Far from the "jayvee team" Barack Obama suggested as a metaphor for the Islamic State in January 2014, this entity has morphed into a most serious and capable military threat, transcending the conventional description of such Islamist phenomena as terrorist non-state actors.
Until Ball can improve into an average shooter, he'll be a liability on the offensive end and teams will sag off him to guard other, more capable offensive threats.
He played three games for the unbeaten and untied 1943 Purdue football team where he was described as "a capable triple-threater and stellar defensive performer".
Wesley Matthews and Nicolas Batum -- both ace defenders and capable shooting threats -- round out a Portland unit that is athletic, quick and unselfish.
If we were facing an equivalent military threat capable of killing untold numbers of Americans, there might be presidential commissions and tens of billions of dollars in appropriations, not to mention magazine cover stories.
Ward said that he, Droughns and Ahmad Bradshaw, a rookie from Marshall, made up a three-man backfield threat capable of producing the yardage that Jacobs was expected to provide.
For the regime, the MEK poses the most serious threat capable of leading the popular protests towards democratic change, because of its presence in Ashraf along the Iranian border and vast organizational capabilities inside Iran.[27].[27]
And that's Nixey's and writer/producer Guillermo del Toro's particular skill here -- that they take a ridiculous notion (rat-monkeys living in the vents) and turn it into an unnerving threat, capable of serious mayhem.
For tanking purposes, Protection is the sole spec. Warrior tanks are still the most solid single target tanks in the game, as they are capable of generating threat quite easily, and can manage incoming damage more easily than most other classes.
Proposed as a project capable of alleviating threats for Europe in the future, this anti-missile shield should not create new threats far more serious than the notorious "Iranian missile threat".
