It would have meant acting independently, not asking permission from the US or EU or even the UN.
In the ante-room the press lobby forms a huddle around the prime minister's press officer who tries to explain what the prime minister had really meant and what he might have meant had he been asked something else entirely.
But the court, in an opinion by Judge David Tatel David Tatel, said granting what the Bush Administration was asking would have meant transforming executive privilege into "virtual immunity from suit".
Asking someone if he had lost weight was taboo; it meant asking if he was sick.
To occupy his mind he told himself the story about an Irishman who had meant to ask his neighbor for the use of his sleigh.
It turned out the student had misspoken, and had meant to ask about President Obama, the man whose administration Ms. Clinton represents.
(Although I did wish I'd been able to decipher what the chef had meant when he asked if we'd like to try the "crafty"; as it turned out it was clafoutis, a delicious French dessert that somehow manages to be both custard and sponge cake at the same time).
For the small, grassroots organizations you've asked about, that often means asking early about governance and about basic financial management.
I suppose it's a remarkable coincidence that two people from that course should have gone on to become playwrights," he says, "although it has meant that my daughters do ask sometimes why I'm not famous like Alan Bennett".
Asked if he had meant superiority in soccer, he said "no, as a country".
