In 1948 it suffered a fatal split, as the communists applied the salami tactics to dismember any opposition.

The Hungarian Communist Party, which had lost the previous election, consolidated its power in the interim using salami tactics.

Even this turned out to be completely redundant very soon thereafter, with the gradualist approach abandoned and salami tactics accelerated.

The Communist Party repeatedly wrestled small concessions from opponents in a process named "salami tactics".

The selling of George W. Bush's tax cut relies heavily on salami tactics - slicing away opposition a bit at a time.

I have a word of warning for those people who are using these salami tactics against Strasbourg and Brussels.

It means amputating EU policies, slice by slice: real salami tactics.

We must also be aware of the creeping decision-making, the typical salami tactics being used here.

This looks like salami tactics, where you keep having small slices rammed down your throat until you end up having eaten the whole sausage.

What we have seen so far is a kind of salami tactics, and that is damaging.