Rector was warming to his over-all strategy by the time he got back to the residential hall.

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.

Their strategy was sound enough and, he reasoned, had been defeated only by Philip Spencer's unwillingness to sanction an idea he had not originated.

In terms of war strategy, Lincoln articulated two priorities: to ensure that Washington was well-defended, and to conduct an aggressive war effort that would satisfy the demand in the North for prompt, decisive victory ; major Northern newspaper editors expected victory within 90 days.

The strategy of the anti-slavery forces was to stop the expansion and thus put slavery on a path to gradual extinction.

Lawry was sacked after the Sixth Test after the selectors finally lost patience with Australia's lack of success and dour strategy.

" The Liberal strategy was to create a large class of small land-owning farmers who supported Liberal ideals.

Many scholars see the persistence of Germanic Arianism as a strategy that was followed in order to differentiate the Germanic elite from the local inhabitants and their culture and also to maintain the Germanic elite's separate group identity.

One strategy adopted by both Sargon and Naram-Sin, to maintain control of the country, was to install their daughters, Enheduanna and Emmenanna respectively, as high priestess to Sin, the Akkadian version of the Sumerian moon deity, Nanna, at Ur, in the extreme south of Sumer ; to install sons as provincial ensi governors in strategic locations ; and to marry their daughters to rulers of peripheral parts of the Empire ( Urkesh and Marhashe ).

Alfred determined their strategy was to launch smaller scaled attacks from a secure and reinforced defensible base which they could retreat to should their raiders meet strong resistance.

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.

Since a -/- mutation in the APAF-1 gene is embryonic lethal, a gene trap strategy was used in order to generate an APAF-1 -/- mouse.

He was at the same time capable of forming and executing the most daring offensive strategy, and his tactical skill in the handling of troops, whether in wide turning movements, as at Würzburg and Zürich, or in masses, as at Aspern and Wagram, was certainly equal to that of any leader of his time, with only a few exceptions.

This was primarily a political strategy designed to give the Conservative party control of the reform process and the subsequent long-term benefits in the Commons, similar to those derived by the Whigs after their 1832 Reform Act.

Had the battle actually taken place in the true month of August, when the harvest was becoming ripe, Pompey's strategy of starving Caesar would not be plausible.

Borland had had an internal project to clone dBASE which was intended to run on Windows and was part of the strategy of the acquisition, but by late 1992 this was abandoned due to technical flaws and the company had to constitute a replacement team ( the ObjectVision team, redeployed ) headed by Bill Turpin to redo the job.

German strategist Carl von Clausewitz stated that " the employment of battles ... to achieve the object of war " was the essence of strategy.

MacArthur's strategy was chosen.

Hitler was a strong supporter of this new strategy.

However, the Luftwaffe was a broadly based force with no constricting central doctrine, other than its resources should be used generally to support national strategy.

The Wehrmacht's strategy was more in line with Vernichtungsgedanken, or a focus on envelopment to create pockets in broad-front annihilation.

The origins of blitzkrieg are in some doubt: if it existed, who contributed to it, whether it was part of German war strategy in 1933 – 1939.

A certain amount of socializing might typically be expected during game play, as opposed to the relative silence sometimes expected during some strategy games like chess and go or restrictions on allowable conversations or actions found in some highly competitive games such as contract bridge.

Zubrin's alternative to this " Battlestar Galactica " mission strategy ( dubbed so by its detractors for the large, nuclear powered spaceships that supposedly resembled the science-fiction spaceship of the same name ) involved a longer surface stay, a faster flight-path in the form of a conjunction class mission, in-situ resource utilization and craft launched directly from the surface of Earth to Mars as opposed to be being assembled in orbit or by a space-based drydock.

Reduced instruction set computing, or RISC (), is a CPU design strategy based on the insight that simplified ( as opposed to complex ) instructions can provide higher performance if this simplicity enables much faster execution of each instruction.

Owing to the fact that the great fleet envisioned in Plan Z existed only in blue-prints or had just began to be built, Raeder like Tirpitz before him in 1914 was forced to abandon his pre-war plans for a great naval battle in the North Sea, and instead embrace the guerre de course strategy that he had previously been opposed to.

Instead of the " Mediterranean strategy ", the German war machine was diverted to Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, which he vigorously opposed.

Although Nouvelle Résistance at first opposed the " national conservatives " of Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front, it changed strategy, adopting the slogan " Less Leftism!

The Item space activates mini-games specific to the board that allows someone a chance to collect an item, which is now used to further players ' board strategy ( as opposed to items being used to toggle universal settings in the first game where certain items appeared randomly during the board gameplay mode ).

Odo's return to the Great Link is partially intended to share with the other changelings the information he has about how the war concluded and what he knows from living with solids ; presumably, this is to change the goals and tactics of the Founders to a system that coexists with the solids as opposed to a strategy of domination.

The objective of Sauron's grand strategy was to defeat the strongest of the nations that opposed him, Gondor, and to do so he would need to take the capital city and greatest fortress of Gondor, Minas Tirith.

It was a strategy associated with the parties of the Second International and it was partly for this reason that it was opposed by those who wanted to break with Social Democracy.

All Command & Conquer real-time strategy games except Command & Conquer: Generals and its expansions have featured the " side bar " for navigation and control as opposed to many other similar games where the control bar is located on the bottom of the screen.

Bordiga resolutely opposed the Comintern's turn to the right in 1921 ; as General Secretary of the PCI, he refused to implement the " united front " strategy of the Third Congress.

Opposition to the strategy came from Brendan Howlin, Kathleen Lynch and Tommy Broughan ( who is regarded as being on the party's left wing and who advocated closer co-operation with the Green Party and Sinn Féin ), who opposed the boost that would be given to Fine Gael in such a strategy and stated their preference for an independent campaign.

The phrase " Rose Garden strategy " ( such as a re-election strategy ) refers to staying inside or on the grounds of the White House as opposed to traveling throughout the country.

During the Communists ' defense against Chiang's 1933-34 Fifth Encirclement Campaign, Lin advocated a strategy of protracted guerilla warfare, and opposed the positional warfare advocated by Braun and his supporters.

Indeed, the party lead was opposed to the strategy of the " proletarian unique front ".

Zhao opposed the annihilation strategy that other generals had proposed and which Emperor Xuan had initially approved, but instead advocated better treatment of the tribes and establishment of military settlements to better prepare for any future rebellions.

Gen. Alexei Evert, commander of the Russian Western Army Group, favored a defensive strategy and was opposed to Brusilov's offensive.

However, he grew increasingly opposed to the Heath government's economic strategy, which had seen a ' U-turn ' in favour of intervention in industry in 1972.

The earliest use of the actual term " starving the beast " to refer to the political-fiscal strategy ( as opposed to its conceptual premise ) was in a Wall Street Journal article in 1985 where the reporter quoted an unnamed Reagan staffer.

At the root of company's growth strategy is its licensee relationship, in which Save-A-Lot acts as a wholesaler to its independent store owners as opposed to a franchisor.

Discretionary Overlay managers have developed new trading methodologies that have evolved tax loss harvesting into a year-round strategy, as opposed to year-end, which is standard to most financial advisors, and is paramount in reducing the capital gains tax burden on affluent investors.

The U. S. Chiefs of Staff had strongly opposed this strategy as diluting the Allied focus in France.