Typically, the more decisively the former is resourced relative to the latter, the more likely it is that hostile parties will be dissuaded from threatening us or our interests.
The cleaver was a reference to Mr Panetta's term for spending cuts threatening the US defence budget.
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By increasing the number of US dollars in circulation, or even by credibly threatening to do so, the US government can also reduce the value of a dollar in terms of goods and services, which is equivalent to raising the prices in dollars of those goods and services.
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He might be able to keep it in that range, with US Airways threatening bankruptcy and United close to the brink.
The European Commission is threatening to take the US to the World Trade Organisation if Mr Bush implements the controversial legislation.
Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer now proposes a new "international regime" to control and destroy weapons of mass destruction, as an alternative to the US strategy of threatening military force.
My story was written despite the enormous protestations of Mandell, in the form of numerous letters sent by his attorneys threatening to sue the pants off us if we ever dared publish anything.
Soon, genomic insights will give us early warnings about life-threatening illnesses that we may be able to prevent.
In total, RBS is facing unquantified claims over losses to shareholders, starting in the US, and with UK shareholders threatening action.
Satyam executives probably found the additional scrutiny by the PwC US team expensive, tedious, and threatening to their scam.
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This was a global banking crisis, and banks all over the world with big exposure to property - banks in Ireland, Spain, the US and elsewhere - incurred life-threatening losses.
Stress sweat is triggered by the same hormones, mainly adrenaline, that prompt us to react quickly when faced with a threatening situation.
We recently had a threatening letter from our local authority in an attempt to dissuade us from taking children out of school for holidays and stating the importance of the children not missing school.
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It is not, however, the for-profit colleges such as the University of Phoenix that have worried us for years, nibbling around the edges at our enrollments and threatening our monopoly.
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The NFL's tough response leads us to wonder how it will respond to another violence-related problem threatening the league: the growing concussion-driven Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy epidemic.
It keeps rolling as the antihero, studio production chief Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins), murders a screenwriter he thinks is threatening him, endures a police investigation, defends his corporate turf, and takes us through the process that can transform even a tough-minded flop into a potential smash hit.
It has thrown the US television industry into disarray, postponed production on several major films and is threatening to spoil Hollywood's annual awards season.
From director Michael Bay and executive producer Steven Spielberg, in association with Hasbro, Transformers: Dark of the Moon explodes with high-octane action when a mysterious event from Earth's past erupts into the present day threatening to bring a war to Earth so big that the TRANSFORMERS alone will not be able to save us.
ENGADGET: Transformers: Dark of the Moon Blu-ray due September 30th, 3D version later
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