Ridgeway's squad is deployed to a distant planet where workers at a lucrative and strategically critical mining operation have seceded and aligned with an opposing government.

"Changing times make an agreement with A.N.A. less strategically critical than it was before," said Kim King, a Delta spokeswoman.

Mr. Huntsman said the acquisition was "strategically critical" to the Huntsman Companies because it would complement its product line.

The Hudson River valley was a strategically critical area throughout the American Revolutionary War.

That's where he found Obal sitting in front of the big, concave bank of monitors with its closed-circuit views of every strategically critical area on the ship.

Thus it became logical to make him responsible for the defense of an entire, strategically critical sector, bordering on the debatable spaces between Empire and Roidhunate.

Extending its top-notch infrastructure inland, it is building 12-lane roads, sturdy bridges and international airports in this strategically critical area.

For the most part, troops from other ethnic groups within the empire were less likely to be placed in strategically critical positions and therefore had lower casualties.

And if he couldn't, the Federation would lose the strategically critical information Demmix was carrying.

The Romulans could lose the system and not be crippled if it came to that, but its position is strategically critical for them.