The internet presents new opportunities for terrorists and we must ensure we have the capabilities to confront this challenge.
In parallel, Iran has used all its capabilities to confront the United States.
The World Health Organization's universally-accepted International Health Regulations provide the basic framework for countries to strengthen capabilities to confront potential public health emergencies of international concern by building core capacities and networks that can prevent local public health crises from becoming international catastrophes.
In the years ahead, the international community will almost certainly be expected to bring its formidable technical knowledge, skills, and analytic capabilities to confront this expanded global health threat environment (9 ).
Blair wrote in the Sunday Times: "We must build military capability able to confront and defeat the terrorists wherever they try to hold territory.
As NATO's strategic commander responsible for transformation, I am confident that the decisions taken at Chicago will enable the alliance to acquire and maintain the capabilities needed to confront an uncertain future.
They've been reassured for months by parents who are trying not to burden them, or who don't want to confront their own diminished capabilities, or who may not be fully aware themselves that they're losing ground.
The reality of tens of thousands of Russian troops assembled along Ukraine's border has forced the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to confront long-deferred issues about its capability — and collective will — to respond to aggressive moves by Moscow.
Western defense officials have said that 40 to 50 percent of the Qaddafi forces' striking power has been degraded, and with it almost all the capability, in fighter aircraft, missiles and antiaircraft batteries, that Libya had to confront an aerial invader.
The one scenario that we all refuse to confront is the possibility that it is beyond our capabilities to stop this undersea blast of oil.
