For me, it sets the same admonitory precedent as the phrase "I'm not racist, but …" The statement "I'm not anti-immigration, but they should learn English", if left unchallenged, can become a dangerous criterion by which some people decide which foreign nationals they'll tolerate, and which they won't.
While the much-tortured Abu Zubaydah may or may not be too dangerous to release – the criterion that a multi-agency Guantánamo tribunal known as a Periodic Review Board (PRB) will evaluate later this month – he knows a vast amount about CIA torture, which makes his ultimate release doubtful.
As revealed in a Department of Justice white paper in February, the Obama administration justifies drone strikes with fairly limited criteria, a dangerous precedent for the rest of the world to follow.
Further, this thinking is dangerous because it obscures the definitive criterion necessary in evaluating the realisation of Martin's Dream for African Americans in the 21st century and beyond: wealth.
Accordingly a predictive tool that uses this criterion might therefore be dangerous.
She argued that while dangerous procedures should be outlawed, the criteria for legal abortion should be removed from the Crimes Act.
The standard recommends that in dealing with the dispersion of the lightning current into the ground, the shape and dimensions of the earthing system are the important criteria to minimize any potentially dangerous overvoltages.
Schroeter contends that the ultimate criterion for determining whether something is dangerous, for example, is whether it is liable to cause harm, where harm can be understood in response-independent terms, such as loss of bodily integrity (Schroeter 2005: 343).
As Bloch and Reddaway note, there are no objective reliable criteria to determine whether the person's behavior will be dangerous, and approaches to the definition of dangerousness greatly differ among psychiatrists.
On the left, it is apparent that athletes running a high training volume (100 km/week) would require a full 20 km of running in MFW to meet the criteria which would present a possibly dangerous exposure.
Using integrated criteria of standard indices for the identification of potentially dangerous glacial lakes (PDGLs), the lakes were found to be vulnerable and have a potential to cause breaching in the coming years.
