Strategy number one is a three-part exercise geared to help focus the mind and also slow down the elevated heart rate associated with pressure.

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By any standard, including one I just quoted, the President has had substantial success in the number-one objective -- the number-one objective of his policy and strategy.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney

Observation number one, on strategy: What we've seen in this trip is the implementation of a substantial and important reorientation in American global strategy.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

He developed a strategy that made clear that our number-one priority, the reason why we are in Afghanistan, is because of al Qaeda, and that our number-one objective for our mission in Afghanistan is to disrupt, dismantle, and ultimately defeat al Qaeda, and that all other objectives that are secondary to that help support the primary objective.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

"It took us four years to become number one in Russia by utilising the attack strategy, " says Mr Wei.

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Mr. DIAMOND: Number one, I think that we have to have a strategy for Anbar Province.

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What this means is that the usual strategy of pouring resources into the small number of marginal seats that can swing an election one way or the other is of little use.

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In all the plans for redefining strategy in Iraq, there's one thing everyone agrees on: pumping up the number of U.S. combat advisors training Iraqi Security Forces.

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Samsung, which surpassed Apple as the world's largest vendor of smartphones in early 2012, maintained its number one position for the year by shipping 213 million smartphones worldwide, according to Strategy Analytics.

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