Before he came up with alternative rationales for the Iraq war, President Bush often said that the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks had changed his view of tolerable risk, and he insisted that the possibility, no matter how slim, that Saddam Hussein would obtain or sell a weapon was unacceptable.
Quantifying the risk of microbial contamination and recontamination along the aseptic-UHT process, using the scientifically based process Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment (QMRA), offers the possibility to improve on the currently tolerable sterility failure rate (i.e. 1 defect per 10,000 units).
And so, with the humor that makes life tolerable, I offer some truths, some memories, some possibilities".
Finally, the concept of acceptable regret is employed to arrive at the strategy which is the most tolerable to the decision maker who always faces possibilities of making wrong decisions.
"It means we are quickly losing the possibility of keeping the climate below what people thought were possibly tolerable thresholds," he said.
When the milestone was passed, Keeling's son Ralph, a geochemist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, glossed the event as follows: "It means we are quickly losing the possibility of keeping the climate below what people thought were possibly tolerable thresholds".
We interviewed him for his views on the pathologies of our political and social life and the possibilities of living a good — or even tolerable — life under current conditions.
In fact, the more you hear the song in "The Long Goodbye," the less the film seems to be about "the case" and the more it seems to be about its own fabrication and the possibility that music may make so much human squalor tolerable.
The possibility of achieving radiosensitization of tumours in patients after tolerable doses of metronidazole is discussed in relation to enhancement ratios determined for in vitro and in vivo systems.
The 2ºC mark is widely considered to be the dividing line between warming which is just about tolerable and that which is dangerous.For the first time, the IPCC gives some credence to the possibility that Earth's climate may not be responding to higher concentrations of greenhouse gases quite as sharply as was once thought.
