"I said, 'If you don't send them back on 28 August, I will consider this wrongful retention under article 3 of the Hague convention.'" Alexander and Constantin were made wards of court, and an order was made for them to return to the UK; but the local German court successfully argued that the children were victims of racism in Britain, and that the "children have decisively opposed such return".
Back in November, at the United Nations, he talked of the UN's founding mission: to oppose aggression and the wicked "early, decisively, and collectively".
The public has turned decisively against the war: six voters in ten think it a mistake and seven in ten oppose sending more troops.
President Obama's enthusiastic support for the measures — he actually proposed some of them himself, in broad terms — gave House Democrats little cover to oppose the omnibus bill last week, even though their support was tepid at best, and even less cover for Senate Democrats this week, now that the House has voted so decisively.
President Obama must bring a long-term, science-oriented perspective into government, and he must quickly and decisively reverse the more recent, opposing trends.
What is less open to question is just how better the Miami Heat played Thursday night with Bosh in the starting lineup as opposed to the decisively not-a-starter Udonis Haslem.
Fewer than one in four Clinton or Trump supporters said they expect their candidate to be a great president while more decisively predicting the worst about the opposing candidate: 72% of Trump supporters said Clinton would be terrible, while 83% of Clinton backers said that of Trump.
"He is trying to make himself a fighter against institutionalized corruption, of acting decisively to uphold common-sense justice as opposed to mere legality," said Jean Francois Prudhomme, a political science professor at Colegio de Mexico here.
Thus, Turkey and Iran became opposing stakeholders in Syria once Turkey decisively sided with anti-government forces.
