But for some, there is little to be gained by maintaining a strategy that never was.
The president of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, chosen by the 14-nation bloc as mediator in the Zimbabwean crisis, has maintained a strategy of quiet diplomacy, pushing for negotiations between Zimbabwe's opposition and ruling parties, without criticizing Mr. Mugabe publicly.
In the final two weeks Mr. Romney has the challenge of maintaining a strategy of presenting himself as more reasonable and pragmatic than the image the White House built of him over the summer: that of an out-of-touch, job-killing plutocrat.
White House officials have criticized the Senate measure as unrealistic, and Science Adviser Jack Gibbons said pointedly during the award ceremony that the president has maintained a strategy of "fiscal responsibility" along with R&D investment.
As a party manager, Merkel maintains a strategy of keeping all options open as long as possible.
Fighting in several small-scale conflicts such as Operation Avalanche, Operation Mountain Resolve, and Operation Mountain Viper, the division maintained a strategy of small units moving through remote regions of the country to interact directly with the population and drive out insurgents.
Many respond by maintaining a strategy of delayed gratification that assumes things will eventually spontaneously get better.
However, maintaining a strategy like salt tolerance could be physiologically costly, for example due to the cost of producing osmoprotectants or increasing investment in reactive oxygen species scavenging and antioxidant production (reviewed in [ 28]).
Would he maintain a conciliatory strategy with the Republican-controlled Senate and Democratic-controlled Assembly in hopes of getting more legislation approved?
Plouffe and Daley want Obama "to maintain a pragmatic strategy of appealing to independent voters by advocating ideas that can pass Congress, even if they may not have much immediate impact".
