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The risk in this strategy is that the shooter does not hit a seven for several rolls, leading to multiple come bets that will be lost if the shooter eventually sevens out.
The object of Li's strategy was to maintain a foothold on the Chinese mainland in the hope that the United States would eventually be compelled to enter the war in China on the Nationalist side.
Internal disputes over strategy and tactics eventually led to the ELF's fragmentation and the founding in 1972 of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front ( EPLF ).
While the Eisenhower administration approved of the strategy in general, LeMay continued to increase SAC ’ s independence by refusing to submit SAC war plans for review, believing that operational plans should be closely guarded, a view the Joint Chiefs of Staff eventually came to accept.
This strategy eventually led to an invasion by Haakon Haakonsson, King of Norway.
This attack strategy was eventually dropped, however, because of the death of the queen's youngest child, Sophie.
This strategy often resembles a " seed " model, whereby the beginnings are small but eventually grow in complexity and completeness.
This strategy often resembles a " seed " model, whereby the beginnings are small, but eventually grow in complexity and completeness.
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.
The Bellatrix project was extremely ambitious in its pervasive use of self-timed & pulse based circuits and the EDA tools required to support this design strategy, and was eventually terminated.
Vaccines currently in development may eventually become a critical part of the strategy to reduce the incidence and severity of diarrhea, particularly among children in low-resource settings.
During the 1968 campaign, LeMay became widely associated with the " Stone Age " comment, especially because he had suggested use of nuclear weapons as a strategy to quickly resolve a deeply protracted conventional war which eventually claimed over 50, 000 American and millions of Vietnamese lives.
When Microsoft eventually lost interest in OS / 2 as well, it based its further high-end strategy on Windows NT.
Indeed, Chamberlain now hoped that Balfour would fail in promoting his guarded fiscal doctrine, probably with a strategy of eventually leading the Unionists in opposition to the Liberals on a purely protectionist platform after the expected defeat in the general election.
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.
Geo-targeting treatments is part of a larger strategy to eventually eliminate lymphatic filariasis by 2020.
Using the guidelines established here, resources will eventually be allocated to new projects .... which then lead to a structured NPPD ( New Product & Process Development ) strategy.
The term parasitoid was coined in 1913 by the German writer O. M. Reuter ( and adopted in English by his reviewer, William Morton Wheeler ) to describe the strategy in which, during its development, the parasite lives in or on the body of a single host individual, eventually killing that host, the adult parasitoid being free-living.
Its new estate strategy which has already cost £ 150 million will eventually concentrate the university on three sites in north London.
In a hostile environment like this, turtling can be a viable strategy ; there is potential for unhampered research and limited growth while the other players battle amongst themselves, with the turtler eventually emerging to dominate the weakened opponents.
This strategy eventually led to an invasion by Haakon Haakonarson, King of Norway.
Peng developed a strategy with his Chief of Staff, Su Yu, to bombard the islands so intensely that the morale of their defenders would collapse, eventually leading to the islands ' surrender.

strategy and Nvidia
Nvidia has subsequently repeated this strategy with several more recent real-time female demo characters, including Nalu ( a mermaid ), Luna ( a cybernetic being ), and Adrianne, a digital representation of real-life model Adrianne Curry.

strategy and ATI
This strategy eventually resulted in the company ’ s engineers and graphics expertise being purchased by ATI ( now a part of AMD ) in December 1997.

strategy and cards
If a player has three of a kind and several other players have drawn new cards, one strategy is to draw only one card.
Often a card game is described as " pure strategy " and such, but a game with any sort of random shuffling or face-down dealing of cards should not be considered to be " no chance ".
Straight hands of five cards are sometimes used as a final showdown, but poker is almost always played in a more complex form to allow for additional strategy.
Similarly martial arts or even non-combat situations and adventures can be gamed where there are other objectives that require strategy combined with the elements of chance ( dice / cards etc.
A modified version of the game called " Thoughtful Solitaire ", in which the identity of all 52 cards is known, has a known solution strategy that works 82 % of the time but requires significant computing power.
Since it is to any player's advantage to eliminate failure cards from his opponents ' hands, a large part of the strategy of the game consists in bluffing: when one player attacks Doctor Lucky, it is in your interest to persuade your other opponents that you have no failure cards in your hand, to attempt to force them to save the game by spending the required cards.
This speeds the game up and adds a great deal of strategy to the late game when all of the failure cards have been removed from the deck.
As an illustration, the strategy board-games chess and Go have rigorous rules in which no information ( such as cards ' face-values ) is hidden from either player and no random events ( such as dice-rolling ) happen within the game.
* The number of cards that can be led to begin any trick is only dependent on the cards in the player's hand and his / her strategy.
Complex mortgages and credit cards had terms that made it easy for the least creditworthy borrowers to get financing, a strategy the bank extended in big cities, including Chicago, New York and Los Angeles.
Often players employing this strategy will look at their cards at the beginning to try to close out as many matching sets as possible by keeping four cards of different ranks in their hands.
3dfx executed a major strategy change just prior to the launch of Voodoo3 by purchasing STB Technologies, which was one of the larger graphics card manufacturers at the time ; the intent was for 3dfx to start manufacturing, marketing, and selling its own graphics cards, rather than functioning only as an OEM supplier.
If a hand is unbiddable and the cards needed to bid with are the cards needed for play, one strategy is to discard surprising cards such as all high cards of a given suit.
Although Magic: The Gathering is essentially a strategy game that uses decks of cards, an intricate storyline underlies the cards released in each expansion.
Instead, when a card or strategy was deemed abusive or too powerful, Decipher chose to release " magic bullets ," new cards which were specifically designed to counter the offending strategy.

