What's the difference between execution and tactician?

Execution


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of executing; a carrying into effect or to completion; performance; achievement; consummation; as, the execution of a plan, a work, etc.
  • (n.) A putting to death as a legal penalty; death lawfully inflicted; as, the execution of a murderer.
  • (n.) The act of the mode of performing a work of art, of performing on an instrument, of engraving, etc.; as, the execution of a statue, painting, or piece of music.
  • (n.) The carrying into effect the judgment given in a court of law.
  • (n.) A judicial writ by which an officer is empowered to carry a judgment into effect; final process.
  • (n.) The act of signing, and delivering a legal instrument, or giving it the forms required to render it valid; as, the execution of a deed, or a will.
  • (n.) That which is executed or accomplished; effect; effective work; -- usually with do.
  • (n.) The act of sacking a town.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
  • (2) Ciarán Devane, Macmillan's chief executive, welcomed the rethink.
  • (3) Matthias Müller, VW’s chief executive, said: “In light of the wide range of challenges we are currently facing, we are satisfied overall with the start we have made to what will undoubtedly be a demanding fiscal year 2016.
  • (4) Richard Hill, deputy chief executive at the Homes & Communities Agency , said: "As social businesses, housing associations already have a good record of re-investing their surpluses to build new homes and improve those of their existing tenants.
  • (5) In order for the club to grow and sustain its ability to be a competitive force in the Premier League, the board has made a number of decisions which will strengthen the club, support the executive team, manager and his staff and enhance shareholder return.
  • (6) They have actively intervened with governments, and particularly so in Africa.” José Luis Castro, president and chief executive officer of Vital Strategies, an organisation that promotes public health in developing countries, said: “The danger of tobacco is not an old story; it is the present.
  • (7) Other recommendations for immediate action included a review of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the General Medical Council for doctors, with possible changes to their structures; the possible transfer of powers to launch criminal prosecutions for care scandals from the Health and Safety Executive to the Care Quality Council; and a new inspection regime, which would focus more closely on how clean, safe and caring hospitals were.
  • (8) Stringer, a Vietnam war veteran who was knighted in 1999, is already inside the corporation, if only for a few months, after he was appointed as one of its non-executive directors to toughen up the BBC's governance following a string of scandals, from the Jimmy Savile abuse to multimillion-pound executive payoffs.
  • (9) Lin Homer's CV Lin Homer left local for national government in 2005, giving up a £170,000 post as chief executive of Birmingham city council after just three years in post, to head the Immigration Service.
  • (10) The presence of an inverse correlation between certain tryptophan metabolites, shown previously to be bladder carcinogens, and the N-nitrosamine content, especially after loading, was interpreted in view of the possible conversion of some tryptophan metabolites into N-nitrosamines either under endovesical conditions or during the execution of the colorimetric determination of these compounds.
  • (11) It felt like my very existence was being denied,” said Hahn Chae-yoon, executive director of Beyond the Rainbow Foundation.
  • (12) Martin Wheatley will remain head of the Conduct Business Unit and become the future chief executive of the FCA.
  • (13) Evidence of the industrial panic surfaced at Digital Britain when Sly Bailey, the chief executive of Trinity Mirror, suggested that national newspaper websites that chased big online audiences have "devalued news" , whatever that might mean.
  • (14) Several types of neurons were differentiated on the basis of a study of neuronal activity in various parts of the cortex near the sulcus principalis during the execution of spatial delayed reactions by monkeys.
  • (15) The secretary of state should work constructively with frontline staff and managers rather than adversarially and commit to no administrative reorganisation.” Dr Jennifer Dixon, chief executive, Health Foundation “It will be crucial that the next government maintains a stable and certain environment in the NHS that enables clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to continue to transform care and improve health outcomes for their local populations.
  • (16) Roger Madelin, the chief executive of the developers Argent, which consulted the prince's aides on the £2bn plan to regenerate 27 hectares (67 acres) of disused rail land at Kings Cross in London, said the prince now has a similar stature as a consultee as statutory bodies including English Heritage, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and professional bodies including Riba and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
  • (17) Arizona on Wednesday executed the oldest person on its death row, nearly 35 years after he was charged with murdering a Bisbee man during a robbery.
  • (18) In an exceptionally rare turn, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, a panel appointed by the governor that is almost always hardline on executions, recommended that his death sentence be commuted to life in prison because of his mental illness.
  • (19) "We were very disappointed when the DH decided to suspend printing Reduce the Risk, a vital resource in the prevention of cot death in the UK", said Francine Bates, chief executive of the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths, which helped produce the booklet.
  • (20) Later Downing Street elaborated on its position, pointing out that Brooks was a constituent of Cameron's and, in any case, "the prime minister regularly meets newspaper executives from lots of different companies".

