Each week they face a menacing antagonist bent on some plan for global domination or other -- sometimes the same villain again and again, in a pattern that Mr. Laird says is essential to the drama of the series.
Instead, as Cullen and Murphy make clear, everyone is complicit, from Bulger, who "considered himself more paternal than pathological, nothing like the other bad guys," to "[t]wo accomplished men [who] assisted in this preening self-portrait: Bill Bulger, who could never fully face what a menace his brother was, and one of Bill's protégés, FBI agent John Connolly".
In The State of Martial Rule: The Origins of Pakistan's Political Economy of Defense, Ayesha Jalal notes that the Pakistani government has faced a menacing set of challenges on the domestic, regional and international fronts that have tipped the balance in favor of the military and civil bureaucracies which were not elected democratically.
How does a leader make decisions — especially when faced with a menace like Voldemort?
The popular image of the butcher is a big man with a florid face and a menacing jolliness — what Erika calls "the fat dude in a bloody apron".
I also faced a new menace: the liver flush drink.
And this part of England, along with countless others, now faces a new menace, focused on local public transport's last line of defence: the bus.
"I think we are facing a new menace, a new Afghanistan, and that is Chechnya," the French expert said, adding that this would require more Western cooperation with Moscow.
Instead of its usual story featuring smiling stars arriving at the airport, the local daily newspaper Nice-Matin ran the words "High Security" on its front page followed by a two-page spread headlined "The 69th edition faces a terrorist menace".
But rubber production has been facing a serious menace of tapping panel dryness (TPD).
