What's the difference between stratagem and strategic?

Stratagem


Definition:

  • (n.) An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In nearly every case husband and wife agreed on the choice of stratagem, a majority of the couples forming the sample opting for disassociation.
  • (2) This article contains a potpurri of surgically related stratagems, alternative techniques, and philosophies.
  • (3) The ready selection of rCD4-resistant variants has obvious relevance for rCD4-based therapeutic stratagems.
  • (4) Skills we develop in the clinical setting can be combined with practice audit to produce the ideal management stratagem.
  • (5) He suggests that this is the dynamic that drives unthinking partisan allegiance ("What's most distinctive about the current presidential election and our political culture [is] … how unconditionally so many partisans back their side's every edict, plaint and stratagem"), as well as numerous key political frauds, from Saddam's WMDs to Obama's fake birth certificate to Romney's failure to pay taxes for 10 years.
  • (6) Abraham also posited an alternative stratagem for government to cash in on Channel 4, which is allowing it the financial freedom to invest and grow the wider UK creative economy.
  • (7) The hypothesis of asymmetric otolith function asserts that physiological or anatomical differences in the two sides of the bilateral gravity-sensing otolith apparatus of the inner ear may be well compensated on Earth, but when exposed to novel gravitational states, the prior compensatory stratagems may be ineffective, leading to unstable vestibular responses and causing the phenomenon of space motion sickness.
  • (8) The model stipulates that given exposure to sustained aversive maternal control and a maternal communication style which is subtle and devious, the child comes to adapt with approach, stratagem-based behaviours and heightened vigilance for evaluative information (i.e.
  • (9) The use of a differential probing stratagem, based on the hybridisation of specific oligonucleotides to either pUC13 polylinker or unaltered PYK 3' UTR sequences, allowed for discrimination between mutant (plasmid borne) and wild-type (chromosomal) PYK transcripts.
  • (10) Recent pharmacological studies utilizing human intracranial artery preparations have addressed two distinct therapeutic stratagems.
  • (11) His inspired stratagem is to embrace the national rugby team, the darlings of the formerly ruling Afrikaners and, for most nonwhite South Africans, a symbol of brutal and humiliating repression.
  • (12) The implications of this observation pertain to toxicity effects when EDTA is incorporated into ocular drug products for stability purposes, or novel stratagems for improving ocular bioavailability of topically applied drugs are employed.
  • (13) Though the cabinet had rejected such a stratagem - dubbed Big Pines - in December 1981, Oxford professor Avi Shlaim suggests Eitan and Sharon aimed to implement it in stages, via Peace for Galilee.
  • (14) It is proposed that these changes in surface antigenicity constitute an evasive stratagem used by the parasite to deter the host from mounting a potentially lethal inflammatory response.
  • (15) This paper presents a series of stratagems designed to minimize the potential psychological problems of children who require dermatological surgery.
  • (16) The technical stratagems to model the nose are: (1) alignment of the premaxilla and (2) anatomic placement of the alar cartilages with sculpturing of the overlying soft tissue.
  • (17) Rotating the detector in close apposition to the head has required various stratagems to avoid detector-shoulder contact: the selective reduction of camera shielding, the use of long bore collimators, and the 30 degrees angulation of the camera head for slant hole collimation.
  • (18) In public, Walker employs moderate, conciliatory rhetoric, while privately, he gushes over more anti-union stratagems to come.
  • (19) These concepts may be important in designing treatment stratagems for intracellular pathogens.
  • (20) The slower antigenic change found for NA further supports the potential for NA-specific infection-permissive immunization as a useful stratagem against influenza.

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.)