Mr. Kerik has asked First Deputy Commissioner Joseph P. Dunne to study the supervisory issue to determine whether it is sufficient, officials said.
The Army is already is slated to drop to a force of 520,000 from 570,000, but Mr. Panetta views even that reduction as too expensive and unnecessary and has endorsed an Army of 490,000 troops as sufficient, officials said.
Federal prosecutors had considered criminal charges against the officers but decided last June that they did not have sufficient evidence, police officials said.
The 136,000 American troops in Iraq and $120 billion cost of the war are just a starting point, and neither was deemed sufficient by United States officials for securing the peace and rebuilding the country.
Upon the system being classified as a tropical depression, a high risk of landfall near Port Arthur, Texas was noted, giving federal officials sufficient lead time to warn local residents about a possible approaching hurricane.
Instead, the court said that the F.C.C. had failed to allow sufficient time for official notice and public comment on the new rules, as required by law.
But the president did not feel the briefings on potential attacks were sufficient, one intelligence official told me, and instead asked for a broader analysis on Al Qaeda, its aspirations and its history.
In any case, beyond the sufficient personnel that police officials have vowed to make available, Governor Owens promised added support if necessary.
The City Council asked Ms. Granholm to invoke a seldom-used law that gives her the power to oust city officials with sufficient cause.
Often the lack of sufficient resources to pay officials in resource-scarce societies has led to corruption and, at the very least, shirking on the job so that officials can tend to other, more remunerative ventures.
Only by adhering to the highest standards of professional conduct may court officials win sufficient legitimacy over time to persuade the major powers presently outside the current ICC system - including China, India, Russia and the US - to join.