strategy and built
The development of the tourism sector in Algeria had previously been hampered by a lack of facilities, but since 2004 a broad tourism development strategy has been implemented resulting in many hotels of a high modern standard being built.
The strategy of transport development in Kazakhstan until 2015 will be built 1600 km of new electrified and 2700 km of existing railway stations.
Emergent structures are a common strategy found in many animal groups: colonies of ants, mounds built by termites, swarms of bees, shoals / schools of fish, flocks of birds, and herds / packs of mammals.
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.
The City Point Railroad, built in 1838 between City Point and Petersburg, was used as a critical part of the siege strategy.
An example of this is the core memory used by Digital Equipment Corporation for their PDP-1 computer ; this strategy continued through all of the follow-on core memory systems built by DEC for their PDP line of air-cooled computers.
* 1890-Central American Mission founded by C. I. Scofield, editor of the Scofield Reference Bible ; Methodist Charles Gabriel writes missionary song " Send the Light "; John Livingston Nevius of China visits Korea to outline his strategy for missions: 1 ) Each believer should be a productive member of society and active in sharing his faith ; 2 ) The church in Korea should be distinctly Korean and free of foreign control ; 3 ) The leaders of the Korean church will be selected and trained from its members ; 4 ) Church buildings will be built by Koreans with their own resources
The Middle Kingdom was basically defensive in its military strategy, with fortifications built at the First Cataract of the Nile, in the Delta and across the Sinai Isthmus.
The name change accommodated Ford's strategy to rename all their cars to words beginning in F. The Freestar and its twin, the Mercury Monterey, were built in Oakville, Ontario, Canada.
The strategy relies on the idea that just as many StarCraft players may forget early invisibility detection ability to defend against more conventional attacks, many Red Alert 2 players might not have built any anti-aircraft defenses early in the game in order to defend against tank and engineer rushes more effectively.
But overall, the Manticoran fleet has become severely weakened, and she must devise a strategy to keep the Republic of Haven off balance until the fleet can be built up.
To meet these needs, Schlesinger built on existing ideas in developing a flexible response nuclear strategy, which, with the President's approval, he made public by early 1974.
Under political pressure to deliver victory, British leaders turned to launching their " southern strategy " for winning the war, that built on the idea that there was strong Loyalist sentiment supporting the southern colonies.
It was built around AD 50 to 60 as part of their strategy for the conquest of Wales.
One such hint was in July 1975, when in a public speech he made overtures to the civilian left — groups which included the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party ( EPRP ) and MEISON -- proposing a united front " of all the forces that rejected the ancient regime, built from the base, that is from the mass organizations born of the great reforms "; LaFort points out that this was " a strategy which Mengistu Haile Mariam and his supporters opposed and would continue to oppose more and more resolutely.
One driver this strategy appears to have worked for is Christijan Albers, who built a reputation by finishing second and third in the 2003 and 2004 championships with Mercedes-Benz and then graduated to Formula One in 2005.
He built a platform on the issue of community policing, a police strategy that involves active engagement with neighborhoods with such tactics as getting police officers out of their patrol cars.
A strategy study in 2002 stated a need for a new motorway to be built in the corridor ( as had been planned decades ago ) for a variety of reasons including the need to make suburban streets safer and less polluted.
( Forstmann referred to junk bonds as " wampum ") When the junk bond market later fell into disfavor as a result of scandal, Forstmann's criticism was seen as prescient, as his more conventional investment strategy had been able to maintain nearly the same level of profitability as companies such as KKR and Revlon that built their strategy around high-yield debt.
They are analogous to chess openings, in that a player will have a specific order of play in mind, however the amount the build order, the strategy around which the build order is built or even which build order is then used varies on the skill, ability and other factors such as how aggressive or defensive each player is.
Anticipating that Benetton would follow their usual strategy of not making a pit stop, Mansell built up a gap until he pitted for tyres at the end of lap 26.
Krishnadevaraya then planned for an invasion of mainland Kalinga-Utkal but the Gajapati Emperor, Prataparudra, privy of this plan had built up a strategy to rout the Vijayanagara army and along with it its king, Krishnadevaraya.
Finally, he embarked upon an ambitious strategy of signing world-class players from abroad, the most prominent of them being the signing of Alfredo Di Stéfano, and built the world's first truly multinational side.

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