The Lebanese Cabinet decided only yesterday to let the troops move beyond the Litani River, which is a very strategic point.
"From a strategic point of view, it's (of) extraordinary importance having such a harbor which is connected with all of Europe, " Basescu said.
"From a strategic point of view, the logic of a deal looks indisputable, " Deutsche Bank analyst Marc Greenberg wrote in a note to investors.
Yet even from a strategic point of view, buying whole companies is not such a brilliant idea when the economy could be drifting into trouble.
"I'm really happy to get the silver medal, but I'm feeling slightly bitter because I had pinpointed the final bend as a strategic point, " said Ponzi.
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Given that 30%-40% more people have started visiting food pantries since the recession, food banks are now a strategic point of opportunity to improve health for poor families.
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Because here are the two major powers of East Asia who get along, if you like, economically, and are interdependent economically, and yet they have no way of dealing with each other from a long-term strategic point of view.
In every sector, innovative tech companies make their way into the value chain, focus on the most strategic point (usually client or user relationship), collect data, and leverage it to siphon off the profit margins from entire industries.
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Grove, 71, coined the metaphor "strategic inflection point" to describe the moment when an industry or company changes its trajectory.
The first possible example of a maritime attack that impacted the US was on September 13, 1814 when the British fleet staged an attack on the Port of Baltimore (they identified this as the most strategic attack point in the country).
Pundits often point to strategic decisions as drivers for startup success or failure, but the truth is that sheer work ethic is probably the more common determinant.
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He added that Mr Murthy's "entrepreneurial and leadership record and the long experience he has had as a technology pioneer makes him eminently qualified to lead the company and provide strategic direction at this point in time".
People familiar with the matter point to strategic reasons for the shift: risk diversification after Foxconn's manufacturing glitches last year with the iPhone 5 that resulted in scratches on the metal casings, and Apple's decision to expand its product lines amid growing competition from Samsung Electronics Co.
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This is not an abstract, philosophical, academic point, but a strategic purpose of great practical significance.
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Some people stop at this point and equate this strategic goal with the vision of the company, but that is not the case.
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But they point to a larger strategic failure that has crippled Israel's capacity to contend with the information war being waged against it.
More to the point, what would be the strategic implications if it will not happen in the near to medium term, even if American and other Western business dealings and investment might encourage political as well as economic liberalization in China over the longer term?
Michael Allenson, a senior strategic consulting director at Maritz, says the results point to the importance people now place on owning a tablet.
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Eric Knight has, not surprisingly, called it a "catastrophic strategic mistake, " and you can see his point, since it was only five years ago that HSBC was effectively placing a big bet on America's near-insolvent consumers.
However, they point out that it is not a core strategic consideration at this time.
You've been translating this and thinking about it at West Point, where the next generation of American strategic thinkers is being groomed, even as we speak.
From a conceptual point of view, the Ryan plan embodies two strategic errors.
Shares are a case in point, driven by foreign investors, oligarchs on strategic buying sprees and the fortunes of a few big firms, not ordinary Russians taking a sudden interest in the stockmarket.
Our restructuring efforts are designed to simplify our product development cycles, reduce our breakeven point and enable us to fund differentiated product roadmaps and strategic breakaway opportunities.
Another possible point of resistance in London and Washington may have been strategic: the desire not to recapitulate the problems of Diego Garcia, part of the British Indian Ocean territory.
The critical point is to leverage mergers and acquisitions as tools to accelerate strategic shifts, not as answers on their own.
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At that point, major players in the defense sector will need to contemplate strategic moves that significantly change the competitive landscape.
Thus, as critics of both the two-MRC standard and successive defense budgets would point out, albeit with entirely different emphases, continuous shortfalls in strategic lift, war reserve stocks, and specialized assets made the threat of a full-fledged second MRC less than totally credible.
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It had a vital strategic placement on a rocky bluff over the St Lawrence River, at the furthest point that ocean-going ships could venture from the Atlantic.
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