Soon after the liberation of this prominent political hostage, the Vice President of Colombia Francisco Santos Calderón called Latin America's biggest guerrilla group a " paper tiger " with little control of the nation's territory, adding that " they have really been diminished to the point where we can say they are a minimal threat to Colombian security ", and that " After six years of going after them, reducing their income and promoting reinsertion of most of their members, they look like a paper tiger.

In 2005 the FBI announced that the ELF, is America's greatest domestic terrorist threat, responsible for over 1, 200 " criminal incidents " amounting to tens of millions of dollars in damage to property, with the United States Department of Homeland Security confirming this regarding the ALF and ELF.

In 1970 the project was under a perceived economic threat from America's proposed Space Shuttle-Europe knew it could not build ( and never has ) a similar launcher.

In April 2006, Dayton was rated one of America's " Five Worst Senators " by Time magazine, which also labeled him " The Blunderer " for such " erratic behavior " as his temporary closure of his office in 2004 because of an unspecified terrorist threat, his complaints about " limited power in a chamber where authority derives from seniority ," and his comments in February 2005 that the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota was " worth a hell of a lot more than the whole state of South Dakota ", a remark he later apologized for.

Providing the USSR with technology that could make their subs harder to find and track was perceived as a significant threat to America's security.

Once constructed, NBAF will conduct animal disease research intended to secure America's food supply and protect citizens and animals from the threat of foreign animal disease.

As the CIA's wealth and power increased, its aggressive focus toward the Soviet Union soon began not only heating up the Cold War but also in disrupting relations with America's European allies which saw rising third-world liberationist movements as the ultimate threat to Western Civilization.

Invasive animals such as feral hog, european gypsy moth, and the sirex woodwasp pose a significant threat to America's wildlife as well as to the health of human beings.

The commonly articulated reasons included: a belief that the UN process ( including Hans Blix's inspections ) should be allowed to reach its natural conclusion, an aversion to America's neo-con bellicosity, a belief that the threat posed by Iraq was being exaggerated, a preference for multilateralism, a belief that war might just " serve as a recruiting sergeant for Al-Qaida ", and fear of the " fog of war " i. e. the uncertain and unpredictable consequences of invading another country.

That the US Government considered Venceremos a serious threat is evident in the 202-page 1972 U. S. Congress House Committee on Internal Security publication titled " America's Maoists: the Revolutionary Union, the Venceremos Organization: Report "

Together with Steven Simon, he wrote The Age of Sacred Terror ( Random House, 2002 ), which documents the rise of al Qaeda and religiously motivated terrorism, as well as America's efforts to combat that threat.

Comedy Central's The Colbert Report made a satirical reference to Camp Quest as a threat to America's security and moral identity in the " Threat Down " section of the show:

Congressman Montgomery saw that educational shortfall as a direct threat to America's military readiness and national security.

The platform does allow for control over the entry of people who pose a credible threat to security, health, or property.

An innocent party wishing to set aside a contract for duress to the person need to prove only that the threat was made and that it was a reason for entry into the contract ; the onus of proof then shifts to the other party to prove that the threat had no effect in causing the party to enter into the contract.

On June 9, 2009, Rae was denied entry by Sri Lankan Immigration officials at the Bandaranaike International Airport, Colombo, Sri Lanka on grounds that he was " a threat to national security and sympathetic to the Tamil Tigers rebel group ".

Joe S. Bain defined as a barrier to entry anything that allows incumbent firms to earn supernormal profits without threat of entry.

Dynamic entry tactics must be rapid and aggressive, ideally a continuous flow using overwhelming force that does not stop until the threat is eliminated.

According to customs officials, Malcom threatened to use force to prevent them from opening the door ; according to Malcom and his supporters, his threat specified resisting any unlawful forced entry.

On 10 June 1940, the entry of Italy into the war introduced a new threat to the oil supply routes from the Persian Gulf, which passed through the Red Sea to the Mediterranean.

The problem with limit pricing as strategic behavior is that once the entrant has entered the market, the quantity used as a threat to deter entry is no longer the incumbent firm's best response.

This means that for limit pricing to be an effective deterrent to entry, the threat must in some way be made credible.

When only one or a few firms exist in the market, and there is no credible threat of the entry of competing firms, prices rise above the competitive level, to either a monopolistic or oligopolistic equilibrium price.

In 1942, the division left the Middle East and returned to Australia to meet the threat of Japan's entry into the war.

An additional potential threat is the entry of contaminants from traffic accidents and roadside businesses.

The British had blockaded the Dov Hos after it had arrived in La Spezia, but the passengers responded with a hunger strike and a threat to blow up the ship, compelling the British to give them entry permits.

In early 1942, in response to the growing threat posed by Japan's entry into the war following the attacks on Pearl Harbor and Malaya, the 2 / 9th Battalion, along with the rest of the 7th Division, was brought back to Australia.

With accusations of a sectarian selection process and with the threat of court action looming both clubs finally gained entry into the Irish League 2nd Division for the season 2002-2003.

A statement from the base stated the airman “ used deadly force in response to a threat at an entry control checkpoint ".

Behrens then placed Brooks in a triple threat match with fellow female wrestlers Desire and Trinity, with the winner gaining entry into the gauntlet match.

This secured some 195 jobs out of 350 that were under threat following Golden Wonder's entry into administration on 9 January 2006.

Furthermore, five threats that a resource or capability could mitigate are the threat of buyers, threat of suppliers, threat of entry, threat of rivalry, and threat of substitutes.

