"But the president may have decided it would be even more awkward to announce the rather flaccid reforms we've been led to expect after two of the government's own expert panels have concluded a more serious overhaul is needed".
The inquest concluded that a serious system failure had given rise to an unlawful regime at the jail.
He mocked the culture of the rich-guy hunting expedition ("Slowly, I turned off the A/C") and concluded on a serious note.
After summing up the risks of each course, though, I concluded that a serious look at the alternatives should redouble our determination to find a third way: a negotiated deal.
This, Fed officials concluded, was a serious communications problem: markets had wrongly thought less QE also meant earlier tightening, and officials have been trying ever since to clarify that it does not.
If that is to mean something, when campaigning resumes, the debate ought to be concluded in a serious way that reflects the gravity of the question confronting the United Kingdom.
And he had not done or said anything that would allow anyone to conclude he was a serious candidate.
But even so, the concluding episode was a serious downer with an irredeemably bleak message: don't trust anyone, especially those closest to you.
The tribe concluded there was a serious problem when its records showed that from 1988 to 1992, at least 10 of 19 pregnancies had ended in miscarriage or stillbirth.
Australia's most senior Catholic, Cardinal George Pell, had enough evidence to conclude that serious action was needed against a paedophile priest who worked under him, counsel assisting the royal commission have said.
