It is political jujitsu.

At that point, the committee seemed to be practicing political jujitsu.

But few anticipated how deftly Democrats would use a bit of political jujitsu to turn the issue to Mr. Menendez's advantage, allowing him to earn a victory.

The phrase was brilliant political jujitsu, turning the Republicans' favorite issue against them.

In a form of political jujitsu, Democrats employed the growing unease about the war's effect on a shaky economy to reduce the president's $726 billion tax cut proposal by half.

The California challenge was probably the greatest example of political jujitsu at a party convention since primary elections became the dominant mode of selecting delegates.

In a remarkable feat of political jujitsu, Clinton and Gore have taken the right's own emphasis on "values" and turned it into a middle-class critique of consumer capitalism.

"It's a political jujitsu," said David Taras, a University of Calgary political scientist.

Once again, it's the Saul Alinsky theory of political jujitsu: "No organization ...can live up to the letter of its own book.