Many people have expected tax rates to rise next year, making it advantageous to reverse that conventional strategy.

Many conservation biologists believe that conventional strategies may help combat extinctions from global warming.

Aircraft have dropped nearly 100,000 gallons of the dispersants on the water's surface to break down the oil, a more conventional strategy.

But the report concludes that Beijing, aware of its military's technological deficiencies, has developed less conventional strategies for asserting its power in the region.

The conventional strategy in figure skating is to finish among the top three in the short program, which counts for one-third of the scoring.

The campaign rejected the conventional strategy of focussing on specific areas.

As a result, conventional military strategies often demand possession of high ground.

The Republicans adhered to their conventional strategy in close midterm elections of striving for a low turnout in urban areas.

"So, if he pursues a conventional strategy, I doubt very much that he's go-ing to be able to get around to us at all this year."

He argued that a certain interpretation of a text will only occur because of the conventional strategies that determine the interpretive community.