But ecosystem lock-in was never the strong force it was cracked up to be.
According to an idea called technicolour, if it were instead made up of all-new kinds of quark held together by a new interaction, akin to but distinct from the strong force, the need for fine-tuning disappears.
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Most of the 1500 strong force deployed to Bahrain were Saudis.
They do not feel the strong nuclear force.
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Mr Soulsby, 24 years a Washington policeman and boss of the 3, 600-strong force for the past two years, resigned in tears on November 25th.
The country created 150, 000 jobs more than it lost last year, but the 26m-strong labour force expanded by almost the same number.
The Muslim Brotherhood has been a strong force since the end of colonial rule in the 1940s and it now dominates 12 of the 24 major professional unions, and has a strong hand in another six unions.
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And like the regime in Teheran, Hizbullah was able to use force and the threat of force to not only strong-arm its way back into the Lebanese government, but to guarantee itself control over the Lebanese government.
Father Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman, pointed out to journalists that the Vatican's security officers - the famed ceremonial Swiss Guard and the 150-strong police force - are there to serve the pontiff, not to restrict his movements.
Angolan and Zimbabwean troops and aircraft stopped the 6, 000-strong rebel force at the gates of the capital, Kinshasa, in late August.
Observers say poor service conditions, inadequate home leave, low pay and a communication gap with superiors all contribute to low morale in the million-strong force.
Security Council recently approved sending more than 3, 000 troops to bolster the 17, 000-strong peacekeeping force already in the region.
Church choirs from across Ethiopia sang and danced next to the casket, amidst a strong security force presence around the church.
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This year, however, Paul decided to focus the class on Africa, and with China becoming such a strong force on the continent, he thought the class might appreciate hearing about Africa and its development from the China perspective.
For a minute they stared at each other, and then Mami let the bill go, the force between them so strong the paper popped.
The recognition that a strong Israel is the most stabilizing force in the region is perhaps the main casualty of the Left's land for peace narrative and the two-state solution paradigm which wrongly promote the weakness of Israel as the foremost potential contributor to stability in the region.
The new president wants to get this military challenge under control -- hence the strong and quick use of force -- so he can focus on the bigger picture, which remains hazy.
British Defense Minister Michael Portillo said all NATO nations were determined to adhere to the 12-month time limit for the 60, 000-strong Implementation Force (IFOR) to remain in the former Yugoslavia.
But it is surely no coincidence that Mr Verheugen is pressing more strongly than ever these days for the creation of a European force strong enough to intervene in crises where the Americans do not wish to be involved.
The presence of a 400, 000-strong occupational force has turned the state into an armed camp.
Equally importantly, the Higgs allows two of the four forces in nature -- the electromagnetic force and the weak force, which is responsible for most nuclear reactions -- to be unified and described by mathematics of the same type that describe the other two known forces, the so-called strong force and gravity.
Last week, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called on the Sudanese government to allow a strong UN peace keeping force into the region to restore order.
With the best equipment and training, this 50, 000-strong force may fight to the death.
For one thing, the 1, 500-strong "Task Force 72, " part of the international peacekeeping operation in East Timor, has been receiving plenty of favorable reports from the U.N.
The latest clashes come just as the United Nations is reinforcing its peacekeeping mission in the country, with a 3, 000-strong intervention force to take on the rebels, who have preyed on the region since the late 1990s.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was President Carter's national security advisor, says the U.S. has to help negotiate a cease-fire if it wants to get a strong international force on the ground.
Azizollah Rajabzadeh, Tehran's police chief, announced the creation of a 50, 000-strong constable-like force called the "honorary police officers" that will assist police units, state-run Press TV reported.
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Merrill has been busy promoting the advantage its advisor force (16, 000 strong by the way ) has by being able to cross-sell bank products from parent company Bank of America.
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