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"We are making sure that our collective defense capabilities and communications infrastructure are operationally and materially capable of deterring provocations from the full spectrum of state and nonstate actors," Mrs. Clinton said aboard the guided missile cruiser U.S.S.

Jackson curiously denies this, contending that: "the fact that South Korea is capable of self-defense does not mean it is capable of deterring North Korea on its own". Perhaps with Seoul's current capabilities, but there is no special gravitational field that prevents the country in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula from fielding a larger force.

Our results show that optimal social norms are capable of deterring free-riding behaviors and providing significant improvements in the sharing efficiency of multimedia P2P networks.

Piracy has become remarkably lucrative, and unless naval forces capable of deterring pirates and exacting costs upon them are present, the fishermen may simply continue to seize vessels and demand ransoms.

"We need to ensure that we will be able to develop and deploy and operate and support a highly effective force capable of deterring and defending against new threats," Mr. Rumsfeld said.

PARIS — As much as many Americans, the Swiss love their guns, seeing them as integral to their national traditions of self-reliance, independence and international neutrality, with a trained and equipped citizen-army capable of deterring any foolish invader.

We insist that NATO troops stay in the country until the necessary conditions are provided to establish stable local authorities capable of independently deterring radical forces and controlling the country.

Even then the administration of George W. Bush claimed in 2001 that it could not be sure of deterring "rogue states," should they acquire a crude long-range missile capable of delivering lethal warheads to the United States.

Those officials contend that American forces are capable not only of preventing Qaeda and Taliban forces from regrouping to destabilize the central government, but also of deterring powerful warlords from plunging the nation back into banditry and civil war.

The cost of deterring them is high.

In contrast, we predict that both pelagic taxa (those that remain in the water column throughout their lives) and nocturnally emergent taxa (those that ascend into the water column at night, but spend the day hidden in soft benthic sediment) will, if they are capable of detecting it, be deterred by reef noise.