He tried another tack.

So I changed tack.

Then the symbolic debate overwhelmed him and he changed tack entirely.

You're on that tack, are you? That idiot child of Denby's.

Look here, seems to me you're taking a pretty different tack!

I see he's taking a new tack. What do you mean?

Now, Hank, I think we're getting off on the wrong tack here.

A change of tack by Merkel now would merely reinvigorate the devastated SPD.

little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the panel with a tack.

He can scold a tack that Francis has so far tried to avoid but he cannot convince.

And then, several hundred million years ago, nature went off on another tack and produced the dinosaurs.

Hear the crack of the canvas as he slammed the wheel over... and we came around on a tack.

We'll sail in until we sight them, make a larboard tack... and rake them with broadsides as we cross the harbor.

On an entirely different tack, at University of Washington, they, a few years ago, were doing an experiment where they captured some crows on campus.

On a different tack, I should like to inform this world forum that the degradation of the environment is a matter of constant concern to us.

In view of the commemorative nature of this agenda item, today I plan to follow a somewhat historical tack, and I hope members will pardon me for so doing.

I have a more fitting proposal for clerics in favor of this bogus call gouge your eyes out with a tack hammer if you wish to refrain from being seduced.

He warned that if the federal Government was not more responsive to their demands for more autonomy now, they may take a more aggressive tack and seek total independence. 18

Now that science s post WWII charisma has faded, politicians are taking the opposite tack. They are increasingly tempted to ignore scientific findings altogether, and make values the center of all public policy debates.

Nature's mysteries meet tack sharp wit in this hilarious, 10 minute mix of quips and fun lessons, as comedian, writer and TV man John Lloyd plucks at the substance of several things not seen.

For hours, in fall days, I watched the ducks cunningly tack and veer and hold the middle of the pond, far from the sportsman tricks which they will have less need to practise in Louisiana bayous.

load it with your stem cells, then put it back on to that arthritic surface in your knee, tack it on there, have you heal that surface and then create a new biologic surface for your knee.

Now ICANN is taking a different tack, allowing for a dramatic expansion of the namespace with a host of new Top Level Domains (TLDs), the suffixes that go after the dot, such as .com, .org, and, soon, .anything.

It is crucial that the process, which has taken an irreversible tack, satisfy legitimate aspirations and bring about the calm atmosphere necessary for us to address ourselves together to the strengthening of peace and the development of the region.

The Thanks for the Book Award, ( Kiitos kirjasta mitali in Finnish and Tack för boken medaljen in Swedish), is a Finnish literary prize that has been presented since 1966 by the Organization of the Booksellers Association of Finland (Kirjakauppaliitto r.y.

He was happy to make deals with Democrats to put himself at the head not just of the Republican Party but of the bipartisan Progressive coalition, trying either to yoke the two forces together or to tack back and forth between them to achieve legislative and policy goals.

Despite the gravity of the situation, Hollande has three advantages excessive austerity is unrealistic, given growing social opposition public deficits are only a small part of Europe s problems (and are not necessarily the source of the crisis) and a strong consensus has emerged outside of Germany to change tack.

And after a few moments, her therapist tries a new tack, and they start singing together, and Gabby starts to sing through her tears, and you can hear her clearly able to enunciate the words to a song that describe the way she feels, and she sings, in one descending scale, she sings,

So what we're going to do is take an articular cartilage from a young, healthy pig, strip it of its antigens, load it with your stem cells, then put it back on to that arthritic surface in your knee, tack it on there, have you heal that surface and then create a new biologic surface for your knee.

And after a few moments, her therapist tries a new tack, and they start singing together, and Gabby starts to sing through her tears, and you can hear her clearly able to enunciate the words to a song that describe the way she feels, and she sings, in one descending scale, she sings, Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.