And then second, he seemed to surprise even Senator Levin by saying that China and Russia, in that order, pose the greatest threat to the United States.
At least in the initial days after his arrival, he appeared to pose the most serious threat to the system since the "memo-gate" affair - a dubious scandal built around a controversial Pakistani memo that allegedly requested American intervention to cut the Pakistani military down to size.
The ignorance that Jefferson believed would pose the greatest threat to the survival of liberty was on prominent display in the video.
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Sean Davidson will conduct an assessment for the Scottish Business Crime Centre (SBCC) to help it tackle crimes which pose the greatest threat to Scotland's economy.
And where necessary, through a range of capabilities, we will continue to take direct action against those terrorists who pose the gravest threat to Americans.
But the leader of one secular party says the Islamists pose a threat to the country.
But Russia does not pose the existential threat to America that Leonid Brezhnev's Soviet Union once did.
That cynicism could pose the greatest threat to Mahathir's attempts to reassert his authority over the long term.
Web-based attacks pose the greatest threat to companies, giving credence to efforts to develop browser alternatives to accessing the Internet.
Such capabilities concentrated in the hands of undemocratic regimes pose the only real threat to the physical security of the United States and its allies.
The notion that it is these smaller, tens-to-hundreds of metres-sized objects that pose the greatest potential threat to Earth is explored in the BBC feature article Can we know about every asteroid?
Knowing that these forward deployed artillery and missile forces pose the greatest threat to the South if not taken out, U.S. and South Korean forces hammer North Korean emplacements north of the DMZ.
This vague term is never defined and could cover a range of ideologies that, while capable of causing harm, do not pose the preeminent threat to our national security today that lslamist extremism does.
The president approved new policies this week that appeared to stiffen requirements for strikes stating, for example, that the U.S. will only target suspected terrorists who pose a "continuing and imminent threat to the American people, " rather those who pose a "significant threat to U.S. interests, " the standard outlined by the White House in 2012, according to administration officials.
As was highlighted during the State Visit, we are committed to working with Mexico to go after the cartels that pose a threat to communities on both sides of the border.
The Center for Security Policy's analysis of the situation gives rise to a concern that, despite their expected setback in the national voting, the communists continue to pose a significant threat to the consolidation of democracy in Czechoslovakia.
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Clearly China and Russia do not represent our biggest adversaries in the world today, or the nations that we perceive to pose the greatest threat in terms of their intent to harm U.S. interests.
The ageing of practitioners and the dwindling number of artisans capable of making some of the instruments pose a further threat to the transmission of the tradition.
But the theory that oral bacteria pose a threat to the heart is another subject of intense medical debate.
Critics took issue with the college's account, saying the seated protesters did not pose a threat to the officers.
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As charter members of what the Center for Security Policy calls the Radical Entente, these nations pose a threat to the United States and every other civilized nation a category Messers.
As charter members of what the Center for Security Policy calls the Radical Entente, these nations pose a threat to the United States and every other civilized nation -- a category Messers.
Many learned of the news through microblogs, demonstrating the threat they pose to the Chinese government's hold on vital information.
Ultimately, FBI investigators determined the travelers implicated by Sariol did not pose a threat to the airline.
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"I did not join the Army to go to Iraq, a country that had no part in the September 2001 attacks and did not pose a threat to its neighbors, much less to the United States, " Young wrote in his letter.
The banks, on the other hand, are likely to pose a much bigger threat to the Internet brokerages.
At a minimum, President Clinton must order intensified FBI surveillance of the Nation of Islam in order to minimize the threat it might come to pose to public safety and the national security.
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Because the actions of persons threatening the peace and international stabilization efforts in the Western Balkans continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, the national emergency declared on June 26, 2001, and the measures adopted on that date and thereafter to deal with that emergency, must continue in effect beyond June 26, 2012.
Eight thousand miles of this will be the high-speed tracks that pose the most potent threat to airlines.
She is unlikely to be let out again before the poll as she could, some say, pose a real threat to the EPRDF in Addis Ababa and other cities.
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