Sentence examples for likelihood of attack from inspiring English sources
"In many respects, we currently face a greater likelihood of attack than we have seen in years," the NYPD police commissioner said.
Russia and the U.S. both clearly want the treaty, hostory has shown that more arms would neither reduce nor increase the likelihood of attack.
New York faces "a greater likelihood of attack than we have seen in years", police commissioner Bill Bratton said at a hearing of the House committee on homeland security at the 9/11 Museum on Tuesday.
It is very difficult to build and maintain a system which protects us effectively against every possible likelihood of attack, but we will not rest until we have controls that are as watertight as possible.
This finding coupled with the lack of association with attack frequency or duration suggests that lower inhibitory control exacerbates the adverse effect of pain catastrophizing after the initiation of an attack, but does not necessarily increase likelihood of attack occurrence or impact pain duration.
Because of potential decreased tree vigour and increased likelihood of attack by insects or diseases, logging injury to the remaining trees may lead to serious economic losses in terms of timber quality at the final harvest (Kiser 2011), wood losses of damaged trees and tree growth reduction (Ohman 1970; Vasiliauskas 2001).
The task force will also determine whether people are doing anything to increase the likelihood of attacks.
(For the same reason, overfishing is often blamed for increasing the likelihood of attacks on humans around the world).
"I think there is a relatively high likelihood of attacks taking place, but these attacks may not target the Games venues themselves," he said.
He added that the incident might well increase the likelihood of attacks on U.S. troops by Afghan soldiers or the police.
More widely, Australia a staunch ally of the US in the war against Isis, has conducted numerous arrests since Australia raised its national terror threat level to "high" for the first time last September, citing the likelihood of attacks by Australians radicalised in Iraq or Syria.
