WASHINGTON ― Donald Trump's campaign signaled Wednesday night that it may sue women accusing the GOP nominee of sexual misconduct, escalating its defense to new claims of Trump's predatory behavior published in The New York Times and elsewhere.
Marines could be called upon to evacuate Americans and other foreigners and provide other assistance if the crisis escalates, defense officials said.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 — The Bush administration escalated its defense of the National Security Agency's domestic wiretapping program on Thursday, even as Democrats in Congress vowed to investigate the program aggressively once they assume power.
Arms race is a specific form of coevolution that is characterized by escalating levels of defense and counterdefense in antagonistic interactions.
Investigation of molecular evolution at these various levels usually reveals diversifying selection and the selective maintenance of variation, resulting in positive selection at the genomic interfaces of escalating attack and defense systems [ 63].
In an evolutionary arms race, natural selection progressively escalates the defenses and counterdefenses of the species.
For his part, Pires sees a potential to harness the ability of the Brassicales to escalate their defenses by altering their genes to develop pest-resistant crops.
With the winding down of Mr. Bush's two wars, we could cut our ground forces to 1990s levels, reduce the planned purchases of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, make greater use of cheaper drones and other technologies, and deal with the escalating costs of the defense health care system — without serious damage to national security.
This process may repeat itself as the defenses and counter-defenses escalate.
Even in relatively simple organisms, learning sets off a continual process of escalating threats and adaptive defenses.
One reason defense systems are escalating is that the concepts are archaic, i.e., designed (by Congress or the military staffs) to fight the last war, rather than address the projected needs of the next war.
