He was referring to the legal threat confronting some agency operatives for their involvement in the rendition and alleged torture of suspects in the war on terror.
So says Steven Farris, president of Apache, an independent American oil-exploration firm.That points to the biggest threat confronting the majors: the rundown of reserves.
No matter what the crisis, no matter what the odds, you can be reasonably sure you will dispatch the biggest threat confronting the nation, and within two hours.
However, he maintained, none of the roster moves he has made until now — all of them modest player signings — were influenced by the financial threat confronting the team's owners.
Since those shocking attacks of 9/11, the death of Osama bin Laden, the elimination of terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and the concentrated international pressure on Al Qaeda have reshaped the nature of the threat confronting us.
But foreign adversaries often mount their attacks through computer network hubs inside the United States, and military officials and outside experts say that threat confronts the Pentagon and the administration with difficult questions.
By the time he's done, you accept that we're facing a planetary emergency, you agree that global warming is the greatest threat confronting the human race - and you desperately want to do something about it.
But that is the ever-present threat confronting the "one-company town," that smaller American town or city whose identity and economic future is so intertwined with the large business headquartered there.
That poses a ready audience for a second major threat confronting big carriers: Voice over Wi-Fi, which lets callers use free airwaves to gain wireless access to the Internet.
"It is doubtful this is a serious threat to the program, which is still expected to move quickly for two reasons: (1) the growing advanced mine threat confronting the US Navy, and (2) the fact that the service will retire its already-decrepit minehunters in the early 2020s," Eaglen said.
