The clash served notice, if any were needed at this volatile time in South Asia, that maintaining some sort of equilibrium in relations between Pakistan and India will be essential to waging a successful international war against terrorism.
For example, we are likely to see the development of the disruptive technologies essential to waging "cyber warfare" aimed at knocking out the electronic infrastructure on which nuclear and satellite-based defense systems rely.
Labour leader Ed Miliband has repeatedly accused the coalition of presiding over a "cost-of-living crisis", with inflation for fuel, food and other essentials outstripping wage rises.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe, writing in the Times, said having greater powers to access data was essential in waging a "total war on crime" - and he warned that police risked losing the fight against crime unless MPs passed a law enabling them to collect more communications data.
For the time being, said Jean Bernard Lemire, the new chief executive of Suez's Argentine affiliate, spending has been reduced to the essentials: paying wages, buying chemicals and energy, and basic maintenance.
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It so happens that Giuliani's essential premise for waging war on terrorists — this idea that firmness and an innate ability to scare your adversaries are more important than having, say, some new strategy for engaging Iranian moderates — also reflects the political reality inside the Republican Party.
"As of Day 14, the partial shutdown has cost $366,212 which would have supported provision of essential services, and wages to direct care and human service workers," Ryan Cowmeadow, advocacy manager, wrote in a draft letter to the area's congressional representatives.
MIAMI — Florida lawmakers contend that education is essential to high-wage jobs in the state, but the Legislature is again expected to slash millions of dollars from the budget for higher education and may usher in another round of tuition increases.
