They demanded a public renunciation of discrimination in sport, and when it failed to materialise by the appointed deadline, promptly delivered on their ultimatum.
It is a poignant note that the day appointed as the deadline for declaring ISIS' crimes against humanity to be genocide falls on March 17th.
It's an assignment for which he has secured a two-and-a half-year deadline – Gordon Brown appointed longtime aide Ed Miliband to his first ministerial job in the cabinet office when he became prime minister in the summer of 2007, and gave him the task of writing the manifesto at the same time.
The two sides in the long-running case have so far failed to settle on their own, so the new trial judge, Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, has appointed a mediator and set a deadline of November 2nd to reach an agreement.
The analysis says "a minority" of the 16 proposed schools are likely to be in a position to appoint a headteacher by the deadline of December 2010, while a number of the groups are unlikely to have a school site "whether temporary or permanent" by mid-August mid-August next year
So far, Buhari seems to have focused on fighting Boko Haram, giving newly appointed security chiefs a December deadline to end the insurgency; cleaning up the corrupt oil and gas sector by appointing a new head of the state oil company NNPC; and rebuilding Nigeria's image with strategic diplomatic visits.
A day before his legal deadline for appointing a new government, the Palestinian prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas, withdrew to his office today, saying nothing publicly and rebuffing almost all the diplomats and Palestinian mediators seeking to break his stalemate with Yasir Arafat.
He said, though, that he was certain the White House would intervene to prevent a walkout for 60 days after the deadline by appointing a so-called presidential emergency board.
The Election Assistance Commission, which is charged with administering the act, was appointed nearly a year after the legal deadline.
They also say they did not set a deadline on appointing the president to avoid "micromanaging" the process.
