jiujutsu

In a bit of jiujutsu, Douglass than uses the video record from a recent AARP forum where, contra Drudge, Obama stresses that "nobody is trying to change what works in the system."

White House Takes on Drudge, Others "with a Computer and a Lot of Free Time" Scola, Nancy 2009

BarackBook. com is a bit of political jiujutsu, using a candidate's perceived strengths against him -- in this case the image of Obama as a new kind of cleaner politician, a tactic that has deep roots in the GOP, going back to Karl Rove and then to Lee Atwater before him.

Daily Digest: The Revolution? Televised, At Least a Little 2008

BarackBook. com is a bit of political jiujutsu, using a candidate's perceived strengths against him -- in this case the image of Obama as a new kind of cleaner politician, a tactic that has deep roots in the GOP, going back to Karl Rove and then to Lee Atwater before him.

Daily Digest: The Revolution? Televised, At Least a Little Scola, Nancy 2008

It was one of the simplest, yet one of the most effective and agonizing, holds in all jiujutsu.

Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story Albert Payson Terhune 1907

Save what should rather be called a scientific art (jiujutsu), the Japanese students do not enter into games or sports.

Ojio-San 1898

Certainly the industrial jiujutsu promises unexpected results.

Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints Lafcadio Hearn 1877

The combination met with no opposition; the government played jiujutsu, and foiled expectations by unlooked-for yielding.

Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints Lafcadio Hearn 1877

(The rules of jiujutsu, it is true, require not only silence, but the total suppression of all visible emotional interest on the part of the spectators.)

Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation Lafcadio Hearn 1877

One might watch a game of foot-ball being played, and hear nothing but the thud of the kicking; or one might watch wrestling-contests in the jiujutsu-room, and hear no word spoken for half an hour at a time.

Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation Lafcadio Hearn 1877