May announced a raft of sanctions against Russia on Wednesday, including expelling diplomats, severing high-level contacts, and freezing assets, after Moscow failed to meet a midnight deadline to explain how the nerve agent, Novichok, was used in the attempt to kill former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the town of Salisbury on March 4. The two are still fighting for their lives.
(This is a lot easier, especially on deadline, than trying to explain ambiguities or to interest people in articles reporting that the governor is pretty much sticking to his plans).
Representative Brad Sherman, Democrat of California, said the administration was treating lawmakers as "irrelevant" by failing to acknowledge that the deadline had passed or to explain itself.
The remarks by Mr. Brown, a Democrat, came after a Monday deadline for prison officials to explain the steps they would take to lower the inmate population to 137.5 percent of capacity.
The Florida secretary of state announced tonight that she would comply with a state judge's order to consider results of further recounts in the disputed presidential election, but she gave the two Democratic counties that are moving ahead with, or considering, a time-consuming hand recount a deadline of 2 p.m. Wednesday to explain their reasons in writing.
Yeah I understand the deadlines and such but having to explain every minute of your time out of the office, even for lunch is undermining.
The rest of baseball's news isn't quite so dour or ridiculous, although quite a few teams are trying to explain away how their deadline deal acquisitions have gone so poorly, Steve Henson writes on Yahoo.com.
I tried to explain that because my deadline for filing the column had fallen at the end of the first day of Le Web, I hadn't had a chance to say how much better day two had been, both in terms of temperature and in the quality of panels and speakers.
The decision came after Chancellor Joel I. Klein met with the Regents to explain why he could not meet a September deadline for employing only certified teachers.
So when I had problems meeting my essay deadlines, or making it to lectures, I didn't know how to explain the problem.
Ms. Lee declined to explain the rule review process or answer questions about the 90-day deadline.
