit for, and that instead of a mad, lonely king ranting in his castle, he is actually a profoundly flawed tactician playing his own pale version of chess.
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The episode's early images of a wave of wights crashing toward the forces of the living were properly terrifying, and the Night King proved himself to be a better tactician than Jon and Dany in just about every way.
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Of the nine sailors who took part in the two races last Sunday, only one — the grinder Cooper Dressler — is a full-blown American, although the tactician Tom Slingsby and another grinder, Louis Sinclair, do hold United States passports.
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McConnell failed last month to secure the 51 votes needed to pass an ObamaCare repeal bill, leading the president to lash out in tweets and statements that the Kentucky Republican, known as a master tactician, is proving simply ineffective.
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Ayers, 36, chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence and known as a skilled Republican political tactician, had been in discussions for months about taking the job, but was unable to agree to terms with Trump, another source said.
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Sanders, who is more of a highly skilled political and legislative tactician than pundits understand, has responded to the Aetna withdrawal from many healthcare exchanges by publicly announcing he will wage an all-out campaign to enact the public option.
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This is what the Republican leader, Washington's most renowned tactician, actually promised: "I think he's made his commitments so publicly, so unequivocally, it would be very difficult for him to try to find a way out of meeting that commitment," Sen.
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McConnell, a skillful tactician who was forced two weeks ago to scrub a planned vote on an earlier version opposed by both moderates and hard-line conservatives in his party, has planned for a vote on the retooled bill next week.
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Former world number one Woods, sidelined for much of the past year while recovering from multiple back operations, is one of five assistants to U.S. captain Davis Love III at Hazeltine and has established himself as the team's leading tactician.
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If the Kentucky Republican fails in his effort to repeal and replace ObamaCare, his reputation as a master tactician of the Senate will take a hit, with lawmakers second-guessing his decisions on drawing up a bill largely behind closed doors.
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But it was at Villanova, where he led the men's team for 19 years and compiled a 173-375 record, that he was catapulted to fame as a fiery sideline tactician, fond of inspirational speeches that drew on his Italian heritage.
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The former world number one was recruited by U.S. captain Davis Love III as a team tactician for next week's event but Westwood, a wildcard pick for Europe, said he was not convinced Woods' presence would have the desired impact.
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" Later, at a bipartisan election post-mortem panel in December, the Clinton campaign's communications director, Jennifer Palmieri, recast the claim as an accusation: "If providing a platform for white supremacists makes me a brilliant tactician, I am proud to have lost.
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They say she's a prolific and tireless fundraiser, she builds consensus in a diverse caucus, she's a shrewd legislative tactician, and she deserves credit for holding things together when the Affordable Care Act seemed to be on the verge of collapsing.
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That's because Bannon's role has long eclipsed that of traditional political strategist, with the former head of the right-wing Breitbart News site quickly taking custody of Trump's political and policy agendas not just as tactician, but as one of its chief architects.
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At His Smartest Newer fans may struggle to understand Fedor's vaunted fight IQ when they see footage of him swinging wild with Bigfoot Silva and Dan Henderson, and leaping into Fabricio Werdum's guard, but at his best Emelianenko was a masterful tactician.
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This is the Hillary that leftists dream about, the shrewd tactician who hides out in those details like some kind of liberal sniper, works quietly with the opponents who publicly despise her, and then achieves the best possible outcome under the harshest circumstances.
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But while Land Rover BAR showed good speed, the U.S. crew's tactician Tom Slingsby made a shrewd call on the third leg of the seven leg course and Oracle Team USA were able to pass their British opponents and produce a convincing win.
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On the water he signed up Jono Macbeth, a 44-year-old New Zealander who has three America's Cup wins, as sailing team manager and enlisted Giles Scott as tactician on his catamaran "Rita", the name Ainslie gives to all his racing boats.
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So lopsided is the contest that significant crew changes are not out of the question for Oracle; Jimmy Spithill, Oracle's star skipper and longtime leader, is not ruling out being replaced at the helm by the team's tactician, Tom Slingsby, for Monday's races.
