Sentence examples for capabilities pose from inspiring English sources

China's economic and political clout continues to expand and its burgeoning anti-ship ballistic missile capabilities pose a particular threat to U.S. naval forces in the region.

Senator Jay Rockefeller, a Democrat who is privy to secret intelligence, spoke for the group in late 2002: "Saddam's existing biological and chemical weapons capabilities pose a very real threat to America now".

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican whip, took the floor to read at length from a 2002 speech by Mr. Rockefeller in which he said that Saddam Hussein's "existing biological and chemical weapons capabilities pose real threats to America today and tomorrow".

However, his new capabilities pose a threat to certain powerful forces who will stop at nothing to destroy him.

This may explain why senior US officials, including defence secretary Leon Panetta, have been highlighting the new strategic threat that North Korea's nuclear test and its enhanced ballistic missile capabilities poses to the US and the wider international community.

On Friday, South Korea's deputy defence minister for policy, Yoo Jeh-seung, told a nationally televised news conference that Seoul and Washington would quickly deploy the system because North Korea's growing weapons capabilities posed a big threat to the region.

In this context, the vexing question of corporate accountability for human rights abuses, and the dangers to human rights values and capabilities posed by overbearing corporate power, also present complex contemporary challenges for the future of human rights.

But even if we amend our conception of capabilities to accommodate these points, one might still deny that every reduction or threat to an individual's (basic) capabilities poses a social justice issue while otherwise working within the capability framework.

This intrinsic feature corresponds to the presence of numerous identical sequences in the genome, some relatively long (>3,000 bp), which, with previous sequencing capabilities, posed traditionally a big challenge in genome assembly and gap closure.

5. (C) Third, India's growing conventional military superiority, coupled with its Cold Start military doctrine of fast mobilization and rapid strike capability, poses a new level of threat, according to Pakistani counterparts.

Given the nation's bombastic threats to use force against the U.S. and turn South Korea's presidential house into a "sea of fire," anything that brings the government in Pyongyang closer to that capability poses security concerns.