1.   But with such programs now under a sustained political assault, particularly from GOP congressional leaders, raising the issue of reparations is increasingly viewed as a defense tactic.

2.   Gilmour said his team knew about the defense tactic to skew the courses.

3.   That is not a new defense tactic.

4.   The defense tactic failed.

5.   The demand is most-often used as a defense tactic to reduce the time prosecutors have to collect evidence for trial.

6.   The Taliban defense tactic in Kabul of seeking cover among the civilian population has succeeded.

7.   There is no more venerable defense tactic in rape or sexual coercion cases than casting doubt on the credibility and virtue of the women who are making the claim.

8.   As shown in the Simpson trial, that has become a common defense tactic when prosecutors are armed with powerful DNA evidence.

9.   But U.S. Magistrate Ronald Boyce, an authority on international law at the University of Utah, rejects the defense tactic.

10.   The decision appeared to be part of a new defense tactic in which the defense attacks prosecutors as being politically motivated.