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This move was of major strategic importance, as it provided the Greeks with a forward base in close distance to the Dardanelles, the Ottoman fleet's main anchorage and refuge.
Davis had a very small circle of military advisers, and largely made the main strategic decisions on his own ( or approved those suggested by Lee ).
The spring 1942 Amerika Bomber program also sought to produce useful strategic bomber designs for the Luftwaffe, with their prime design priority being an advanced trans-oceanic range capability as the main aim of the project to directly attack the United States from Europe or the Azores.
The Accession conditions were negotiated, being the main strategic goal of Miller ’ s cabinet.
The Siege of Khe Sanh displays typical features of modern sieges, as the defender has greater capacity to withstand the siege, the attacker's main aim is to bottle operational forces or create a strategic distraction, rather than take the siege to a conclusion.
During the migration period, the region suffered invasions of many barbarian armies, due to its strategic position as the main passage from the Pannonian plain to the Italian peninsula.
The four main issues instrumental in forming the nuclear strategy were technical limitations, nuclear weapon availability, lack of strategic thinking and politics.
During the American Civil War, American cotton exports slumped due to a Union blockade on Southern ports, also because of a strategic decision by the Confederate government to cut exports, hoping to force Britain to recognize the Confederacy or enter the war, prompting the main purchasers of cotton, Britain and France to turn to Egyptian cotton.
The main causes of cost overruns and revenue shortfalls are optimism bias and strategic misrepresentation.
The main strategic events of the battle ( but obviously not the detail ) are followed in Robyn Young's novel Requiem.
At the same time that the company was making major divestments in the early 1990s, American Stores also looked for opportunities to make strategic minor acquisitions, ones that would enhance its position in the main markets where it needed to strengthen market share.
It is located at a strategic position on the River Shannon with four main crossing points near the city centre.
The watchtowers are placed at strategic locations throughout the city, most prominently towards its rear and main entrance.
* The main business goals of the organization, e. g. strategic business objectives, critical success factors and key performance indicators, which a holistic business model approach should include.
* The main business goals of the organization, e. g. strategic business objectives, critical success factors and key performance indicators, which a holistic business model approach should include.
" The main elements that influenced the region's history were the copper resources and other minerals, the ancient international roads that crossed the area, and its geopolitical and strategic position.
Initial work began in 1357, but the main construction occurred from 1370 onwards, creating a strong fortress with eight towers that protected the strategic gateway of the Porte Saint-Antoine on the eastern edge of Paris.
Kent County Council is responsible for running the largest and most expensive local services such as education, social services, libraries, main roads, public transport, policing and fire services, trading standards, waste disposal and strategic planning.
Being on a main railway line with extensive marshalling yards, it was of strategic importance and a target of the French Resistance.
Note that of the above list of strategic terms, even this elementary summary indicates that the Mongols strategy was directed towards an objective ( that schwerpunkt ( main focus ) being nothing less than the psychology of the opposing population ) achieved through the offensive ; the offensive was characterized by concentration of forces, manoeuvre, surprise and simplicity.
The main strategic goals of inter-war Germany under were the re-establishment of Germany as a European great power and complete annulment of the Versailles treaty.
During the development of the River Clyde as a main thoroughfare for goods, shipbuilding and smuggling, Millport was a strategic base for Customs and Excise.
The Plan of Management is the main policy document for the Park and strives to balance strategic or long-term goals and tactical or day to day goals.
After the construction of the Suez Canal in 1869, which instantly became the main shipping-route to British India, successive British governments decided that Egypt was simply too strategic to be left to its own devices and imposed a military protectorate over the country.

main and concern
The special syntactical effects of a Rimbaud or an Edith Sitwell -- actually ornaments -- become the main concern.
At present the doctor's main concern was in seeing to it that Japanese salvage firms were not permitted to operate on the hulks of warships sunk too close inshore, because the work involved setting off nerve-shattering blasts at all hours.
As a first step, Algerian literature was marked by works whose main concern was the assertion of the Algerian national entity, there is the publication of novels as the Algerian trilogy of Mohammed Dib, or even Nedjma of Kateb Yacine novel which is often regarded as a monumental and major work.
Franklin agrees that Luke ’ s work is apolitical and believes that Luke ’ s main concern was the “ triumph of God in Paul ’ s arrival in Rome.
" ( Acts 28: 14-15 ) While Walton agrees that Luke ’ s main concern is apolitical, he believes that “ there is too much politically sensitive material for this view to be tenable when Luke-Acts is read in its first-century settings, both Jewish and Greco-Roman .”
Strategic points, he says, not the defeat of the enemy's army, decide the fate of one's own country, and must constantly remain the general's main concern, a maxim which was never more remarkably disproved than in the war of 1809.
Its main concern is with explicating the dharmas constituting reality.
" The comedian made statements to the press in which he claimed money was not his main concern, but that he was " simply making hay while the sun shines.
Mehmed ’ s main concern with Constantinople had to do with rebuilding the city ’ s defenses and repopulation.
* Within Medicine, the Lungs are the main concern
Many historians maintain that the main concern of Pope Urban II, when calling for the First Crusade, was the threat to Constantinople from the Turkish invasion of Asia Minor in response to the appeal of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos.
It asserted the doctrine that the main concern of the nation's government ought to be the nation's common people.
The main concern with fly-by-wire systems is reliability.
The Principia is one of the main inspirations of the movement against ethical naturalism ( see ethical non-naturalism ) and is partly responsible for the twentieth-century concern with meta-ethics.
The British government's strategy was to estrange the clan chiefs from their kinsmen and turn their descendants into English-speaking landlords whose main concern was the revenues their estates brought rather than the welfare of those who lived on them.
Let us review the three main knowledge domains of concern here:
Within Geneva, Calvin's main concern was the creation of a collège, an institute for the education of children.
The main macroeconomic concern is inflation, which at 13 percent remains high for the region.
Weber's main intellectual concern was understanding the processes of rationalisation, secularization, and " disenchantment " that he associated with the rise of capitalism and modernity and which he saw as the result of a new way of thinking about the world.
The main concern of the first years of Martin's pontificate was the resumed war against Braccio da Montone from 1423.
Rotation of the body over the bar occurs naturally, and the vaulter's main concern is making sure that his / her arms, face and any other appendages do not knock the bar off as he / she goes over.
The main concern was contamination of the water, but the papers went to great lengths to note the care taken to avoid this.
* Red Shift Ltd, the name of the main industrial concern in the book by Samuel R. Delany, Nova ( novel )
4 ) The main area of concern during Phase 2 is the issue of interconnection.

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