Local officials do not dismiss the terrorist threat, but many are trying to retool counterterrorism programs so that they focus more directly on combating gun violence, narcotics trafficking and gangs — while arguing that these programs, too, should qualify for federal financing, on the theory that terrorists may engage in criminal activity as a precursor to an attack.
Since 1999, Mr Evans has been directly involved in combating the threat from Islamic extremism and international terrorism.
On Sept. 10, John Ashcroft submitted a final Justice Department budget request calling for increases in 68 programs, none of them directly related to combating terrorism.
If CLN3 was directly involved in combating a particular class of ROS, then its loss might sensitize cells to the presence of additional ROS or to a reduction in glutathione, however generated.
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is weighing a military plan to directly arm Syrian Kurdish fighters combating the Islamic State, a major policy shift that could speed up the offensive against the terrorist group but also sharply escalate tensions between Turkey and the United States.
Successful cancer immunotherapy will most likely require the induction of comprehensive innate and Th1 adaptive immune responses that provide effector mechanisms able to directly kill tumor cells while combating the inflammatory/immunosuppressive responses induced by the growing tumor.
Hypercontractility of blood vessels can contribute to the hypertensive phenotype and present pharmacological approaches to combating hypertension focus, directly or indirectly, on the G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) within vascular smooth muscle regulating blood vessel diameter.
While he is skeptical about fighting such attacks with generally available security software, he did not directly discuss Microsoft's approach to combating them.
The new IE8 appears to be aimed at combating this decline by competing directly with the other browsers.
