Some banks say they might dispatch troops from cities where energy corporate finance activity, and the ability to generate juicy fees, has slowed of late, including London and Dubai.
True, a mad dictator embroiled in an unwinnable war might dispatch his missiles anyway; but then, they might be stopped.
In other situations, the Coast Guard might dispatch boats to escort vessels to shore, or call in the Sea Marshals, a new unit created after Sept. 11, to take positions in the engine room and on the bridge.
She rattled through four mazurkas as if daring them to strike back, and blazed through the serpentine reaches of the third scherzo as a mongoose might dispatch a cobra.
As speculation ran high last week that China might dispatch the Jiaolong, named for a fabled sea dragon, authorities posted a statement on the submersible's long-dormant Sina Weibo microblog account, apologizing for not keeping the account up to date.
A core vanguard of traitorous Greek mercenaries and Persian royal guard was established; as was usual for Persian kings, Darius positioned himself in the centre of this vanguard, in order that he might effectively dispatch commands to any part of his large army.
Administration officials said Mr. Bush was not planning to change those positions, because they were matters of conviction, and some Republican strategists said that if he did change them, he might invite more trouble than he dispatched.
Joanna Jędrzejczyk, the intimidating women's strawweight (a hundred and fifteen pounds) champion, seemed as if she might quickly dispatch Karolina Kowalkiewicz; instead, the two battled for five five-minute rounds, giving each other matching swollen hematomas near their right eyes, before Jędrzejczyk was declared the winner.
Even if not many took advantage of the offer, Colonel Qaddafi might be more reluctant to dispatch his air force if he thought he might lose it.
C.I.A. headquarters dispatched a plane with a surgeon aboard from Johns Hopkins University to treat Abu Zubaydah, so that he might face interrogation.