Although we continue to pay our conversational devotions to `` free private enterprise '', `` individual initiative '', `` the democratic way '', `` government of the people '', `` competition of the marketplace '', etc., we live rather comfortably in a society in which economic competition is diminishing in large areas, bureaucracy is corroding representative government, technology is weakening the citizen's confidence in his own power to make decisions, and the threat of war is driving him economically and physically into the ground ''.

It cannot become the source of a real Atlantic community if it remains organized to deal only with the military threat which first brought it into being ''.

The September 11 attacks presented an unprecedented threat because it involved suicide hijackers who could fly an aircraft and use it to delibrately crash the airplane into buildings for the sole purpose to cause massive casualties with no warning, no demands or negotiations, and no regard for human life.

Eventually, during the height of the Cold War, the threat would have actually expanded into regimental-size raids of Tu-16 Badger and Tu-22M Backfire bombers equipped with low-flying, long-range, high-speed, nuclear-armed cruise missiles and considerable Electronic Counter Measures ( ECM ) of various types.

" Signal guns were fired to bring in the foraging parties and picquets as the French and Bavarian troops tried to draw into battle-order to face the unexpected threat.

Taviers was of particular importance to the Franco-Bavarian position: it protected the otherwise unsupported flank of General de Guiscard ’ s cavalry on the open plain, while at the same time, it allowed the French infantry to pose a threat to the flanks of the Dutch and Danish squadrons as they came forward into position.

Most occurrences in ancient literature revolve around the basis of the threat of Cerberus being overcome to allow a living being access to the underworld ; in the Aeneid Cerberus was lulled to sleep after being tricked into eating drugged honeycakes and Orpheus put the creature to sleep with his music.

Taking into account possible loads onto structure increase in future ( and even threat of progressive failure-terroristic attacks, explosions etc.

As the threat of Cold War eased, a number of such civil defense organisations have been disbanded or mothballed ( as in the case of the Royal Observer Corps in the United Kingdom and the United States civil defense ), while others have changed their focuses into providing rescue services after natural disasters ( as for the State Emergency Service in Australia ).

While their numbers did not pose a serious threat to the government, they scared the Rump into action and a Treasons Act was passed against them in 1649.

Steamboat companies saw nationwide railroads as a threat to their business and on May 6, 1856, just weeks after the bridge was completed, a steamboat captain deliberately crashed the Effie Afton into the bridge.

Herodotus records that when heralds of the Persian king Darius the Great demanded " earth and water " ( i. e., symbols of submission ) of various Greek cities, the Athenians threw them into a pit and the Spartans threw them down a well for the purpose of suggesting they would find both earth and water at the bottom, these often being mentioned by the messenger as a threat of siege.

Some realistic references to ARPA in fiction are in Tom Swift and the Visitor from Planet X ( DARPA consults on a technical threat ), in episodes of television program The West Wing ( the ARPA-DARPA distinction ), the television program Numb3rs ( DARPA research into creating the first self-aware computer ), and in the motion picture Executive Decision ( use of a one-of-a-kind experimental prototype in an emergency ).

Damascus was a major trading centre which abounded in wealth and was under normal circumstances a potential threat, but the rulers of Jerusalem had recently entered into a truce with the city, which they then forswore.

Elizabeth was persuaded to send a force into Scotland to aid the Protestant rebels, and though the campaign was inept, the resulting Treaty of Edinburgh of July 1560 removed the French threat in the north.

The Empire has begun to recognise the threat the Exiles pose and begin sending their army down into Exile in huge numbers.

While Mike is usually portrayed as simply dumb ( for example, in A Man of His Convictions in series 2 he writes a letter to media commentator Stuart Littlemore full of basic spelling and grammatical errors ) he occasionally surprises his colleagues with his sneakiness: in Give ' em Enough Rope ( series 2 ) he traps the network owner into admitting to contravening the Broadcasting Act in a live interview, after first getting the owner to publicly commit to allowing him to ask difficult questions without threat to his job.

He may even have been blackmailed, with a threat to charge him with sodomy, into confession.

With no further threat by the Serbs and the subsequent Byzantine civil wars, the Ottomans captured Constantinople in 1453 and advanced southwards into Greece, capturing Athens in 1458.

Only the Bene Gesserit perceive the Golden Path and are therefore faced with a choice: keep to their traditional role of hidden manipulators who quietly ease tensions and guide human progress while struggling for their own survival, or embrace the Golden Path and push humanity onward into a new future where humans are free from the threat of extinction.

It seems that, having apparently dealt with the threat of a Gaulo-Carthaginian invasion ( and perhaps they knew that the original Carthaginian commander had been killed ), the Romans lulled themselves into a false sense of security.

Indonesia claimed all territories of the former Dutch East Indies, and previously viewed British plans to group the Straits Settlements, the Federated Malay States, the Unfederated Malay States, Sarawak and British North Borneo into a new independent federation of Malaysia as a threat to its objective to create a united state called Greater Indonesia.

By the time he arrived, the Black Death had killed Alfonso and the threat of invasion had receded, so he turned the trip into a sight-seeing tour, traveling through Valencia and ending up in Granada.

The threat of military intervention by Mexico sent Fremont's expedition southeast, into Nevada, to a watering hole known as Las Vegas.

Murray Bookchin has put it this way " what of the syndicalist ideal of " collectivized " self-managed enterprises that are coordinated by like occupations on a national level and coordinated geographically by " collectives " on a local level ?... Here, the traditional socialist criticism of this syndicalist form of economic management is not without its point: the corporate or private capitalist, " worker-controlled " or not "” ironically, a technique in the repertoire of industrial management that is coming very much into vogue today as " workplace democracy " and " employee ownership " and constitutes no threat whatever to private property and capitalism ... In any case, " economic democracy " has not simply meant " workplace democracy " and " employee ownership.