A threat of massive retaliation is hard to make credible, and is inflexible in response to foreign policy issues.
Here is the serious heart of the film, which the drama makes credible and strong.
Sometimes a stakeholder may want to make credible an 'involuntary' threat or promise, to use this to move the situation in the desired direction.
The bond between these two is never made entirely credible.
No matter how incredible a story seems, it can be made credible.
In such an artfully claustrophobic book, Yoel's relations with people outside his family need especially to be made credible.
Announcements can be made credible in various ways.
Master Gurloes would have taken far too much pleasure in pointing out that at least a month must pass before swimming can be made credible.
Now we have to take steps to make credible the good intentions expressed at this conference.
Even he has problems in making credible the weary old questions and reflections that stage and film investigators are so prone to.