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According to interviews with half a dozen former Pentagon and military officials, the consensus is that Milley is a brilliant and thoughtful military tactician, a scholarly thinker underneath a gritty exterior who has proven himself during numerous combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Patriotism always strikes me as out of place at the fights, where the tribal identification that matters most is not national or even ethnic but stylistic: in this case, the seek-and-destroy hitter from Chelyabinsk versus the cerebral tactician from Oakland.
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McMaster is a highly regarded military tactician and strategic thinker, but his selection surprised some observers who wondered how the officer, whose Army career stalled at times for his questioning of authority, would deal with a White House that has not welcomed criticism.
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For a shrewd political tactician who seldom says — or doesn't say — anything without political purpose, Mr. Cuomo's positioning has raised questions from allies and opponents alike: Is he a savvy politician playing the long game, or being too clever for his own good?
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But it doubles as a story about the broader struggle for equal rights for women and men in America, as well as a primer into the way Ginsburg thinks, presenting her as a shrewd legal tactician and advocate for progressive causes throughout her career.
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After taking a hit for the loss on health reform, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) restored his reputation as a skilled tactician with the passage of a tax package that few thought would make it out of the Senate before year's end.
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Corretja described Murray's style as something of a throwback, saying he may have lacked the explosive power of some of the modern generation but knew how to outwit opponents, agreeing with former U.S. Open champion Andy Roddick that he was unrivalled as a tactician.
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Lighthizer is regarded as an experienced tactician with an intimate knowledge of trade tools that were widely used before the WTO was created in 1995, including "Section 301" tariffs used to stem a tide of imports of Japanese steel and vehicles in the 1980s.
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Not only did it take Tywin (a proven tactician who may have been a hard foe for Daenerys to overcome) out of the equation, but it also threw King's Landing into complete chaos (leaving Cersei in charge, which further weakened the Lannisters for a future invasion).
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And there is no doubt that during his two terms in office, the governor has forged a reputation as a master tactician who dominates all major negotiations, putting his political weight behind issues such as same-sex marriage or gun restrictions, and winning victories despite daunting odds.
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Bannon is "a guy who works for me," he said to The Wall Street Journal a day later, lumping the lumpy tactician together with the concierges at Trump Tower, the groundskeepers at Mar-a-Loco and the makers of the meatloaf in the White House kitchen.
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He is increasingly seen as an avatar of Democratic craftiness and frustrated conservative aspirations: a wily tactician who has routinely defanged his Republican adversaries with ease, first as chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and more recently as a lead negotiator on the issue of immigration reform.
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Rather, Ullrich sees his subject as a consummate political tactician, and still more important, as a gifted actor, able to show each of his audiences — from the rowdies at mass meetings in beer halls to the elites in the salons of rich industrialists — the leader it wanted to see.
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A combative and unapologetic political tactician, Mr. Cuomo — a centrist by nature — has tacked left during Mr. Trump's time in the White House, repeatedly attacking the president's efforts on immigration and other issues, including his tax plan, which the governor has called an "economic missile" aimed at New York.
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The 49-to-51 vote was also a humiliating setback for the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who has nurtured his reputation as a master tactician and spent the last three months trying to devise a repeal bill that could win support from members of his caucus.
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He's a monklike and macho character, a conscientious objector who is also a brilliant military tactician, and while there is nothing wrong with putting that kind of figure into a war movie, at a certain point you do have to wonder why Edgerton and company bothered naming him Falstaff at all.
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" Desribing Putin as a "gifted tactician, but not a strategic thinker," Soros went on to explain that while there was no reason to think that the Russian leader became involved in Syria to intensify Europe's refugee crisis, once he "saw the opportunity to hasten the EU's disintegration, he seized it.
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In 2009, Gillespie created Ed Gillespie Strategies to become what's known in the trade as a shadow lobbyist — someone who is a strategist, a tactician and an influence peddler who capitalizes on lacunae in the law to avoid registering as a lobbyist while providing guidance to corporations and trade associations.
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For those watching on television, including Democrats who had lumped Mr. Cruz and Mr. Trump together as a dream ticket of easily marginalized (if not parodied) general election candidates, Mr. Cruz seemed like something else: an intelligent and brutal tactician who may prove a more formidable and nimble opponent, should he gain his party's nomination.
