7 sentences with 'strategy'
Example sentences and phrases with the word strategy and other words derived from it.
• « The Romans wavered in this strategy, suffering the terrible defeat mentioned above in 216 BC, but as Hannibal's victories grew and some cities in Italy and Sicily began to defect to the Carthaginian side, they returned to it. »
• « His "grand strategy" was to seize territory from Habsburg Spain and Habsburg Austria by initiating a series of wars; he planned to force conquered populations to help pay for the wars and ultimately hoped to expand France to the Pyrenees in the south and the Rhine in the east. »
• « Surprisingly, Napoleon managed to raise even more armies, and France continued to fight for two more years. Increasingly, however, the French were losing, the coalition armies now trained and equipped along French lines and anticipating French strategy. In April 1814, as the coalition forces closed in, Napoleon finally abdicated. »
• « The tactical problem facing both sides was due to the new technologies of warfare: whereas in past wars offensive strategy was often superior to defensive strategy, in the First World War things were completely reversed. »
• « However, in 1916, British forces focused their strategy on capturing the eastern stretch of the Ottoman Empire: Mesopotamia, the site of the first civilisation in human history (which became the country of Iraq in 1939). »
• « The strategy worked wonders for me for a few weeks, but then she asked me: "What's wrong with you? // -Me? »