But leading an army of soldiers who are trained to respond to the strict and linear military discipline necessary to survive and succeed as a cohesive fighting force under dire combat conditions is not the same as leading a department largely composed of civilians who have lives outside their work, and for whom military discipline is, at best, tolerated, and, at worst, ineffectual in execution.
For Bukoshi and Surroi, the biggest challenge facing Kosovan politicians is to combat dire economic conditions and a high rate of unemployment.
And sometimes rage is necessary to combat some dire threat.
To combat these dire warnings, Footsteps affiliates launched a video project in 2010 called "It Gets Besser" ("besser" is Yiddish for "better"), meant to echo the viral "It Gets Better" campaign, which sought to encourage at-risk L.G.B.T. youth.
But even Goldman has been caught flat-footed by the crisis, struggling with liquidity, turning itself into a bank holding company and even, at one dire moment, struggling to combat rumors that it would be the next to fall.
To combat such a dire capsize circumstance, he said Club Med is equipped with substantial water-ballast tanks in each bow.
The Air Force routinely responds rapidly to urgent calls from ground forces in dire circumstances — with the unrivaled combat precision and reliability airmen routinely bring to bear.
The President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, has announced plans for a major mandatory fingerprinting system to combat the increasingly dire food shortages and rampant smuggling afflicting the Latin American state.
Now, business-minded Gazans importing goods into the Strip not only have to pay Israeli taxes on goods, but also a considerably high "social support" tax recently ordered by Gaza's Hamas run-government to combat the increasingly dire financial situation.
He looked to Venezuela's leftist president, Hugo Chávez, for aid to combat his country's dire poverty a situation exacerbated by rising food prices.
With his state facing invasion, he returned to New York to help organize the new state government and to combat 'plots, conspiracies, and chimeras dire' as a member of committees dealing with loyalty and security issues, including the notorious Hickey Plot.
