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Strategy

noun

An elaborate and systematic plan of action. Synonym: scheme.

The branch of military science dealing with military command and the planning and conduct of a war.

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... uncontrolled vertical produces an effect on a par with a football carried straight across the field and placed on the goal line without opposition. All the strategy of the game is left out, and although the play produces the required effect in the score, a few repetitions of the procedure would soon clear the benches. The interest to the spectators and players alike enters in when the touch-down ...

— Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures • Henry Rankin Poore

... House said it didn't particularly care to know. DENMAN insisted; then the MARKISS, as usual, appeared on the scene, and moved that DENMAN shouldn't be heard for remainder of sitting. DENMAN, never at loss in Parliamentary strategy, wanted to move that the MARKISS's motion should be put from Chair on that day ten months. But LORD CHANCELLOR, well known to be in league with the MARKISS, promptly put question. Before DESMAN knew where he was (a not unfamiliar access of haziness) Motion put, declared to ...

— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, August 1, 1891 • Various

... them to slip away round to seize Tavieres, on the Mehaigne. George and his friend were thus separated, the latter being of those who remained in the swamp to keep up appearances. It was a clever bit of strategy, and, before Villeroy realized the truth, Tavieres had been rushed with a splendid charge. The fact that the attack on Anderkirk had been only a feint came to the French commander's understanding too late. ...

— With Marlborough to Malplaquet • Herbert Strang and Richard Stead

... and set the big hand forward ten minutes. If he used a little strategy, he could at least shorten the lecture by that amount ...

— A Son of the City - A Story of Boy Life • Herman Gastrell Seely

... interview, for it was the beginning of a new and strange experience to her. From the first, her high, chivalric spirit had been compelled to admire her enemy. The unknown manner in which he had foiled her sister's strategy showed that his mind was equal to his courage, while his hot indignation, when he found them threatened by a midnight marauder, had revealed his nature. Circumstances had swiftly disarmed her prejudices, and her warm heart had been full of sympathy for him as he lay close to the borders ...

— An Original Belle • E. P. Roe

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