strategic

Example Sentences

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"Nations with strategic petroleum reserves may take action and release volumes if the disruption of the Strait risks being extended."

From Barron's

Crude futures rose as the armed conflict in the Middle East prompted shippers to avoid transit through the strategic Strait of Hormuz, but settled well off earlier highs.

From The Wall Street Journal

If a Chinese lab is first to discover that a specific structural alignment technique is also the next major capability breakthrough, the strategic consequences will last decades.

From The Wall Street Journal

Daoud said he expected Hezbollah to sit out the fight unless its patron was in existential peril, but added that what he called the group’s “measly opening salvo” made little strategic sense.

From The Wall Street Journal

"Typically, before launching such major operations, presidents and their senior advisers have explained to the American people the reason major military operations are required, and the strategic objective they are intended to achieve," Shapiro wrote.

From Barron's