Tactician


Definition:

  • (n.) One versed in tactics; hence, a skillful maneuverer; an adroit manager.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A man with a secret strategy, or a serial tactician with no strategy worthy of the name?
  • (2) The senior Turnbull government tactician Christopher Pyne has said a double-dissolution election remains “a live option”, as the Coalition struggles to defend its handling of tax reform.
  • (3) Nor would the skilled tactician have forgone the opportunity to reiterate the now-familiar message that the economy is moving from "rescue to recovery".
  • (4) Peter Murrell, the party's chief executive and architect of the SNP's remarkable climb to dominance in Scotland over the past two years, said Labour had focused its best tacticians on the campaign, but not from within Scotland, but across the UK.
  • (5) But this latest reversal, which saw the budget unravelling within two days of being delivered – “We’re not wedded to these numbers,” said a Treasury source on Friday of the welfare cuts published in the budget red book – reminded backbenchers that his great strength as a political tactician can also be a weakness.
  • (6) That was also testimony to David Cameron's dependency on George Osborne as a shrewd reader of political situations, a cunning tactician and the back-room architect of much of Tory strategy.
  • (7) Here military tacticians were also trying to invent a new form of warfare, desperate to break the terrible stalemate that the trenches represented.
  • (8) Read more But as he mapped out his path to No 10, Osborne the tactician reckoned without the strength of feeling among many backbench Tory MPs – and their Eurosceptic constituents – about what they regard as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to throw off the shackles of Brussels.
  • (9) But though a brilliant tactician who ran rings around his peers and rivals in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo, confounded the Serbian opposition and outwitted an endless array of international mediators, Milosevic was a lousy strategist.
  • (10) He was considered his chief tactician, with Corretja providing advice mainly during the clay-court season.
  • (11) Osborne is a shrewd tactician and political escapologist, as he has proved many times.
  • (12) George Osborne’s reputation as a master political tactician may have gone the way of Leave’s £350m a week for the NHS, but the spectre of his misguided energy policy could haunt Britain for decades, and at Hinkley in north Somerset, for millennia.
  • (13) Each day the tacticians tot up a gruesome calculus of wins and losses.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Owen Jones video: Tory tax credit cuts are a work penalty Osborne likes to see himself as the master tactician; now he looks like the great blunderer: from Darth Vader to Benny Hill in a matter of days.
  • (15) Back in the 1970s, when players such as Jimmy Connors and Ilie Nastase cut a macho swath across the game, women were openly derided as inferior players and tacticians.
  • (16) Charles Antaki writes: "David Wall makes a good fist of a pro-van Gaal argument; certainly the man is clearly a thoughtful tactician, and a forceful enough personality to both instil his vision in his players and get them actually to implement it out on the pitch.
  • (17) The season is only midway through and the gaffer Ed Miliband and his chief tactician Cruddas are getting on pretty well.
  • (18) After Cantor fell, McCarthy showed himself a wily tactician, coming fast out of the block and letting it be known he was the heir apparent with the necessary votes, all but sealing the majority leader race within 48 hours.
  • (19) I believe it will require some level of special operators on the ground,” he said, “to subject Isis to high-profile, humiliating defeats, to sort of reverse this narrative that they’ve created that they are an invincible force.” Rubio said the size of such an American special operations force “would depend on our military tacticians to outline a strategy and tell us what the commitment would be.
  • (20) A master tactician, he lacked strategic vision and left little to his successors but the ruins of a political system he once played to his own advantage with consummate skill.

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