Within this context we must not forget that successful natural resource management is much more than developing good science; it requires working with landowners, meeting deadlines, securing funding, supervising staff, and cooperating with politicians.
Is a five-year deadline to secure pupillage really fair?
If he is released on bail, the deadline to secure an indictment would be extended.
The 50-year-old Morumbi stadium in Sao Paulo is insufficient, according to FIFA, and plans to renovate the facility were scuttled when organizers missed a May deadline to secure $135 million in financing.
With Greece facing an end-of-month deadline to secure a deal, a government spokesman, Gabriel Sakellaridis, said negotiators were in Brussels to explore the "scope for convergence" with creditors and indicated there was room for negotiation.
Many, though, have viewed as unrealistic the deadline to secure and stabilise the north-east by polling day, to allow those displaced by the violence to return to vote.
The new owner of SeeSaw has run into difficulty hitting a deadline to secure multimillion-pound funding and has lost a key content deal with Channel 4, meaning shows such as The Inbetweeners and Skins are no longer available on the online TV service.
Oxfam's Lucy Brinicombe is blogging for the Guardian from Cancún, and here's a bit of her first post: There's an air of uncertainty here, of controlled hope mixed with a hefty dose of pragmatism compared with the heady days before last year's UN climate talks in Copenhagen, where a deadline to secure a fair, safe and legally binding climate deal came – and went.
"I will wake up tomorrow morning and still ask myself just how we have beaten the deadline to secure this player to be a Miller," added Evans.
The Italian club, who set a 1800 GMT deadline to secure a deal, have instead signed Maxi Lopez from Catania on loan.
