Some of these are to be given school-improvement partners to chivvy them into raising their game, some taken over by better-performing neighbours, and some closed forthwith and replaced by "academies"—state-funded independent schools that are overseen directly from Whitehall.But these half-measures do not seem to have done even half the job.
If Iraq's leader tells the Americans to go forthwith, they must do so.
He says that large areas of the West Bank must be annexed forthwith, circumscribing the main Palestinian towns as islands of autonomy at most.
Several radical Shias, reckoning that their leaders might be more able to impose their authority on the country if the Americans and their allies were to leave forthwith, blamed the Americans.
Watching the trial live on television, or standing outside the court building listening to the proceedings through loudspeakers, Filipinos did not know whether to laugh or cry, as a bumbling prosecution team ineptly set about trying to prove that Mr Estrada was a villain who should forthwith be removed from office.
But in the meantime it has had no option other than to cancel all flights forthwith, stranding some unlucky fliers.
Whereas the lawyers treat Mr Abdel Jalil as a figurehead, he reckons he is the new president.Although the liberals want Colonel Qaddafi to depart forthwith, Mr Abdel Jalil says his offer to negotiate should be considered.
Boot out the unelected peers forthwith!
The soviets should forthwith confiscate landlords' estates without compensation, nationalize all land, and divide it among the peasants.
One view was that there would be an immediate individual judgment and that instant justice would follow: the deceased would be dispatched forthwith to hell or paradise.
"This is an act of aggression and will you ask the Secretary of State for Defence and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to make a statement about what Her Majesty's Government will do to ensure these illegal incursions into British sovereign waters are stopped forthwith?" The Commons Leader said the Government had protested to Spain through diplomatic channels.
