Mr. Smith, a career civilian employee, did his duty: He confronted KBR and warned that unless they supplied credible justification, he would levy penalties of 15percentt on future work payments while also, needless to say, blocking any performance bonuses for the company.
After vanquishing Manny Pacquiao in May, the American's supply of credible opponents has gone alarmingly dry.
All it did was supply a credible cast of characters who hate us so much they would thrill to the prospect of actually doing it -- and, most important in rethinking the probabilities, would be happy to die in the effort.
From Jeb Bush to Haley Barbour, Jon Thune to (especially) Mitch Daniels, we've watched the party's leading lights and most experienced national figures repeatedly pass the buck, all of them hoping that somebody else would step forward to supply a credible alternative to Mitt Romney.
Antirealists are under an obligation to 'save the (temporal) phenomena': they need to supply a credible explanation as to why it seems so natural to say we perceive movement and change when, in actual fact, we do no such thing.
The title character, played with total conviction by Oscar Isaac and supplied with credible material by the maven of American music, T-Bone Burnett, is acknowledged to have been inspired, in part -- at least as a jumping-off point -- by the late folkie Dave Van Ronk.
The combination of these market and producer commitments gives us a glimpse of what a full, credible supply chain solution could look like.
Will it be credible?" Supplying his own answer, he said, "There is no alternative but to find a way of making the process viable and credible".
SO keeping the country united will be one of the biggest challenges for President Bush, especially if he can supply no dramatic and credible evidence of success.
Moreover, since free entry into the industry is possible and no input appears to be in scarce supply, there is no credible source of rents to distinguish "inframarginal" firms from "marginal" firms.
