The goal, according to several former intelligence and military officials, was not to achieve outright victory for Allawi — such an outcome would not be possible or credible, given the strength of the pro-Iranian Shiite religious parties — but to minimize the religious Shiites' political influence.
But this explanation was not credible given the strength of the researchers' commitment to open access.
Truly, Henry's rebirth as a credible actor goes from strength to strength … "It didn't catch fire with the audience but it wasn't what you could call a flop" – the BBC's comedy chief calls time on Ben Elton's The Wright Way.
In the United States the Democratic Party, whose policy under Truman was being reversed and the army and navy, whose budgets were being cut at the expense of the air force's Strategic Air Command charged that it placed undue reliance on nuclear threats, which would become less credible as Soviet nuclear strength grew.
First, as the PACOM commander, I must be ready to confront all challenges from a position of strength with credible combat power.
It seems reasonable, however, that the company's target market sectors have strength to be credible buyers in the Indonesian power business, since their business orientation is focused in the export market.
This was Mr Salmond's achievement, the unionist campaign's big weakness and, more through force of personality than any credible idea, it is Mr Farage's strength, too.
That's helping our reputation as a credible and successful investor in creativity go from strength-to-strength".
You must find a method that works for you, that builds on your strengths, that you feel credible using.
The society plays certainly use the form of 19th-century melodrama, but the richness of their characterisation transcends the convention, and the dialogue has a form and antithetical strength that always make for credible life on the stage.
