Sentence examples for getting a second resolution from inspiring English sources

Now that those attempts have ended in failure, we cannot pretend that getting a second resolution was of no importance.

On the first, he made rather general promises; on the second, he sounded a much bolder note as a liberator, democrat and nation-builder, not a conqueror or bully (see article).Whether or not he manages to appease his critics on these points, Mr Bush faces an uphill struggle to achieve his other immediate objective: getting a second resolution through the United Nations Security Council.

Blair got the Americans to make an attempt to get a second resolution.

"It became clear to me that we were never going to get a second resolution out of the United Nations," he said.

New polls in Europe and the US yesterday suggested that opposition is still mounting and is likely to continue even if the US gets a second resolution.

"They really needed advice, even if they didn't want it at that stage, in order to develop their policy in the weeks leading up to the failure to get a second resolution," he said.

The summit explains one of the great mysteries of the Iraq war – why the Americans were so lacklustre in their attempts to get a second resolution at the UN in March 2003.

Dominique de Villepin, France's foreign minister, drew hearty applause from the delegates when he said war was tantamount to failure and should be used only as a last resort.To get a second resolution, the Americans need the support of nine of the 15 council members and must avoid a veto from any of the five permanent members.

On the February 15 anti-war march, one of the talking-points was how Blair seemed to have shafted himself: if he didn't get a second resolution, he would have to choose between going back on his promise to the British people or going back on his friendship with Bush.

"Where we are is where we are, and this is not a criticism and don't write it as such, but if it had been up to me I would have waited months, perhaps, to get a second resolution, when it would have been clear that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction," he says.

"You'd think that the effort to get a third resolution is dead," said Bruce Riedel, a former senior official at the CIA, Pentagon and NSC now at the Brookings Institution.