1 (especially in football or hockey) to try to take the ball from a player in the other team, or (in rugby or American football) to do this by taking hold of the player and making them fall --
2 (especially in football or hockey) an act of tackling someone --
3 all the objects needed for a particular activity: --
fishing tackle
5 to catch and knock down someone who is running, esp. in the game of football: --
All four players were unable to tackle the quarterback before he scored a touchdown.
Internally, these values confer to the members the ability to reflect critically on the way they tackle tasks and relate to one another.
Even their justified criticisms of cladistic methodologies are somewhat imprecise and do not tackle the fundamental problems of this approach.
Finally, we demonstrate the flexibility of the computational tools used to tackle problems at different scales.
In fact, research projects large and small, just waiting to be tackled, jump out with startling frequency.
A group of local people had identified learning disabilities as an area they wanted to tackle, but that this was not included.
This goal is motivated by the observation that linguistically motivated grammars are unable to tackle a large number of 'exceptions', each requiring a special treatment.
This book has tackled the important aspect of 'prosody in use', and highlighted the weakness of decontextualized theorizing.
This issue is tackled by adopting a uniform underlying agent architecture, the multi-context architecture.
