In other words: we do not, as yet, have an adequate response mechanism, an ability to eliminate the threat of terrorism the way decisive steps undertaken by the British SAS, the German GSG-9 and other units succeeded in reducing the number of cases involving hijacked aircraft to almost nil.
"The world expects from us to undertake decisive and uncompromising actions... to stop this source of funding for the extremists".
"With deeply intertwined fiscal and financial problems, failure to undertake decisive action could rapidly spread the tensions to the core of the euro area and result in large global spillovers … a disorderly outcome cannot be excluded".
"With deeply intertwined fiscal and financial problems, failure to undertake decisive action could rapidly spread the tensions to the core of the euro areas and result in large global spillovers," the I.M.F. said.
"With deeply intertwined fiscal and financial problems, failure to undertake decisive action could rapidly spread the tensions to the core of the euro areas and result in large global spillovers," the fund said.
They undertake decisive action!
In fact, Aquino is credited more for resisting negative things associated with public officials, i.e. corruption, megalomania, and arm-twisting shenanigans, than undertaking the decisive policies promised since his election in 2010.
Revolutionaries within Tripoli captured strategic installations and we, coming from outside, undertook the decisive operations to win the battle.
He can win only if his political adversaries do not undertake the decisive countermeasures at their disposal.
The government, critics argue, could have undertaken more decisive measures ahead of Haiyan's landfall, knowing how powerful, unpredictable, and disastrous it could get.
But McBride added that Mr Brown was "convinced that decisive action" had to be undertaken immediately and said he later thought his actions were comparable to President John F Kennedy and his advisers during the Cuban Missile Crisis in the Cold War.
