What's the difference between planning and tactician?

Planning


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plan

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The measure destroyed the Justice Department’s plans to prosecute whatever Guantánamo detainees it could in federal courts.
  • (2) National policy on the longer-term future of the services will not be known until the government publishes a national music plan later this term.
  • (3) One of the main users is coastal planning organizations and conservation organizations that are working on coral reefs.
  • (4) The dramas are part of the BBC2 controller Janice Hadlow's plans for her "unashamedly intelligent" channel over the coming months.
  • (5) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
  • (6) A tiny studio flat that has become a symbol of London's soaring property prices is to be investigated by planning, environmental health and fire safety authorities after the Guardian revealed details of its shoebox-like proportions.
  • (7) However, as the plan unravels, Professor Marcus's team turn on one another, with painfully (if painfully funny) results.
  • (8) We are pursuing legal action because there are still so many unanswered questions about the viability of Shenhua’s proposed koala plan and it seems at this point the plan does not guarantee the survival of the estimated 262 koalas currently living where Shenhua wants to put its mine,” said Ranclaud.
  • (9) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
  • (10) Critics say he is unelectable as prime minister and will never be able to implement his plans, but he has nonetheless pulled attention back to an issue that many thought had gone away for good.
  • (11) Amid the passionate discussion at the NDA meeting, the two women began to develop a plan.
  • (12) Obamacare price hikes show that now is the time to be bold | Celine Gounder Read more No longer able to keep patients off their plans outright, insurers have resorted to other ways to discriminate and avoid paying for necessary treatments.
  • (13) Labour MP Jamie Reed, whose Copeland constituency includes Sellafield, called on the government to lay out details of a potential plan to build a new Mox plant at the site.
  • (14) But the Franco-British spat sparked by Dave's rejection of Angela and Nicolas's cunning plan to save the euro has been given wings by news the US credit agencies may soon strip France of its triple-A rating and is coming along very nicely, thank you. "
  • (15) In late May, more than 50 residents of Ust-Usa protested the effects of oil drilling and plans for a new oil well near the village.
  • (16) This technology will provide better information to the surgeon for preoperative diagnosis and planning and for the design of customized implants.
  • (17) All staff can participate in the plan but payouts for directors are capped at £3,000.
  • (18) Sixty-five conditional PSROs are implementing review in acute care hospitals in their geographic area, and 55 planning groups are developing plans to qualify for conditional PSRO designation.
  • (19) He also plans to build a processing facility where tourists can gain firsthand experience of the fisheries industry, and to open a restaurant.
  • (20) The planned development (october 1989) is also depicted.

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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