But, Mr. Vietor added: "Unilateral, open-ended military action to pursue regime change isn't good strategy, and wouldn't advance American credibility anywhere.
The Stap phenomenon pushed the envelope of biological plausibility a bit too far, yet its appearance in Nature granted a hefty advance of credibility.
"We're advancing step by step, we're building credibility... this is reassuring French citizens and breaks the 'fear argument' that people use against us," Marechal-Le Pen told Reuters in a recent interview.
"Ratio- nal" means what it says: a proportioning of the hypothesis to the grounds for advancing it, a ratio between the degree of credibility and the strength of the evidence.
He said he shared the president-elect's "vision for restoring the credibility of the United States' foreign relations and advancing our country's national security".
Nobody with credibility would advance a theory that the current California Code serves any good purpose.
Most worryingly, for a movement born in the 19th century of organized labor's struggle for better working conditions and living standards, the belief in collective social progress has lost much of its credibility in mature advanced economies.
Moreover, the president proclaimed that the White House is empowered to unilaterally commence war not only to play Good Samaritan to the Milky Way, but also to advance "regional stability" or the "credibility" of the United Nations Security Council.
Since Congress enacted the ACA in 2010, the United States government has repeatedly pointed to the new law as evidence of its commitment to address racial disparities in access to health care, abide by its international human rights obligations, and advance the nation's global credibility on nondiscrimination in health care.
