AQAP's ability to attempt fresh attacks against the U.S. has increasingly worried U.S. officials because of the instability in Yemen.

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This approach is seen as limiting Iran's ability to quickly attempt to produce nuclear weapons.

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But with improved protection from equipment such as ski body armor, is there a danger of being lulled into a false sense of security and to attempt something above your ability level?

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Its ability to adjust the benchmark rate, in an attempt to minimize the whiplash of recession, has the unfortunate effect of helping one goal at the expense of the other.

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Russia's patent military weakness (barring possession of unusable weapons of mass destruction, and the ability to sell advanced arms abroad) makes any attempt to flex its withered superpower muscles pointless.

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Plaid officials have said it is about using precisely the right phrase rather than attempt to symbolise the party's ability to straddle Wales's split personality, but it is hard not to see that in it.

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Thus the extended advance lead-in marketing is partially a product of the attempt to mitigate bad buzz that can hamper the ability of mediocre and bad films to at least break even.

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The combination of an endless wait for offshore drilling and severe rules that limit our ability to use these resources make it clear that current energy policy is an attempt by opponents of energy resource development to concede little now, for great political gains down the road.

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While the death may reduce al Qaeda's ability to plan attacks, the group still poses a danger and "remains the node most likely to attempt transnational attacks, " according to the annual U.S. intelligence community's threat assessment, released in January.

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