What the government proposes is, rather, that operational decisions should continue to be taken by the police.
"This was a group of people who were aspirational rather than operational," she said of the plotters.
Terrorism experts have said the possible death of the British militant known as Jihadi John has dealt an ideological, rather than operational, blow to Isis.
Last month, Mr. Putin trimmed General Kvashnin's role by a presidential decree that reorganized the military's leadership, making the general staff subordinate to the Ministry of Defense and responsible for analysis and planning rather than operational command.
Whereas the intelligence work that led to the destruction of Bin Laden was begun in the Bush administration, the cache of schemes taken from Osama's Pakistan house debunked the fanciful narrative that the Bush crew pushed: that Osama was stuck in a cave unable to communicate, increasingly irrelevant and a mere symbol, rather than operational.
Since 9/11 Bin Laden has been of symbolic, rather than operational, significance to al-Qaeda.
In a prepared statement Schatz, who founded the company, expressed a desire "to focus on strategic rather than operational issues".
I've had discussions with the board and the most value I can add is on the creative side rather than operational side.
For Eisner and for the other officers working at the strategic rather than operational level, both annual and long-term incentive targets should focus entirely on the achievement of long-term strategy.
Due to these trends, the term "baseload facility", which classifies a plant by its duty cycle, can no longer effectively describe coal plants; using the term "steam plant", which reflects a technological rather than operational state, is more accurate.
