A media-savvy former reporter who has handled the press with aplomb for years, Mr Sikorski acknowledged that "my memory failed me," and that indeed the February 2008 meeting had involved no one-on-one meeting between Mr Tusk and Mr Putin at all.
"I realized all the failures before us had a common denominator: there was no perseverance involved, no one was willing to just give up everything and concentrate on making this happen," he said.
If you get involved, no one will save you".
Later, when Theo insists that another vehicle was involved, no one believes him.
Since she hasn't been involved, no one has stepped up who has that glamour".
Meanwhile, Russia provides a facade of diplomacy by organising rounds of talks involving no one significant from the Syrian opposition.
Because of the costs and the time involved, no one wants to have to redo everything if in six months the law changes.
Nor do commuters in the south of England feel empowered by the fractured railway system where so many agencies are involved no one is responsible.
"There's no middle man involved, no one to come and take our products for nothing and who will sell our products at a huge mark-up to international companies".
Some of this may be politically driven: a pretense of future benefits appears better than admitting a loss; and because lives are involved, no one wants to write off sunk costs.
Of the many people involved, no one detected that the data generated by this operation crossed a reporting threshold, or, if they did, they assumed that the reporting requirement had been met elsewhere...
