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.

They had believed his strategy to be flawed before, but now they thought him to be as wise as the gods.

Most historians sharply criticize Davis for his flawed military strategy, his selection of friends for military commands, and his neglect of homefront crises.

Ross ' strategy was flawed because it was susceptible to the United States ' making a treaty with a minority faction.

* In reference to the 2007 " surge " strategy in Iraq: " The best we can do with this flawed approach is to stave off defeat "

That it was a flawed strategy is explained by P. J.

Adams argues that the ML-1 design and implementation was flawed due to its strategy to produce an advanced, highly efficient, easily transportable closed-cycle nitrogen gas turbine prior to producing a simple closed-cycle nitrogen gas turbine that worked.

Despite this, Management finally had to admit that which was so clear to others ; their strategy was flawed and destructive and the receivers were called in.

He was apparently disliked by almost all of the people on the March and his tactics and strategy were flawed.

Such a method is of course adequate if the opponent indeed uses a stationary strategy, while it is flawed if the opponent's strategy is non stationary.

The traditional strategy of the South has been to expose the vices of the North, to demonstrate that the North possessed no superior virtue, to `` show the world that '' as James's Christopher Newman said to his adversaries ) `` however bad I may be, you're not quite the people to say it ''.

Note, however, that many municipal bonds are callable, and that this imposes substantial additional risks to the strategy.

The double-cross strategy applies however many long chains there are.

The US version, however, has since 2001 taken on a significantly different format from the others in their second season, with a far stronger emphasis on strategy, competition and voting, where the public does not choose who to evict.

Results of these tests are an objective measure of an athlete's fitness ; however, weight, technique and team coordination also impact performance in a boat, thus assembling a crew based purely on erg scores is not an optimal strategy.

Julian's strategy lay elsewhere, however.

IBM however refused and instead went with an " IBM First " strategy of promoting OS / 2 Warp and disparaging Windows, as IBM aimed to drive sales of its own software as well as hardware.

Nobunaga married Nōhime, the daughter of Saitō Dōsan, as a matter of political strategy ; however, she bore him no children and was considered to be barren.

In poker, the strength of a hand ( how likely it is to be the best according to the rules of the game being played ) is often called its value ; however, in the context of poker strategy the term is more often used to describe a betting tactic, a bet for value.

This, however, removed the effectiveness of the U-boat fleet, and the Germans consequently sought a decisive surface action, a strategy which culminated in the Battle of Jutland.

Westwood's greatest commercial success, however, came in 1995 with the release of the real-time strategy game Command & Conquer.

This attack strategy was eventually dropped, however, because of the death of the queen's youngest child, Sophie.

Non pharmacological strategies however, have long lasting improvements to insomnia and are recommended as a first line and long term strategy of managing insomnia.

Such licensed hunts were, however, forbidden in 2010 by IBAMA, which argued the necessity of additional studies for devising a strategy of pest control for boars.

Rawlings, however, responded to such criticism by restating the PNDC strategy and the rationale behind it:

From the perspective of others, however, the proposed airborne units had a key weakness: they required exactly the same resources as the new strategic bomber capability, another high priority, and would also compete with the badly stretched strategic air lift capability, essential to Churchill's strategy in the Far East.

To carry out this strategy, however, Athens needs far more warships ( that is to say the newly developed, specialised triremes ) than the 70 it has.

In the context of strategy video games, however, the difference is often reduced to the more limited criteria of either a presence or absence of base building and unit production.

This problem can be mitigated, however, by deploying an appropriate link budget strategy when designing the satellite network, and allocating a higher power consumption to compensate rain fade loss.

Its long-term strategy, however, is illustrated by the analogy of the three Siamese fighting fish Blofeld keeps in an aquarium in the film version of From Russia with Love.

The structure of the row, however, does not in itself define the structure of a composition, which requires development of a comprehensive strategy.

Under American guidance rendered by Dulles, however, Kolbe became a valuable source of quality information, e. g., regarding German secret weapons, coding, and war strategy.

Muir's strategy worked, however.

This strategy only works, however, if all the definitions are written in reasonably accessible language, which argues for some sort of defining vocabulary to be maintained in dictionaries aimed at language learners.