Whether that conclusion requires overturning the whole statute is a harder call that depends largely on how the Court of Appeals reads the "severability" clause the Legislature included in the law in an attempt to prevent the possible unconstitutionality of one provision from overturning the entire death penalty statute.
In a private letter last month to the Republican chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Mr. Tenet said that what was at stake for intelligence agencies included "our willingness to make hard calls on difficult subjects that affect national-security decision making".
When it's clear that not everything will get done, you need to make the hard calls on what will not get done.
Yvette Cooper, the shadow equalities minister, who has warned that the government's cuts will hit women hardest, called on Willetts to withdraw his comments.
On Tuesday, the country's most prominent opposition group, the Syrian National Council, urged the Arab League to take a harder stance, calling on it to suspend Syria's membership and impose economic sanctions.
Groupon "made the hard call to allow the team to focus on what really matters".
It's a lot harder to call on China to resolve its maritime disputes under the Law of the Sea Convention when the United States Senate has refused to ratify it - despite the repeated insistence of our top military leaders that the treaty advances our national security.
"When you get out there and the moment gets tough, it's hard to call on what you want to do when you haven't done it recently," Young said.
"I believe voters elect their leaders based on their experience and judgment — their ability to make hard calls, for instance, on matters of war and peace," he wrote.
It's hard to call on them, but you've got to do what you've gotta do.
