What's the difference between generalship and strategy?
Generalship
Definition:
(n.) The office of a general; the exercise of the functions of a general; -- sometimes, with the possessive pronoun, the personality of a general.
(n.) Military skill in a general officer or commander.
(n.) Fig.: Leadership; management.
Example Sentences:
(1) Britain's most powerful television executive has not given an exact timetable for his departure, but friends say he acknowledges that he has entered the final chapter of his eight-year director generalship and is "psychologically ready" to leave a job that paid him £779,000 last year.
(2) Well, no-one could claim Shorten’s own generalship, as displayed during his AWU years, represented any sort of “working class rebellion” – faux or otherwise.
(3) "It is important we recognise the leadership and generalship of Sir Douglas Haig in commanding what was the largest land force ever to leave these shores," he said.
(4) Ofcom also said that Ed Richards, its chief executive, would not be formally recusing himself from any decisions regarding Newsnight - despite speculation that the regulator could again become a candidate for the vacant BBC director generalship.
(5) And while Wellington's generalship and the courage of his motley collection of soldiers held Napoleon's 72,000 men at bay through the day, it was only the arrival of more than 45,000 Prussian troops under Marshal Blücher that turned the tide and drove the French from the field.
(6) "Amano's director-generalship began under a bad star," said Mark Hibbs, a nuclear expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace .
(7) After years of communities, activists, scholars and the government working to make issues of race and policing part of the national conversation, a Sessions attorney generalship would effectively end cooperative efforts between federal and local governments on issues of police reform and accountability.
(8) The director generalship is not decided in the newspapers."
(9) In a profile he wrote many years ago of the legendary Post editor Ben Bradlee, Remnick remarked: 'Generalship is not about fighting the battle; it's about inspiring the enlisted.'
(10) The absence of candidates with management and editorial experience has led to speculation that the traditional role of editor in chief could be separated from the director generalship, but the dual function is written into the royal charter so it is unlikely that will be a practical solution.
(11) The much criticised executive spent the last days of his short-lived director generalship preparing intensively for his appearance, which is expected to last several hours, and comes as the Pollard inquiry moves into its third week of evidence, having seen most of the senior BBC executives touched by the Savile film that never aired.
(12) Thompson was initially piqued that Patten had begun to talk so openly about a BBC without him in charge, and his initial response was to have the BBC issue a statement saying that there was no vacancy for the director generalship, as he hoped to concentrate on preparations for what he describes as the biggest year in the BBC's history, with the diamond jubilee in June and the Olympics in July.
(13) Some of the most excoriating criticisms of British generalship, even the case for fighting in 1914, come from military historians mostly associated with the Conservative side.
(14) "The director generalship is a very big job, and you have to grow into it.
(15) Through the director generalships of Greg Dyke and Mark Thompson this message has never been explicitly reversed in the way it should have been.
Strategy
Definition:
(n.) The science of military command, or the science of projecting campaigns and directing great military movements; generalship.
(n.) The use of stratagem or artifice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet the Tory promise of fiscal rectitude prevailed in England Alexander had been in charge of Labour’s election strategy, but he could not strategise a victory over a 20-year-old Scottish nationalist who has not yet taken her finals.
(2) Parents of subjects at the experimental school were visited at home by a community health worker who provided individualized information on dental services and preventive strategies.
(3) All subjects completed the Coping Strategies Questionnaire, which measures the use and perceived effectiveness of a variety of cognitive and behavioral coping strategies in controlling and decreasing pain.
(4) After a discussion of the therapeutic relationship, several coping strategies which have been used successfully by many women are described and therapeutic applications are offered.
(5) Elderly women need to follow the same strategies as postmenopausal women with more emphasis on prevention of falls.
(6) Its articulation with content and process, the teaching strategies and learning outcomes for both students and faculty are discussed.
(7) 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.
(8) In order to develop a sampling strategy and a method for analyzing the circadian body temperature pattern, we monitored estimates of the temperature in four ways using rectal, oral, axillary and deep body temperature from the skin surface every hour for 72 consecutive hours in 10 normal control subjects.
(9) We describe both the three supportive psychotherapeutic steps, which may last months to years including subsequent dynamically psychotherapeutic strategies as well as the reactions of the auxiliary therapist function on the students.
(10) This article describes a method of selecting a potentially successful strategy using a combination of two factors: change target and level of change willingness and ability.
(11) C. parasitica mutant strains deficient in the production of endothiapepsin (eapA-) were constructed using a gene-replacement strategy.
(12) Cocktails of two or more BsAbs, selected to bind to multiple epitopes on ribosome-inactivating proteins and perhaps also on unwanted cells, could provide an important new strategy in immunotherapy.
(13) Changing conditions call for each Community Mental Health Center (CMHC) to develop a survival strategy based on its own standards and values.
(14) To confront this evil – and defeat it, standing together for our values, for our security, for our prosperity.” Merkel gave a strong endorsement of Cameron’s reform strategy, saying that Britain’s demands were “not just understandable, but worthy of support”.
(15) Although this operational classification does not produce etiologically homogeneous groups, it is believed to have pragmatic utility with respect to planning targeted surveillance and management strategies.
(16) Although a variety of new teaching strategies and materials are available in education today, medical education has been slow to move away from the traditional lecture format.
(17) Probably a mixed strategy will be to reduce the risk of HIV or IVDUs.
(18) Our studies suggest that the applicability of the HPRT gene probe strategy may be limited by (1) the low frequency of informative cases and (2) potential inappropriate methylation of the HPRT gene in a proportion of cases.
(19) The need for follow-up studies is stressed to allow assessment of the effectiveness of the intervention and to search for protective factors, successful coping skills, strategies and adaptational resources.
(20) The independent effects of pain and pain coping strategies, as well as the interaction effects between pain and pain coping strategies on depression, were evaluated cross-sectionally and prospectively over a 6-month interval.