On 21 July 2004, in the Delivering Security in a Changing World review of defence spending, Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon announced that three frigates of the fleet of sixteen would be paid off as part of a continuous cost-cutting strategy, and these were subsequently sold to Chile.

Client states paid tribute to the Aztec emperor, the Huey Tlatoani, in an economic strategy limiting communication and trade between outlying polities making them depend on the imperial center for the acquisition of luxury goods.

It was expected that the ABC loan would be discharged in June 2008 on its maturity and that the debt owed to Caliendo would be paid off " in early 2008 " in line with a funding strategy which Ecclestone publicly stated would not result in the wealthy owners simply bankrolling the club.

the two part tariff is another form of price discrimination where the producer charges an initial fee then a secondary fee for the use of the product, an example of this is razors, you pay an initial cost for the Gillette razor and then pay for the replacement blades, this pricing strategy works because it shifts the demand curve to the right since you have already paid for the initial blade holder you will buy the blades which are now cheaper than buying a disposable razor,

The strategy paid off as Sabre Wulf went on to sell over 350, 000 copies on the Spectrum alone.

This new strategy paid off with a 22nd Paulista Championship.

Four years later, in September 2001, the strategy paid off and the MEP won a decisive victory from the opposition.

Apple worked with DVcreators. net to host hundreds of free and paid Final Cut Pro seminars and workshops in 60 cities in the U. S., Canada and other countries over the following years, a strategy that some feel fundamentally contributed to Final Cut Pro's early awareness in the marketplace and rise in market share.

However, IBM's CMOS strategy paid off in the long run, allowing IBM's Poughkeepsie factory to produce even faster mainframes at lower cost as the technology matured.

The strategy paid off, as the Gold led the league in attendance during its inaugural season.

* the renewal of the communication strategy of the ACP, with special attention being paid to the mainstream and new media ;

In 2009, the then vice-chancellor Simon Lee resigned from his position following a series of controversies including ongoing arguments over the university's fees strategy, allegations of bullying and foreign travel for his wife paid for by the university.

A cornerstone of his political and economic strategy was the implementation by dictat of an agrarian reform program to expropriate farms and diversify land ownership, much of which had been concentrated in Haciendas ' owned by a small percentage of the population who previously had acted like feudal lords and paid starvation wages to the surrounding campesinos who worked on the haciendas ; these owners who opposed his program claimed that the expropriation was more akin to confiscation, as they were paid in non-tradable bonds that would eventually become worthless by the government's inflationary policies.

The strategy paid dividends as the company was acquired by EMC in 1999, primarily for the CLARiiON line of products.

Rather than capitulate, the manufacturers formed " the Shuttle Club ", a syndicate which paid the costs of any member brought to court ; their strategy of patent piracy and mutual indeminification nearly bankrupted Kay.

Once in the NFL, Sanders felt he deserved to be paid as much as NFL quarterbacks and in 1995 he used the " Prime Time " strategy to sign a seven-year, $ 35 million contract with the Dallas Cowboys ( the contract was essentially five years, but was given a seven-year length for an easier cap hit and the signing bonus was $ 12, 999, 999. 99, one cent under $ 13 million due to a superstition of Cowboys owner Jerry Jones ).

The strategy paid off, and Thomas guided Thunder into the play-offs, before they eventually went out to Workington Town.

Wingfield's strategy for growth included recruiting new members at football grounds, a tactic that initially paid dividends.

However his most effective campaign strategy was to emphasize how the affluent Brock, through skillful use of the tax code by his accountants, had been able to pay less than $ 2, 000 in income taxes the previous year ; an amount considerably less than that paid by many Tennesseans of far more modest means.

The strategy paid off as the project peaked at number 4 on the Billboard Top R & B / Hip-Hop Albums, number 20 on the Billboard 200, and sold over 300, 000 units with no video & very little radio play.

This strategy paid off.

His business strategy paid off, and in 1988, he was able to open his first bank in Dallas.

