Key elements of earlier drafts dropped during yesterday's negotiations: An attempt to replace Kyoto "Affirming our firm resolve to adopt one or more legal instruments …" This preamble, killed off during the day, was the biggest obstacle for negotiators.
Like Scarlett O'Hara, filled with life-affirming resolve at the end of the Civil War, he rose up from the poverty of middle-class standards, stared at the ratings numbers twinkling in the heavens, shouted, "As God is my witness, I'll never be tasteful again!," and set fire to his parents' beige public-television tote bag.
"We affirmed our collective resolve to deter malicious cyber activity, including improving domestic resilience, and coordinating technical attribution and operational response policies to mitigate significant cyber incidents". The ministers also said the Five Eyes would coordinate their response should a "severe foreign interference incident" target them.
"At a time when bipartisanship is a rare commodity, this bill affirms the resolve across party and ideological lines to find cures for devastating illnesses and strengthen investment in American research and innovation," said Mary Sue Coleman, president of the Association of American Universities in Washington, D.C., in a statement.
During a visit by Japan's foreign minister, Japan and China have affirmed their friendship, resolved to remain peaceful partners and scheduled a visit to Japan in October by Prime Minister, Zhu Rongji.
In affirming that decision, the majority opinion by Justice John Paul Stevens resolved a question that had surprisingly gone unanswered for all the myriad times that governments have used their power under the Fifth Amendment to take private property for public use.
Shenouda and Paul began discussions that helped to resolve many of the ancient disputes and signed a joint statement affirming many tenets of Christology.
We think it clear that this peculiar case, involving a merits issue dispositively resolved in a companion case, was not meant to overrule, sub silentio, two centuries of jurisprudence affirming the necessity of determining jurisdiction before proceeding to the merits.
Hall explains, "You'd be honest about it while affirming the fact that there were aspects that were in sync, and targeting the part that needs to be resolved by clarifying".
For Catholics and other Christians, the tension between affirming the holiness of the church as Christ's body on earth and confessing the sinfulness of individual Christians may never be fully resolved.
