Over the past two years Nawaz Sharif, the prime minister, has been picking off individuals and institutions that he believes pose any threat to his own power.
But the virus which increasingly occupies his time these days, and the one that he believes poses the greatest threat to mankind, is the avian influenza virus, H5N1.
One of his major themes is a war on "western values", including a free press, democracy and the constitutional separation of powers, all of which he believes pose an insidious threat to one-party rule.
Twenty years later, the trim, slow-talking Mr. Norcross, who now lives in Miami during the off-season, keeps his eye on hurricanes from the cushier environs of the Weather Channel, using television cameras, his blog and Facebook to issue technically detailed and often passionate reports about systems he believes pose high risk.
John Mylroie, a geologist at Mississippi State University who has also studied the rocks, added that during the Eemian period long ago, the cliff face was different than at present — jutting farther out into the sea, and with higher cliffs — which he believes poses a problem for the calculations.
French President Francois Hollande launched the surprise operation in its former West African colony on Friday, with hopes of stopping al-Qaida-linked and other Islamist extremists he believes pose a danger to the world.
He generally preferred to work quietly for his causes and constituents, but he waged one notable and sustained public campaign against nuclear power – the Sellafield site in Cumbria, he passionately believed, posed a real danger to his South Down constituents and he was vigorously opposed to a proposed expansion.
2.(S) Israeli officials were keen to outline an "escalation" in CBI programs that they believed pose a danger to the international financial system.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents said the demand for Higgins' services was so great that he hired staff, including a blond woman who they believe posed as an Middle Eastern man.
It didn't matter who they were: they were members of a group who, it was believed, posed an existential threat to the killers' own community.
