The lack of consensus in Congress puts Mr. Obama in a tricky domestic and diplomatic bind.
Israeli diplomats said that Mr. Peres, who will meet with Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday, had come to try and ward off such a resolution, which would put Israel in a diplomatic bind at a time when the peace process is at an impasse.
As Scott Shane writes in Tuesday's Times, "taking a hard line against a nuclear-armed Iran, yet opposing military action for now and escalating sanctions" is a familiar diplomatic bind for the United States: Echoes of the period leading up to the Iraq war in 2003 are unmistakable, igniting a familiar debate over whether journalists are overstating Iran's progress toward a bomb.
He was hunted down by the new regime, drugged, gagged and put in a diplomatic crate bound for Nigeria.
Transporting a diplomatic mission bound for Japan and goods for delivery to the Kamchatka Peninsula of eastern Siberia, Krusenstern left Russia, rounded Cape Horn, and, crossing the Pacific, visited the Marquesas Islands.
Australia's close economic and diplomatic relationship with China "binds us, but it does not blind us" on issues such as territorial disputes in the South China Sea, Plibersek said.
The report identified several times since May 2012 when the regime procured items such as cars, tobacco, alcohol, consumer electronics and cosmetics by, for example, falsely declaring the goods were bound for diplomatic missions in Pyongyang.
Despite yesterday's diplomatic breakthrough, there are bound to be suspicions in Washington and elsewhere that North Korea may be playing for time and that President Kim will eventually resume his nuclear weapons programme.
WASHINGTON — As American and European diplomats prepare for crucial negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program, the White House finds itself caught in a bind: for the diplomatic effort to work, American officials say, the Iranian government must believe that President Obama is ready and willing to take military action.
CRAWFORD, Tex., Oct. 14 — This Saturday, a military jet with the code name "Bright Star" will take off from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, bound for a diplomatic mission in the Middle East.
Nor, in the immediate future, is the issue likely to cause serious foreign-policy problems, though it is bound to cause diplomatic friction, for instance, at next week's summit in Delhi with the European Union.
