"If the nation decides that it wants to place at risk certain targets that emerge, and that if you need to strike those things in a very prompt manner -- 35 to 45 minutes -- a ballistic missile gives you that capability," General McMahon said.
There were fresh indications in Washington meanwhile that President Barack Obama and his national security team are pulling back from ordering aerial strikes in support of the Baghdad government, not least because US intelligence has yet to find certain targets that would warrant such action.
With respect to the action of the whole venom, the extraordinary specificity of the conopeptides indicates that every single peptide is a "specialist" optimized for a certain target and that only the concerted action of the different peptides present in the venom results in the biological action needed for the achievement of the predatory life of these snails.
According to one official from the group, it is near certain that the official target that underpinned the debt restructuring agreement last spring will need to be revised.
The experts noted that true Qaeda operations tend to have certain similarities -- particularly a spectacular target that will create maximum publicity at minimal cost.
We believe that this heuristic will be useful to consider synergies that might be anticipated in testing that involves certain target sites for disruption and/or mixtures of chemical constituents that are being considered for procarcinogenic effects.
Thus, the scores for relevance were used to identify the specific terminal objectives that should be restricted to certain target audiences (ie. those that are not relevant to all healthcare workers).
In both systems, these waves return echoes from certain features or targets that allow the determination of important properties and attributes of the target (i.e., shape, size, speed, distance, etc).
"It's still a little early, but we are reasonably certain we killed the target that we intended to kill, which is Jihadi John.
Besides, literature mining indicated that certain target genes played potential roles in root development.
