"You can't know for sure how far the Libyan program would have progressed in the last eight years," said Mr. Joseph, who left the administration of President George W. Bush a few years after the Libya events, partly because he believed it had gone soft on nuclear rogue states.
After my presentation, Dr. Watanabe, a soft-spoken nuclear physicist, painted a grim picture of the potential impact of a plant only 6 km from the coastal town of 20,000 and its threat to local fishing.
The Clinton administration, they said, is soft on Chinese nuclear espionage.
No government branch or candidate in the June 17 elections wants to appear soft on the nuclear issue.
To evaluate the safety and 1-year outcome of the intraocular lens (IOL) scaffold technique in eyes with soft to moderate nuclear remnants after intraoperative posterior capsule rupture (PCR).
In contrast to their soft tissue counterpart, nuclear palisading, typical Verocay bodies, vascular hyalinization and xanthoma cells are not seen [ 23, 24].
suffers from soft incongruence between our nuclear and plastid trees.
Our results demonstrate that A. hemipilioides is undoubtedly nested within Hemipilia s.l., though our understanding of its precise relationships with Hemipiliopsis purpureopunctata and P. brevicalcarata is weakened by a soft incongruence between our nuclear and plastid trees.
North Korea's Kim Jong-il has likewise repeatedly and quite profitably exploited China's fears of large-scale outflows of North Koreans to extract, among other things, large quantities of food aid and technical, monetary and law enforcement assistance, and, last but far from least, a relatively soft stance on North Korea's nuclear program.
Military power is essential, he says, but many tasks, including nation-building and efforts against nuclear proliferation, need softer techniques too.
Even if it doesn't take guts to put on a drama that envisions a woman as President, it does take some to bring up as a central issue a human-rights case that has to do with women, and is a "softer" issue than, say, developing nuclear weapons.
