It is also a sorry fact of which Arabs are only too aware that politics in Washington limits the ability of even the best-intentioned president to take a decisive stand on issues involving Israel.
Where an individual declares himself to be a resident for tax purposes, thus subjecting himself to applicable state income taxes, is usually decisive on this issue". Sometime in 2009, probably late in the year, Romney filed his 2008 tax return, identifying the address where he lived at the time of filing.
The next couple of weeks will be decisive on this issue.
It's time for the President to be decisive on another issue that not only has support among his base but also among an increasingly vocal minority of conservative and libertarian Republicans.
"The administrator has been effective and very decisive on a number of issues [where] he can do things with the stroke of a pen," said Jeffrey Holmstead, a former top EPA official under George W. Bush and now a partner at the law and lobbying firm Bracewell.
Critics say it highlights the remoteness of Brussels, where pay raises are written into law, spending priorities are decided up to seven years in advance and millions are spent on questionable efforts to spread the message of a 27-nation bloc that often seems to have little decisive to say on issues that matter to voters, like immigration.
Thus, the issue of whether the treaty applied to Hong Kong was justiciable, and the Ministry's letter was not decisive on the matter.
This might have been perfectly alright had the Gulf Cooperation Council been prepared to be decisive over the issue of Syria the way it has acted decisively on the issues of Libya and Yemen.
If the Government had been more decisive and acted with greater clarity on issues like recall, I suspect this defection could have been easily avoided".
He said his proposals also allowed for English and Welsh votes on issues affecting both nations, so "decisive votes are going to be cast by the MPs that represent England or represent Wales".
