Right now the only credible threat to Home Depot's dominance of hardware retailing is Lowe's Cos.
The credible threat of suicide by a pregnant woman would also be considered grounds for an abortion.
The heightened security comes despite the lack of specific and credible threat information relating to the event.
The distinction between communications which constitute a credible threat and those which may merely cause offence is sorely needed.
Would Russia go along with a strategy that would need the credible threat of sanctions to back it up?
Even so, numerous government officials say they know of no specific, credible threat of a new attack on U.S. soil.
This advantage helps them to issue a credible threat to cut prices.
The Irish cabinet has reached agreement on a controversial bill on abortion that will include the credible threat of suicide as grounds for a termination.
But after the 1980s, the Sena organisation had grown and begun aiming for power in the state and became a credible threat to the Congress.
In Brussels, Belgian police recently increased security around NATO facilities and officials, but U.S. officials say they are unaware of any specific and credible threat there.
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The Irish government is expected to confirm in the near future that it will legislate for the credible threat of suicide as a grounds for an abortion.
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"While we are still looking at the message closely, there is no reason to believe any specific or credible threat is contained in it, " the official said.
They believe that some police officers are not using the laws properly and are picking up people because of the way they look, rather than on hard evidence of a credible threat.
In a repeated-game-context, the best strategy is to always present a credible threat to your opponent so he will quickly understand it is better to pay you to go away than to engage in protracted battle.
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Fine Gael is the largest partner in the Irish coalition government but several of the party's politicians have expressed unease about the proposal to legislate for the credible threat of suicide as a grounds for a pregnancy termination.
The South Americans remained the more likely to score, but they were either wasteful or unable to beat Enyeama, who kept his side as a credible threat in the match with further impressive saves from Higuain and Messi.
The guidance says that if someone posts a message online that clearly amounts to a credible threat of violence, specifically targets an individual or individuals, or breaches a court order designed to protect someone, then the person behind the message should face prosecution.
Newly elected Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and top law enforcement officials had two messages for LA residents at a morning briefing today: There is no credible threat against Los Angeles right now, and they've been preparing for this for a long time.
Their assumption seems to be that a real default (and along with it a triggering of the credit default clauses in all those CDS contracts) would be a bad thing for the banks and thus a credible threat to get them to line up for the voluntary version.
Still, both have a responsibility to understand that any hope this country has of deterring and, if necessary, of defeating chemical attack will lie not in wishing the threat away but in remaining prepared to deal with it -- both through defensive measures and through the credible threat to respond in kind.
Forrester's Jaquith says there's no reason to believe that those attacks have become a credible security threat in the real world until that motive appears.
"That's why I believe that we need a strong and credible military threat coupled with the sanctions to have a chance to change that situation, " he added.
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There is no specific, credible terror threat, the agencies said.
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U.S. intelligence sources received a credible domestic terrorism threat against the United States, Attorney General John Ashcroft said Monday.
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On May 28, the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department issued a joint statement citing "credible intelligence" of a threat to the nation.
Now that the KHL is an established league and competes with the NHL for players, the threat to leave is more credible than ever.
For the threat of predation to be credible, the monopoly's managers must be rewarded in ways tied to output, not short-term profits (because profits would suffer if the threat were carried out).
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