He acknowledged that the government is wary of ordering air strikes because it lost a Commons vote last summer on military action against Syria.
That means the 7-day shutdown of much of Europe's air traffic ordered by civil aviation authorities, which affected 10 million passengers and cost between €1.5 billion and €2.5 billion, was likely worth it.
After just two weeks on the air, Fox ordered more episodes of the show — and not just the conventional total of nine.
Aiming to renovate its ageing air fleet after years of sanctions, Iran Air has ordered 118 commercial passenger planes including 12 Airbus A380s, the world's largest jet airliner.
At the time of writing, the current top 10 is an eclectic mix featuring news of the first air strikes ordered by the new US president Barack Obama; creationist hate-mail; a rogues gallery of the men behind the economic meltdown; and a guide to taking a nap.
With a genial air of command, he ordered eggs Benedict for the table, declined my request to turn on a tape recorder, ("Just keep my name out of it," he instructed later) and settled into an hour of polished spin.
He checked the radiator, assessed the level of humidity in the air and ordered an additional table brought into the room, on which he laid out a red velvet cloth and opened the case, handing the instrument to Ms. Carter.
In fact, the duo's gently emotionally-tugging pop has the unmistakably epic, melancholy air of New Order or the Beloved.
That air of metaphysical order crystallizes in Denis's brilliant, near-quarter-hour culminating scene of Isabelle's visit to a clairvoyant, played with a gruffly arrogant self-assurance by the ferocious Gérard Depardieu, who tells Isabelle's future (and offers her a vision that involves the movie's actual French title, "Un Beau Soleil Intérieur" — A Beautiful Inner Sun).
Due to the high surface-to-volume ratio, the films show fast heat exchange in air of the order of 1.5 s.