In the first decade of its operations Globes sold its contents through selling access to its archive or through a paid subscription, but recently the strategy was modified and the information is open to the general public.

Another strategy -- bolder and tougher -- was also attracting notice in Washington: a naval and air blockade to cut Cuba off from the world, destroy Castro.

This strategy was a success, and Knox and Reed were able to fend off all lawsuits that would have placed blame upon the club's members.

This " strategy " of the gradual dismantling Paramount's assets and library has continued under current Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman who not only split the company in half and gave the television library and distribution rights to the feature films to CBS, but also sold off the Company's music library, Famous Music.

He adopted the policy of retreating to natural fortifications, and undertook an early example of a scorched earth strategy by burning towns to prevent the Roman legions from living off the land.

* Diplomacy-( 1954 ) a classic multi-player game from the " golden age " of wargames in which strategy is exercised off the game board as well as on it.

The German historian Jost Dülffer wrote that Raeder would have been better off in preparing the Z Plan with following the advice of Commander Hellmuth Heye who had advocated in a 1938 paper a guerre-de-course strategy of Kreuzerkrieg ( cruiser war ) in which groups of Panzerschiffe and submarines would attack British convoys or Karl Dönitz who also advocated a guerre-de-course strategy of using " wolf-packs " of submarines to attack British commerence.

An even more harsher assessment of Raeder's decision to send the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau off the North Cape came from Murray and Millet, who wrote: " The Seekriegsleitung ... had lost none of its ability to confuse strategy with bureaucratic interest.

At liftoff the engine typically burns both fuels, gradually changing the mixture over altitude in order to keep the exhaust plume " tuned " ( a strategy similar in concept to the plug nozzle but using a normal bell ), eventually switching entirely to LH2 once the kerosene is burned off.

For investors, profitability can be enhanced by using an off plan or pre-construction strategy to purchase at a lower price which is often the case in the pre-construction phase of development.

Simply living off of scavenged canned food from London shops is not a viable survival strategy on a scale of years.

And by July 1997, the growth strategy pays off and Orange reaches one million customers with the lowest churn rate, and best margins among its competitors.

In the Seven Years ' War ( 1756 – 1763 ), Frederick the Great improvised a " strategy of exhaustion " ( see Attrition warfare ) to hold off his opponents and conserve his Prussian forces.

Roger Ebert gave the film one and a half stars and wrote, " The film has been directed without grace, vision, originality, and although you may walk out quoting lines of dialogue, it will not be because you admire them " and criticized its liberties with historical facts: " There is no sense of history, strategy or context ; according to this movie, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor because America cut off its oil supply, and they were down to an 18-month reserve.

In 1993, President Bill Clinton ordered a " Bottom-Up Review ," based on which a strategy called " win-hold-win " was declared — enough forces to win one war while holding off the enemy in another conflict, then moving on to win it after the first war is over.

A French Canadian fur trader, Jean Baptiste Cadotte, partner of the noted British-Canadian fur trader, Alexander Henry the elder, established the post as part of a strategy to ward off Hudson's Bay Company intrusion into the Red River Valley.

As the army outnumbered them completely, it was a battle of strategy and evasion ; eventually the blade of Ryushin's Naginata was cut off.

The Kirby – Paris interpretation of the theorem says that the Hydra will eventually be killed, regardless of the strategy that Hercules uses to chop off its heads, though this may take a very, very long time.

The Air Ministry found its existence threatened and resolved to fend off the attempts of the Admiralty and War Office to break up the RAF and recover the RFC and RNAS by offering a cheaper, innovative alternative strategy for British air power in the future.

* Wildcat General Strike: A strategy used for the 2009 Buy Nothing Day where participants not only do not buy anything for twenty-four hours but also keep their lights, televisions, computers and other non-essential appliances turned off, their cars parked, and their phones turned off or unplugged from sunrise to sunset.

He held off Schumacher, who was on a two-stop strategy compared to Montoya's one stop strategy until Schumacher's first stop.