The United States Department of Defense reported that in Taiwan, "proponents of strikes against the mainland apparently hope that merely presenting credible threats to China's urban population or high-value targets, such as the Three Gorges Dam, will deter Chinese military coercion".
And banks don't have to sell their mortgages to benefit; merely having a credible market price for those they hold could restore the confidence of investors.
Stories dismissed but now credible.
"It is simply not credible".
The missiles have a mixed record in testing, hitting dummy targets just 50 percent of the time, but officials said Friday's announcement was intended not merely to present a credible deterrence to the North's limited intercontinental ballistic missile arsenal.
The increase in interceptors was intended not merely to present a credible deterrent to North Korea's limited intercontinental ballistic missile arsenal, but also to show South Korea and Japan that the United States was willing to commit resources to deterring the North.
A group of prominent international lawyers argue that if the recent indictment of Slobodan Milosevic is to be credible, not merely victor's justice, then the evidence against all prima facie war criminals should be heard.
But some aides protested vigorously that her role -- under the independent counsel law -- was to determine not the weight of evidence but merely whether it was credible and specific information that indicated an official may have committed a crime.
Trump took no responsibility for the dissemination of the graphic, telling Bill O'Reilly on his show that it was merely a retweet from "very credible" sources, and that he was too busy to check every statistic.
