New France was economically weak, dependent on France for trade and defense, and strategically vulnerable with but two seaward outlets to its continental empire, New Orleans and Quebec.
Many, including myself, warned even before the war began that it was unnecessary, that it would take our energy and attention away from the larger war against terrorism, and that invading and occupying Iraq would leave us strategically vulnerable in the most violent and turbulent corner of the world.
Speaking at Daher, Mr. Sarkozy said the fund stood ready to take stakes in large and strategically important companies vulnerable to takeovers because of falling stock prices.
It's therefore right that the government should give priority to first-time students, but we will continue to support two-thirds of ELQ students who are studying strategically important and vulnerable subjects.
Although languages have been designated "strategically important and vulnerable subjects" by the Higher Education Funding Council for England since 2005, Hefce is so concerned about the problems that it has announced an extra £3.1m funding for language degree programmes.
In the top 30 universities, private school pupils fill more than a quarter of places in science, maths, technology and modern language courses, the so-called strategically important and vulnerable subjects, found Professor William Richardson, who led the study.
There will also be funding to protect some "strategically important and vulnerable" subjects within the arts and humanities - and Mr Willetts said that these would be decided by the autumn.
As mucins are strategically positioned between the vulnerable mucosa and the bacterial contents of the intestinal lumen [46], the changes in mucin concentrations and the consequent changes in mucin binding to bacteria are likely to affect both host-commensal and host-pathogen interactions.
They work in partnership with others and their embedded position at community levels means they are strategically placed to enhance vulnerable and disadvantaged populations in remote areas to access TB diagnosis and treatment CHWs have shown potential to improve coverage to effective and sustainable health services [ 25] and respond to chronic human resource constraints [ 26, 27].
This developing threat from state actors led Sami Saydjari, CEO of Cyber Defense LLC, to testify (pdf) to the US House Committee of Homeland Security in 2007, saying: "The US is vulnerable to a strategically crippling cyber attack from nation-state-class adversaries".
The concentration of military resources on this geographically isolated town has resulted in the diversion of Kurdish and allied military capability away from other strategically important sectors, leaving them vulnerable to attack from the Islamic State.
