Sentences with phrase «force than strategy»

He's more about force than strategy, more about strangling the life out of his enemies than simply defeating them.

Not exact matches

The PGS platform promised genetic risk reports for more than 250 disease at the time — but, after the FDA smackdown, 23andMe was forced to stop marketing the service and pursue a piecemeal strategy of winning regulatory approval of individual tests.

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon's new National Defense Strategy lays out a world where great - power competition, rather than counterterrorism, will drive the department's decision - making and force structure.

This short time horizon forced business to remain liquid rather than having leeway to pursue long ‑ term strategy.

That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».

Although the history of home visiting spans more than a century, it emerged with renewed force in the 1970s as a promising strategy to promote child health and development, and reduce abuse and neglect in vulnerable, at - risk families.

Like a boxer trying to win on points rather than force a knockout, this strategy has underwhelmed some observers.

Haidt: Ultimately, the solutions to our polarization and political dysfunction will be legal and institutional changes which reduce the power of extremists in both parties, and which force the parties back to their traditional strategy of competing for the middle, rather than the strategy, used since 2004, of pleasing one's own base.

Meanwhile, the agriculture minister John Gummer, fresh from refusing compensation to the Liddells for the loss of their home, has promised a «national strategy statement for flood and coastal defence» which will seek to «work with, rather than against, the forces of nature».

Rather than force you to eat a certain number of meals each day, employing a flexible IF strategy allows you to eat WHEN you want, and as often as you want.

Her tour de force seduction of Doc, mostly performed while naked, uncorking a slow drip of role - playing, self - revilement, vulnerability, and desperate control that's indistinguishable from nihilistic abandon, expresses more about sex as a weapon and a survival strategy than a thousand footnoted treatises on the femme fatale in film noir.

For more than twenty years, my educational foundation has joined forces with teachers, parents, students, administrators, and business and community leaders to illuminate the most innovative learning strategies to be found in K - 12 classrooms across the country.

To give you a taste of what is coming in Part 2, the arguments can be summarized as: 1) Education does not lend itself to a single «best» approach, so the Gates effort to use science to discover best practices is unable to yield much productive fruit; 2) As a result, the Gates folks have mostly been falsely invoking science to advance practices and policies they prefer for which they have no scientific support; 3) Attempting to impose particular practices on the nation's education system is generating more political resistance than even the Gates Foundation can overcome, despite their focus on political influence and their devotion of significant resources to that effort; 4) The scale of the political effort required by the Gates strategy of imposing «best» practices is forcing Gates to expand its staffing to levels where it is being paralyzed by its own administrative bloat; and 5) The false invocation of science as a political tool to advance policies and practices not actually supported by scientific evidence is producing intellectual corruption among the staff and researchers associated with Gates, which will undermine their long - term credibility and influence.

During the 1980s, when desegregation was in full effect — with forced busing in some cities and less dramatic strategies elsewhere — the black - white achievement gap on the National Assessment for Educational Progress shrunk faster than it ever has before or since.

It forces retailers to compete on customer experience (quality of discovery and matching tools, community, purchase experience, library features) rather than price (predatory pricing from deep - pocketed competitors is the strategy to win here, at the expense of all other retailers and potential startup competitors.

«True, this is a slower moving strategy than trying to force publishers to accept Amazon's pricing model.

The extent to which a group of investors could use their votes to force a change in a company's management or strategy depends on more than just the number of votes per share.

In our estimation, the market faces no greater risk today than rising interest rates forcing these strategies to unwind, thus spiking interest rates beyond the control of the Fed.

By having a refund policy of this manner it could potentially force publishers to release more polished products rather than continue with their «patch it later» strategy.

The game is meaner and faster than its predecessor; most missions have timers that push you forward and force you to take risks, and the new alien types will break even your most time - tested strategies.

But few titles have had gameplay mechanics that convey heroism better than X-Com: UFO Defense (aka UFO: Enemy Unknown), the 1994 strategy game from Microprose where you led a multinational force — soldiers, scientists, pilots and purchasing officers — against an alien invasion.

Rather than feel clever for using the right attack against them, the frequent use of this sort of brute force approach to balancing makes the player feel like they're just playing along with the developer's «puzzle» rather than being able to devise their own strategy for victory.

Another Disney strategy would be to so thoroughly crush the competition so that your name and corporate style become synonymous with your product and automatically casts your competitors as inferior interlopers, forcing others to artless ape your style to try to compete rather than trying something new, ultimately leading to the decades - long stagnation of the medium across and entire country.

Taking player feedback on board, new maps will be more intimate and compact therefore forcing players to rely on strategy and team work rather than brute force. Bundled together as the Aftermath pack, the new arenas will cost you $ 5.99 and will hit the PSN this Thursday.

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So they have decided on a public relations strategy to blame «evil» power companies and «other polluters» for rate increases rather than their own actions in trying to force states to use expensive and unreliable «renewable» sources of electricity.

And finally, we will discuss strategies to reduce forces other than CO2 that are potent contributors to global warming, yet can be reduced quickly and with significant near - term benefits while buying the world time to reduce CO2 emissions.

The strategy of taking on more personal risk than developers of competing projects and forcing themselves to produce results before they could see any benefits is already bearing fruit.

The market was less than receptive to this approach, however, which forced some electronics makers to rethink their strategy and others to exit the game entirely.

Rather than opening up into a wider variety of viable strategies, however, players seem to be forced toward one style.

The Cointelegraph noted that Justice minister Park Sang - ki, who said earlier this week that the government is working on a bill to ban Bitcoin trading on domestic exchanges, is at risk of losing his job, as more than 60,000 citizens signed a petition voicing their support of his removal; minister Park is said to have acted independently and without having consulted the local task force in charge of regulating cryptocurrencies, or even the Ministry of Strategy and Finance (also a part of the task force that's currently being set up).

This is a prospective leader who realizes that intellect and strategy can be far more powerful than blunt force.

Fixing these limitations means that rather than creating an elegant mathematical solution, we need to rely on brute force simulation to get an answer, but in return the strategies coming out at the end are much more likely to tell us something useful in the real world.

• Dramatically improved effective resource utilization rate that saved more than $ 100 million in cost containment strategies, and successfully managed $ 500 million budget ensuring procurement of durable and expendable items for Joint Forces.

Some feel that this is a good strategy for finding a provider of their choosing, rather than being forced to stay within their insurance network.

Although the history of home visiting spans more than a century, it emerged with renewed force in the 1970s as a promising strategy to promote child health and development, and reduce abuse and neglect in vulnerable, at - risk families.

Alienating strategies include bad - mouthing or denigrating the other parent in front of the child (or within earshot), 2,3 limiting the child's contact with the other parent, 4 trying to erase the other parent from the child's mind (e.g., withholding pictures of the child with the other parent), 2 creating and perpetuating a belief the other parent is dangerous (when there is no evidence of actual danger), 2 forcing the child to reject the other parent, and making the child feel guilty if he or she talks about enjoying time with the other parent.2 The impact of these behaviors on children is devastating, but it also often has the opposite intended effect; parents who denigrate the other parent are actually less close with their children than those who do not.3