Now on the verge of battlefield defeat, the rebels reiterated their calls for the government to cease its offensive and restart talks to resolve the ethnic conflict between the minority Tamils and the Sinhalese majority.
"Especially in the face of such a reprehensible and inappropriate remark, it's my hope that the House could be united in resolving such an offensive comment," McDonald said.
If the offensive line's problems are not resolved soon, where can the team turn?
Somewhere around the time of the failed offensive against Moscow in December 1941, Hitler resolved that the Jews of Europe were to be exterminated immediately.
The Obama administration has endorsed the Pakistani Army's recent offensive in South Waziristan, suggesting it showed overdue resolve.
The Giants may not resolve the alignment of their offensive tackles and guards until just before the start of the regular season, though it may be affected by the N.F.L. draft on April 20.
The offensive to retake Mosul, dubbed Operation Inherent Resolve, began just a month before last year's presidential election.
The band decided that it was cool if I had found a way to resolve my personal conflicts with the offensive material, but they had not.
For the dry season of 1943 44 both the Japanese and the Allies were resolved on offensives in Southeast Asia.
On 31 October, the German Army high command ordered a halt to all offensive operations until increasingly severe logistical problems were resolved and the rasputitsa subsided.