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But conversations with more than 653 current and former senior advisers, activists and elected officials who have worked with him reveal a political tactician of almost limitless ambition and extraordinary ability, a leader with jagged edges and little regard for rules, especially if they are standing in the way of the results he wants.
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The story of how Mr. McConnell held Republicans together — even in the face of stunning revelations about the president's conduct and uneasiness in his party about Mr. Trump's actions — reflects how a master Senate tactician deployed his command of procedure and keen political instincts to lock down a process that posed an existential threat to the president.
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A close Trump associate said that Trump, a 71-year-old brash former reality TV star who had never held public office before he entered the White House in January, had yet to comprehend the need to improve his relationship with McConnell, a 75-year-old dour legislative tactician with more than 30 years in the U.S. Senate.
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As always, there are multiple reasons: Ms Nixon and Mr Williams never really expanded beyond their progressive bases; Mr Cuomo is a skilled, bare-knuckled campaign tactician (in the race's waning days a mailer, which Mr Cuomo barely managed to condemn, accused Ms Nixon of being an anti-Semite—a farcically scurrilous accusation against a candidate raising two Jewish children).
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"In my time at US Cyber Command, I never saw an [operation] be planned that didn't go through an intense amount of rigor with the entire government and sometimes even foreign partners weighing in with their equities," Ryan Duff, a former cyber operations tactician at CYBERCOM, and now director of cyber solutions at Point3, told Motherboard in an online chat.
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"Donald Trump is his own strategist, campaign manager, and tactician, and all credit for his incredible election belongs to him," Stone writes in his book, "The Making of the President 2016: How Donald Trump Orchestrated a Revolution," a score-settling account against everyone who has ever upset Roger Stone, which comes across as a feverish and dubiously sourced campaign journal.
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As the party braces for an electoral drubbing that threatens to wipe out the majority they won eight years ago, the list of incumbents under duress is growing ever longer — and even powerful lawmakers like Sessions, a sharp-elbowed tactician who hasn't faced a serious reelection contest in over a decade, are suddenly trying to survive a Trump-fueled bloodbath.
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JOHANNESBURG — President Jacob Zuma of South Africa, a master tactician who survived a string of corruption scandals and harsh court judgments during his nearly nine-year presidency, agreed on Wednesday night to step down, repudiated by the governing African National Congress Party, threatened by a no-confidence vote in Parliament, cornered by opposition parties and abandoned by millions of voters.
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He is the soft-spoken man who slugs it out with Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky on the floor over filibusters, the tactician who delivered the 60 votes for President Obama's health care law ("It was really, really hard"), the leader who didn't quit after a punishing accident while exercising at his home, the guy who made the billionaires Charles G. and David H. Koch the poster boys for unrestricted campaign spending.
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The crude heuristic that transformed Steve Bannon in the eyes of the media from the sewer-dwelling publisher of Breitbart's "black crime" vertical into a master political tactician goes something like this: Donald Trump was on pace to lose the 2016 election to Hillary Clinton before Bannon joined the campaign last August, and then Trump went on to beat her—using Bannonite race-baiting and character assassination tactics—with a popular vote margin of -3 million.
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McMaster is a highly regarded tactician and strategic thinker with a PhD, who as a captain in 1991 commanded a small troop of the U.S. 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment that destroyed a much larger Iraqi Republican Guard force at a place called 73 Easting, for its map coordinates, in what many consider the biggest tank battle since World War II. Caslen, a West Point graduate, was serving in the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, and joined others after the attack in rushing into the damaged part of the building to search for survivors.
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Notwithstanding the fact that these criteria would disqualify a number of our founding fathers and presidents from being featured on our currency, the real irony of this argument is that without Alexander Hamilton's considerable contributions to our history as, among other things, military tactician, persuasive advocate for federal unity and architect of the national banking system, the face of a woman would grace the face of our currency: Queen Elizabeth II. ALEXANDRA CAMBOURIS London To the Editor: Re "Broadway Success of 'Hamilton' May Have Saved Hamilton on the $10 Bill" (news article, April 16): I find it difficult to believe that Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew could be influenced in his decision about whether to put a woman on the face of the new $10 bill based on the box-office success of Lin-Manuel Miranda's rap musical.
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