Chris C. Oynes, a senior administrator at the Minerals Management Service, cited a "distinct possibility" that when modern seismic work and drilling are done, the estimates will go up.
Moody's cited a "rising possibility" that no deal would be reached before the United States government's borrowing authority hits its limit on Aug. 2. On Thursday, Ben S. Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, repeated a warning that a "huge financial calamity" would occur if President Obama and the Republicans could not agree on a budget deal that allowed the debt ceiling to be raised.
Another partner is expected to participate, with the video rental company Blockbuster cited as a possibility.
Buzz had been swirling for weeks that Meryl Streep would play the Witch after she was cited as a possibility in an interview with Mr. Sondheim in the London Evening Standard.
A former Bank of America chief financial officer, he has been cited as a possibility for the CEO job there (it will be vacant come year end with the departure of Ken Lewis), but some say his active recruiting of Bank of America employees in the two years since he has been with GMAC soured his ties with the Charlotte bank's board.
Moody's, the ratings agency, threatened a credit downgrade, citing a "rising possibility" that no deal would be reached before the government's borrowing authority hits its limit on Aug. 2.
In a blog post on The New York Times Web site this year, Jun Morikawa, a professor of international relations at Rakuno Gakuen University in Sapporo, Japan, cited a "slight — very slight — possibility" that the Japanese government could move to end research whaling to strengthen relations with anti-whaling powers like the United States and the European Union, as well as Australia.
If we think that these support relations holding between one's evidence and the beliefs are themselves justifiers, then mentalism is compromised (though the mixed mentalist theory cited earlier as a possibility is not thereby affected).
The latest warnings followed two others, including a vague threat of an attack on an American warship in September and another in the spring that cited the possibility of an attack by a militant Egyptian group.
During his presidential campaign, Mr. Bush often cited the possibility of an attack by North Korea as a reason that the United States needed a missile defense system.
(The Massachusetts court cited the possibility of receiving a future inheritance as an example of a "mere expectancy" too speculative to be a factor in a divorce case).
