What's the difference between minerva and strategic?
Minerva
Definition:
(n.) The goddess of wisdom, of war, of the arts and sciences, of poetry, and of spinning and weaving; -- identified with the Grecian Pallas Athene.
Example Sentences:
(1) At no time did Hancock seek federal funding for this work “Prof Hancock did submit a research grant proposal to the DoD’s Minerva program in 2008 to study language use in support of US efforts to engage social scientists on national security issues, but that proposal was not funded,” explained Carberry.
(2) All patients were placed in Minerva braces postoperatively.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tim Pigott-Smith as the avuncular businessman Ken Lay in Lucy Prebble’s Enron at the Minerva theatre, Chichester, in 2009.
(4) The motion at each intervertebral level permitted by the halo jacket and the thermoplastic Minerva body jacket was compared in 10 ambulatory patients with an unstable cervical spine.
(5) Surgical correction of rotary instability should be considered as a possible therapeutic procedure after successful diagnostic stabilisation of the cervical spine by minerva cast.
(6) The stability of the spine was achieved with a minerva cast jacket, halo cast or spine fusion depending on the case.
(7) The advantages of the halo-fixateur therapy compared against extension and immobilization in Minerva gypsum are that secondary correction of positioning is possible; that functionally disturbing and extended spondylodeses are avoided; that care of the polytraumatized patient is facilitated; that X-ray films are easy to assess; and that the period of hospitalization is greatly reduced.
(8) The company spent last week in negotiations with its landlord, Minerva, to reduce or suspend its rent.
(9) Other US universities including Washington and Maryland are involved in studies directly funded and commissioned by Minerva and the DoD, while the US military also has its own in-house research institutions conducting further studies and projects.
(10) A Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacterium was isolated and grown in pure culture on artificial mediums from the leafhopper Draeculacephala minerva Ball which had fed on plants infected with Pierce's disease.
(11) The year 1965. starts with building of some new functional accommodations, in the year 1973. hotel "Terme" was built and 1981. hotel "Minerva", which is specially appropriated to the programme of the medicine of active recreation.
(12) The social network told the Guardian that the study was entirely self-funded and that Facebook is categorically not a willing participant in the DoD’s Minerva Research Initiative , which funds research into the modelling of dynamics, risks and tipping points for large-scale civil unrest across the world, under the supervision of various US military agencies.
(13) A detailed analysis of the programme by Minerva Research and Media Services reports "a dramatic positive impact", not only on the attitude and behaviour of participating students but also on the entire school.
(14) The thermoplastic Minerva body jacket offers a superior limitation of intervertebral movement compared with other commonly used braces, including the halo jacket, for most cervical spine injuries.
(15) The therapeutic procedures included: decompressive laminectomy, anterior fibula bone graft, Clowards' procedure and (minerva) exterior neck fixation.
(16) The type of orthosis that appears to offer the most efficacious immobilization and maximum patient comfort for fractures in the upper thoracic region in a body shell jacket extending from the submental and suboccipital regions to the lumbar region (modified Minerva jacket).
(17) Postoperative immobilization consisted of skull tong traction, minerva jacket, and halo apparatus.
(18) The thermoplastic Minerva body jacket also offered a substantial improvement in comfort for the patient over that experienced in the halo jacket.
(19) This report identifies some disadvantages of these orthoses, introduces the thermoplastic Minerva body jacket (TMBJ), and discusses its advantages in the rehabilitation of patients with cervical spine instability.
(20) Thermoplastic Minerva body jacket stabilization offered superior segmental immobilization compared with published data for the halo.
Strategic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Strategical
Example Sentences:
(1) "This was very strategic and it was in line of the ideology of the Bush administration which has been to put in place a free market and conservative agenda."
(2) The implications of the findings in terms of strategic tick control are discussed.
(3) It is also a clear sign of our willingness and determination to step up engagement across the whole range of the EU-Turkey relationship to fully reflect the strategic importance of our relations.
(4) Although there was already satisfaction in the development of dementia-friendly pharmacies and Pride in Practice, a new standard of excellence in healthcare for gay, lesbian and bisexual patients, the biggest achievement so far was the bringing together of a strategic partnership of 37 NHS, local government and social organisations.
(5) What is striking is the comprehensive and strategic approach they have.
(6) It is not clear whether Sports Direct, which has a history of taking strategic stakes in related companies including Debenhams and JD Sports, will now make a bid.
(7) But late last month, Amisom pushed them out of Afgoye, a strategic stronghold 30km from Mogadishu, where Amisom officials say the militants used to manufacture explosives used in attacks on the capital.
(8) The author uses an eclectic theoretical frame of reference which includes some elements of psychodynamic, object relations, and structural and strategic family therapy theory.
(9) BAML said that it does not expect "revolution" in ITV's strategic announcement next week, more "evolution", but did say that "advertising alone is no longer enough to maximise the value of ITV's audiences".
(10) The levy would also confirm the dramatically changing nature of Pakistan's ties with its western partners, from a strategic alliance to a transactional relationship, with deep suspicions on both sides.
(11) There is also another climate to consider, the regional strategic environment.
(12) Its diplomatic machinery is a little bit rusty," said Zhu Feng, of Peking University's centre for international and strategic studies.
(13) It is, I suppose, a form of "participant-observation," but the participation involves developing an overall strategic approach to the community's perceived problems.
(14) Her experience includes roles as strategic marketing director for both Google and ITV, and as CMO of Clear Channel Outdoor.
(15) The research found bad news for the government about the reception given to its road safety policy, outlined in a strategic framework document published this time a year ago.
(16) [The US] is our friend and strategic ally and you can't just treat a friendly country's representatives like this.
(17) France was meanwhile leading a push, which diplomats said was backed by Britain, to hit more strategic military targets in Libya, beyond tactical airstrikes on Gaddafi's armour in the vicinity of cities such as Misrata and Ajdabiya.
(18) One of the clients, Vladimir Makhlay, a businessman who fled to the UK in 2005, agreed to pay New Century Media £75,000 a month for strategic advice – "including support for Mr Makhlay's application for a British passport".
(19) We are not back to the Cold War but we are far from a strategic partnership,” he said.
(20) I thought the Wikileaks party presented an historic, strategic opportunity for an intervention into electoral politics.)