With 182 victories and 1,423 strikeouts over 13 seasons, the hard-throwing Yankees pitcher Allie Reynolds lacked the shoo-in credentials of 300 wins or 3,000 strikeouts to usher a pitcher into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
The stolen data — log-in credentials of E.A.C. staff members — were discovered, by chance, by employees of the cybersecurity firm Recorded Future, whose computers one night happened upon an informal auction of the stolen passwords.
Despite this longtime acceptance of Executive authority many have questioned the Commander-in-Chief credentials of those who sought the Presidency.
Although the inside jokes are cute (speculating about her new shrink, Sunny decides that "she probably had a boyfriend... probably some Harvard geek"), their therapy sessions reveal an infantile personality that doesn't exactly inspire client (or reader) confidence in the credentials of this operative.
So the debate about torture largely engendered by the "war on terror" has revived interest in the credentials of moral absolutism, although much about the nature and types of absolutism remain in need of clarification.
Azzam said he had faith in the green credentials of western oil companies, the oil-spill in the Gulf of Mexico notwithstanding.
"The problem is that many conservatives have lost trust in the conservative credentials of the Republican Party," said James Bopp Jr., a committee member from Indiana who is the chief sponsor of the resolution.
In December, an institute of South Korea's foreign ministry said the North might attempt a third nuclear test in 2011 to strengthen the credentials of young leader-in-waiting Kim Jong-un.
In August the press credentials of seven journalists and editors from four newspapers were revoked, and in October two more editors were dismissed.
The ad shows that the president is less interested than anyone in advertising the moderate credentials of his rival.
In short, the democratic credentials of Scottish civic life have indeed been put to the test by the referendum – but not just by one side.
