Sentence examples for strategic device from inspiring English sources

In the first major change confirmed for Broadway's "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," the critically panned Geek Chorus of narrators — a strategic device in the musical — will be cut altogether during the show's hiatus this spring, three members of the production said on Thursday night.

This uncertainty has also been a strategic device to deter secession by the anti-independence leaders.

McEnroe likes the technology, though he now believes players use the challenges not only to right wrong calls, but as a strategic device, either to gather themselves or throw off an opponent's rhythm.

Students struggling with academic writing may lack the ability to use intertextuality as a strategic device and create a woven text (Lee, 2010) and struggle with incorporating other's ideas and words with their own (Gu & Brooks, 2008).

If the reward is viewed as a strategic device that conveys information on some hidden, unpleasant, feature of the task the external incentive offered by the principal to the agent may reduce agent's effort and performance.

This assumption is convenient because it allows straightforward comparisons between patents and rewards but it is not confirmed by empirical studies, which stress that in many industries most firms use patents as strategic devices to trade technologies and to ease R&D collaborations.

It's a strategic biological device, a piece of moral machinery that enables genetically related individuals to reap the benefits of co-operation".

Following agreements between the Soviet Union and the United States to limit and reduce the number of strategic nuclear devices and the subsequent dismantlement of the Soviet Union into independent republics, research focused on the development of short-range, lighter, and more-portable SAMs to protect ground troops.

This game-theoretic analysis caused genuine consternation and fear on both sides during the Cold War, and is reputed to have produced some striking attempts at setting up strategic commitment devices.

Instead, new threats and opportunities can be better anticipated by looking beyond the facts to engage wider and deeper assumptions that operate as strategic framing devices that shape understanding of the present situation whether or not they are made explicit, or remain implicit.

"Yes, this was a surprise, especially considering how close it is to the recently announced strategic overhaul towards devices and services," said Sid Parakh, an analyst at McAdams Wright Ragen.