He carries a card to authenticate his authority, and in the event of an emergency attack on the United States, with the help of military aides, he would have to make excruciating decisions in just minutes: whether the nation is under attack, how to retaliate, what targets to aim at, what weapons to launch.
However, despite emergency rule, attacks by extremists have continued unabated.
But even a botched coup could unleash devastating results: army crackdowns, a state of emergency, terrorist attacks and a suspension of civilian government.
Nigeria's president, Goodluck Jonathan, owes an urgent explanation to people living under a state of emergency while attacks increase, the governor said.
Over 37 million children and adolescents have been forced out of school by conflict and emergency and attacks on education have dramatically risen to levels higher than any point in the past 40 years.
Our enemy is not each other but the terrorists who attacked us, murdered our loved ones and continue to offer a threat to our security, safety and survival.... Catastrophic emergencies and attacks have acts of great heroism attached to them.
But Mr. Li, a robust man of 69, said he did not dare come to Atlantic City without protection: a small ceramic vial labeled, in Chinese characters, "emergency heart attack medicine".
He likens Housing First to improving the health of an emergency heart attack patient by putting him directly onto a treadmill.
P7 "Like the disabled, if we can have facilities, for old people, because the other day, I had to come to Emergency, asthma attack.
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