If one side launched a first strike, the other threatened to answer with a devastating counter-strike.
McVeigh was an unmoored ex-soldier who thought that federal power had run amok, the military had been corrupted and that the only answer was a devastating attack on a federal building in Oklahoma.
Since early in the cold war, they have been pinned to the chilling concept that a nuclear attack on the United States, and perhaps a chemical or biological attack, would be answered with a devastating nuclear strike.
Torain answered two minutes later, using a devastating stutter step and chance-of-direction move to freeze his defender for Navy's third goal of the game.
The onset of drought was a devastating blow, yet in an ironic twist, Rebecca says, "It was the answer to my prayers".
The harsh answer, argues Richard Millet, a novelist and editor, in his recent book, "Harcèlement Littéraire", a devastating assault on the contemporary French novel, is that "French literature has become a desert".
The decision was a devastating blow to Zaid, who says he's spent over $12,000 waiting in limbo for an answer from the U.S. consulate.
Because it would have a devastating impact on low-wage earners who depend almost entirely on Social Security for retirement income.The third and best answer is progressive indexing.
IT IS a devastating prospect.
