"How do you get 10 countries to agree on detailed, word-for-word provisions when there are questions about what's the definition of capital?
But the detailed wording of the de Bois amendment makes clear it is actually a sentencing guideline, which is not binding on the courts.
The Bonn and Durban meetings are widely expected to produce only a few clarifications of countries' emissions targets – already deemed inadequate by campaigners – and some detailed wording of the rules on issues such as forestry and carbon trading.
Cash said the union remained open for talks, but added: "We were just getting into the detailed wording when suddenly the plug was pulled and our legs were kicked from under us.
Speaking on a conference call with analysts, Dimon said he expected Britain's tax to cost "several hundred million dollars" although the precise figure will depend on the detailed wording of legislation that will determine exactly how many of JP Morgan's staff will be affected.
This capacious collection reminds us that her scribbley drawings are deceptively childlike, that they are actually shrewdly detailed word and picture concoctions that reinvent the cartoon form, even as they capture the oddness, discontinuity and plain absurdity of the world around us.
Later that month, after Brown had attended the EU summit in Lisbon, at which the 27 member countries agreed on the detailed wording of the treaty, Cameron followed up with his earlier criticism, arguing that Brown had "absolutely no democratic mandate to sign this without a referendum".
For example, the ancient Egyptians used detailed word descriptions of individuals, a concept known in modern times as portrait parlé (French: "spoken portrait"), and the Babylonians pressed fingerprints into clay to identify the author of cuneiform writings and to protect against forgery.
In a way, I've written the whole thing before a detailed word comes out of my head.
