Sentence examples for strategic stance from inspiring English sources

Unlovely as some of this may seem, Arquilla's strategic stance has several virtues.

He managed the 1977 election campaign for the right-wing Likud's Menachem Begin, and became the first Likud defence minister.Yet his strategic stance was as pragmatic as his politics; and it was softening.

The United States, he told lawmakers in 2015, needs to "come out from our reactive crouch and take a firm, strategic stance in defense of our values".…General Mattis believes…that Mr. Trump's conciliatory statements toward Russia are ill informed.

Four of the research sites, the more prospective 'modernization' and 'professionalization' cases, respectively, developed such long-term consequences out of their strategic stance, in particular with reference to competence-related HR systems (workforce and leadership development).

(related to local history of modernization and strategic stance) High, prospective, opportunity-based Partially, or on specific bias Low, defensive, threat-based Outcome: which levels of effects/expected benefits of accounting change are in place, and why?

The BBC's Roland Buerk, in Tokyo, says the new strategic stance will be closely watched in Asia, where Japan's World War II aggression has been neither forgotten nor forgiven.

From a geo-strategic stance, Mr. Jin noted, China cannot cheer any expansion of the American military presence in the vicinity of Central Asia, as would occur if American troops entered Afghanistan.

The episode also appears to underline China's sometimes confusing foreign and strategic policy stance, with the armed forces often adopting more hawkish positions than the Foreign Ministry.

Commenting on the strategic blindness of this stance, Middle Eastern scholars suggest that the rise of the more militant Hamas group in Gaza itself resulted in part from Israel's earlier intransigence towards Fatah, when it was the governing party in the Palestinian territories.

There is a decent chance, environmental groups say, that upon reflection Mr. Bush will see merits in taking a historically aggressive stance on a strategic issue -- in this case the global environment -- much as another Republican president, Richard M. Nixon, did when he went to China.

His stance was both strategic and principled.