STRATEGIC in a Sentence

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A fifth group, displaying the profundity of their strategic perceptions, discussed the direction the troops would now have to take.

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 Meanings and Examples of STRATEGIC
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
strategic
 a.  important or essential in relation to a plan of action; essential to the effective conduct of war; highly important to an intended objective
Classic Sentence:
1  His own strategic plan, which obviously could not now be carried out, was forgotten.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XV
2  The troops retired from Vilna for various complicated reasons of state, political and strategic.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XII
3  A fifth group, displaying the profundity of their strategic perceptions, discussed the direction the troops would now have to take.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER III
4  Kutuzov's merit lay, not in any strategic maneuver of genius, as it is called, but in the fact that he alone understood the significance of what had happened.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER II
5  This strategic retreat in good order was not lost on a woman present or observed by a man.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  The same railroads which had made the town the crossroads of commerce in time of peace were now of vital strategic importance in time of war.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
7  I knew from the way Dr. Van Helsing was searching about that he was trying to seek some strategic point, where we would be less exposed in case of attack.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
8  As he was in the deepest of his strategic meditations, the door opened, and Rochefort returned.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 14 THE MAN OF MEUNG
9  And, in fact, the last letter he had received from Mack's army informed him of a victory and stated strategically the position of the army was very favorable.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III
10  And all these proposals, based on strategics and tactics, contradict each other.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER II
Example Sentence:
1  At the same time, the bank president said the money donated must be well spent, in a predictable, transparent, strategic and effective manner.
2  The document laid out a long-term strategic plan to dismantle Social Security.
3  He says the systematic settlement of land has been one of the strategic policies of the government in Darfur.
4  Focusing on originality is strategic in a culture that respects individual genius.
5  Sorry – but this is unconvincing from a moral or strategic point of view.
6  In Western eyes, Iraq is a major power in an area of great strategic importance.
7  They are pushing hard to improve their strategic nuclear capabilities.
8  The strategic and other planning considerations relate to the volume and timing of development and also more recent matters such as planning gain.
9  Regional managers occupy a crucial role in developing a strategic framework.
10  The defence team deployed peremptory challenges, which can be used by both sides for purely strategic reasons with no imperative to justify their use, to nix Indigenous people from being considered as jurors.
11  He was, of course, both humane and probably even saintly, but like another giant of history, he was also a shrewd and smoothly manipulative politician with a keen strategic grasp of pragmatic possibilities.
12  The fence is strategically sited to prevent anyone getting onto the beach.