And given the recent run of economic data, inflation hardly seems an imminent threat.
But Mr Powell also stressed the dossier should not give the impression there was an imminent threat.
But even Democratic colleagues understood that the action was predicated on pre-emption, not on an imminent threat.
Seoul said the North was conducting its own military drills, but the activity didn't suggest an imminent threat.
The IEA is prepared to act when there is a significant supply disruption or an imminent threat thereof.
In fact, if Mr Bush detects an imminent threat, he does not need congressional approval to react to it.
If it becomes clear that that is no longer an imminent threat, will the President pull American forces out?
Last week the Foreign Office ordered British citizens to leave Libya's second city, Benghazi, after warnings of an imminent threat to Westerners.
The teams typically consist of two people, both armed with high-powered rifles, either of whom can shoot to deter an imminent threat.
Doctors already have a professional and legal responsibility to notify the authorities if they believe patients pose an imminent threat to others or themselves.
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He notes that interest rates are so low that the government can get cash cheaper than ever, and inflation is hardly an imminent threat.
Things may be better than last autumn when there was an imminent threat of a financial collapse but the recovery is built on very short-term foundations.
Friday's figures are a good sign that inflation is not an imminent threat for the Federal Reserve, but it's also a sign that economic recovery isn't steaming ahead.
Al Gore and other perhaps less divinely inspired modern-day Noahs continue to speak out about an imminent threat of floods posed by rising ocean levels resulting from melting ocean and glacier ice.
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So far not even Mr Blair has felt able to endorse either the American idea that Iraq is an imminent threat (as opposed to a longer-term one), or America's concept of pre-emption.
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As the declarations from the Intervenors make clear, the fear of disclosure of their reading, watching, and listening habits poses an imminent threat of harm and chill to the exercise of First Amendment rights.
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But recent amendments to the bill assuaged some of their fears by creating an exception for emergency situations, for example, when there is an imminent threat to public safety or to stop the destruction of evidence.
But for the most part he defended his spies fiercely, praising their work on Iraq's missile programmes, dismissing Mr Kay's idea that the survey group's work was 85% done, and denying that the CIA had deemed Saddam an imminent threat.
Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said the Foreign Office already warned of a high terrorism risk there and he would only warn against travel if there was an imminent threat of terrorism, an endemic threat or where law and order have broken down.
In a major policy speech Thursday, President Barack Obama raised the bar for U.S. lethal action against terrorist groups, saying the U.S. will strike only at those who pose an imminent threat to Americans, rather than at terrorists who threaten U.S. allies and interests.
While the proposed use of drones is for surveillance purposes only, the Security Council resolution authorizing UN operations in the DRC could allow for the drones to be armed and would authorize the use of force if necessary to protect individuals from an imminent threat of violence.
In wartime, a company is fending off an imminent existential threat.
Obama announced new "presidential policy guidelines" last week on the standards his administration has been using when deciding to launch lethal strikes, including a guideline to strike a target only if it presents an "imminent threat" to U.S. national security and only if the target cannot be captured.
"The standard is if you believe that your patient is an imminent, direct threat to another person, then you have to say something, " Caplan said in a telephone interview.
When environmental activists claim global warming is an imminent and alarming threat to humanity, their claims ring hollow when they oppose a cost-effective, environmentally friendly means of substantially reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
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Federal agents at first questioned Tsarnaev without reading him his Miranda rights, under an exception to the rule invoked when authorities believe there is an imminent public safety threat, a Justice Department official said over the weekend.
One of the questions the committee submitted to Brennan in advance of the hearing asked how it was determined that an individual was associated with al Qaeda and that a threat was imminent.
Paul Collingwood, the man perhaps most under threat by Flintoff's imminent return, came closest to an afternoon breakthrough, McKenzie getting a leading edge just short of a diving Kevin Pietersen at short mid-wicket.
Mount Rainier is also an active volcano - although there has been no activity since the 1850s and geologists say there is no imminent threat of eruption.
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