What's the difference between stratagem and strategy?

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.

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.