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Definition of scare tactic in English: scare tacticnoun A strategy intended to manipulate public opinion about a particular issue by arousing fear or alarm. we need facts, not scare tactics and false information Example sentencesExamples - He is convinced popular opposition is due to the scare tactics of 'pressure groups.'
- Unfortunately, with a population that has not been taught to think deeply, these scare tactics often achieve their desired results.
- Expect more Kyoto doomsday scare tactics from the party's leadership.
- One Congressional study found 80 percent of these programs contained false information and scare tactics, not science.
- The music industry's anti-download scare tactics just won't wash.
- And isn't it an abuse of power for a public official, in an official communication, to be engaging in scare tactics in an effort to influence how his subordinates vote?
- I find myself taken back by his sad lack of facts and willingness to use these scare tactics to further his agenda.
- Many abstinence-only programs use scare tactics to make their case that premarital sex has negative consequences.
- European officials, rattled by recent rejections of the EU constitution, are using scare tactics to try to win people's support.
- How much of this is really true and how much is a scare tactic to make us panic and want to go back to living off the land?
- They were accused of scare tactics last night after claiming the Chancellor plans a 40 per cent tax on profits from house sales.
- We should not allow these scare tactics to succeed.
- One of the central findings was that positive messages, as opposed to traditional health scare tactics, are required to persuade people to change their diet.
- Historically, main-stream prevention programs were largely didactic and used scare tactics to alter children's attitudes and dissuade them from using drugs.
- Today's anti-drug programs claim to have replaced all the scare tactics of years past with good, solid information about the physiological effects of drug use.
- He said the notices were not a scare tactic, but a way of giving people information.
- Lawyers for the victims viewed the move as a scare tactic to keep others from coming forward.
- Instead of a grown-up debate as to how best to help our public services, she is resorting to scare tactics.
- Clearly, manufacturers are resorting to scare tactics as public distrust of pharmaceutical companies and vaccines grows.
- Police officers have been left shocked by the scare tactics used by a ruthless crook who stole the savings of a 90-year-old Upavon woman.
Definition of scare tactic in US English: scare tacticnounske(ə)r ˈtaktik A strategy intended to manipulate public opinion about a particular issue by arousing fear or alarm. we need facts, not scare tactics and false information Example sentencesExamples - The music industry's anti-download scare tactics just won't wash.
- He said the notices were not a scare tactic, but a way of giving people information.
- They were accused of scare tactics last night after claiming the Chancellor plans a 40 per cent tax on profits from house sales.
- I find myself taken back by his sad lack of facts and willingness to use these scare tactics to further his agenda.
- Expect more Kyoto doomsday scare tactics from the party's leadership.
- Clearly, manufacturers are resorting to scare tactics as public distrust of pharmaceutical companies and vaccines grows.
- One Congressional study found 80 percent of these programs contained false information and scare tactics, not science.
- Instead of a grown-up debate as to how best to help our public services, she is resorting to scare tactics.
- Lawyers for the victims viewed the move as a scare tactic to keep others from coming forward.
- How much of this is really true and how much is a scare tactic to make us panic and want to go back to living off the land?
- One of the central findings was that positive messages, as opposed to traditional health scare tactics, are required to persuade people to change their diet.
- Historically, main-stream prevention programs were largely didactic and used scare tactics to alter children's attitudes and dissuade them from using drugs.
- He is convinced popular opposition is due to the scare tactics of 'pressure groups.'
- Many abstinence-only programs use scare tactics to make their case that premarital sex has negative consequences.
- European officials, rattled by recent rejections of the EU constitution, are using scare tactics to try to win people's support.
- Today's anti-drug programs claim to have replaced all the scare tactics of years past with good, solid information about the physiological effects of drug use.
- And isn't it an abuse of power for a public official, in an official communication, to be engaging in scare tactics in an effort to influence how his subordinates vote?
- Unfortunately, with a population that has not been taught to think deeply, these scare tactics often achieve their desired results.
- Police officers have been left shocked by the scare tactics used by a ruthless crook who stole the savings of a 90-year-old Upavon woman.
- We should not allow these scare tactics to succeed.
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