"This has left us ill prepared to engage early, proactively, and decisively to prevent threats from evolving into large scale civilian atrocities".
Too many children suffered because social workers spent too much time "pussyfooting" around dysfunctional families and failing to act decisively to prevent abuse or neglect, he said.
Incoming Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev). criticized the delay, saying that Bush should act decisively to prevent Iraq from sliding deeper into chaos.
In sharp contrast to Pai, past Republican chairmen have recognized the threat broadband providers can pose to the Internet's unparalleled openness and acted decisively to prevent interference by these gatekeepers.
CAIRO — The Egyptian military warned Sunday that it was prepared to act decisively to prevent chaos as fears rose that mass protests against President Mohamed Morsi planned for next week could ignite fresh violence between his Islamist supporters and the opposition.
But it is also possible that the central bank, with its relentless focus on inflation, could decide that it needs to act decisively to prevent shortages of energy or Japanese-made components from driving up prices.
China is putting pressure on the Bush administration to intervene more decisively to prevent Taiwan from holding a referendum on relations with the mainland, calling the planned vote a "dangerous provocation" that could lead to a confrontation.
After a prologue in which Harry acts decisively to prevent an apparent threat to the visiting president of the United States, only to find he has shot a Norwegian secret service agent, the novel shifts back to 1942.
The army warned that it would act decisively "to prevent Lebanon being transformed again into a place for a settling of regional scores, and to prevent the assassination of the martyr Wissam Hassan being used to assassinate a whole country".Many Lebanese privately agree with the March 14th leaders, who have accused Syria directly, and Hizbullah indirectly, of responsibility for the Beirut bombing.
On Wednesday, after an emergency two-day meeting in the Vatican intended to show the world that the church is moving decisively to prevent sexual abuse by clergymen, Cardinal Bevilacqua and other top church leaders said they still did not agree on whether to impose such unconditional punishment on all priests who have molested minors.
Left to run the government without money, Washington acted decisively to prevent a government shutdown.
