We can also take some reassurance from a good general counter-terrorism record stretching back nearly 60 years.
But some have harboured concerns that the UN's neutrality has been gradually eroded by growing pressure from the US and Britain for Unama, the political wing of the UN in Afghanistan, to be subsumed into the general counter-insurgency effort.
That the Super Bowl came and went without incident on Sunday in New Orleans was a confidence-builder for security officials here, who are hewing to the same general counter-terrorism plan of having all law enforcement agencies work together under a central command.
But with the resurgence of violence across such a wide swath of territory – last month a bomb attack on the Grand Mosque in the Nigerian city of Kano, 5,000 miles from Peshawar, killed 120 people – the reassuring idea that there is one specific battleground where the more general counter-terrorist campaign might be won is looking far fetched.
Lisa Gochman, a deputy state attorney general, countered that Mr. Manzie willingly pleaded guilty in exchange for reduced charges.
The commission, which operates independently of the inspector general, countered in a statement that it "has a variety of other regulations that effectively encompass reporting all defects".
Jeri Warhaftig, New Jersey's deputy attorney general, countered that the trial was simply about a "bad doctor"; it was not a referendum on the morality of abortion.
But the agency's own inspector general countered that the hard drive had been in the hands of multiple companies before it was eventually disposed, potentially exposing its data to theft and government standards violations.
Even so, the 70s deployed the peace sign at a moment when it transitioned from its original nuclear disarmament use and later anti-war symbolism to a more general counter-culture patch.
SMT appeared to have a general counter-irritant effect on A-delta fiber mediated pain perception (first pain response).
Results of these analyses (Fig. 8D) revealed that this effect appears to be specific for siSMPD2_3 indicating an off-target effect of this particular siRNA rather than a general counter-regulation of SMPD1 and -3 in response to knockdown of SMPD2.
