KABUL, Afghanistan — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Monday that the United States was "well positioned" to begin withdrawing some American troops from Afghanistan in July, but he said that a substantial force would remain and that the United States was starting talks with the Afghans about keeping a security presence in the country beyond 2014.
If selection is a substantial force, we expect genes that are beneficial for females and either detrimental or neutral to males to be among the first to be eliminated from an evolving Y chromosome.
Jackson proposes to get around behind that army with a substantial force: Lee approves the plan and Jackson leaves.
I pray that some of those words have been a substantial force of change for someone in my audience.
By Jan . 15a substantial force should be in place, and the full force will be in place some weeks after that, the military official said.
Workfare participants and welfare experts say many New Yorkers fail to understand a significant fact about the program: the 34,100 people in the city's Work Experience Program constitute a low-cost labor force that does a substantial amount of the work that had been done by municipal employees before Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani reduced the city payroll by about 20,000 employees, or about 10percentt.
Last week, the two sides agreed to the final composition of a seven-member task force that has substantial authority to set the company's hiring and promotions policies.
by its nature, involves a substantial risk that physical force against the person or property of another may be used in the course of committing the offense.
The law concerns "aggravated felonies," a term that includes any offense "that, by its nature, involves a substantial risk that physical force against the person or property of another may be used in the course of committing the offense".
The disputed provision referred to "a substantial risk that physical force" may be used, but the justices said that was too vague.
