On Dec. 17, in a ceremony that cast a faint but warm glow on the otherwise frosty relations between Taiwan and the People's Republic, the Akshobhya Buddha was solemnly returned to its torso -- this time affixed to the shoulders by a steel rod, in part to prevent future thefts.
But Mr. Arafat and Mr. Barak have reportedly agreed that the city should be free and open to citizens of both states and to all religions, so that Jews would go to the Western Wall under a declaration of peace and Arab leaders would return solemnly, triumphantly to Al-Aqsa mosque.
"The objective of the CNRDR does not in any way aim to confiscate power, and we solemnly swear to return power to a democratically elected president as soon as national unity and territorial integrity are established," they said in a statement.
Every few years, the American foreign policy establishment solemnly warns of the return of isolationism.
In return for his solemnly abjuring all further claims on Israel, Israel would acquiesce in the emergence of a Palestine state.
Voices intoned solemnly about the need to return to the "other place" and for a second, just for a second, the spell was broken.
Finishing her vocals, our heroine was to remove her headphones and walk solemnly out into the daylight, never to return.
There is the loaf that Mikhail, freshly returned from a logging camp, solemnly unwraps before his awe-struck family, and the golden, seemingly self-replenishing bread that figures in the heartbreaking fantasy sequence that concludes the first evening.
I solemnly said farewell to New York and decided I would not return until I could come back to Manhattan, which meant until I prospered.
– solemnly swore to uphold in the 1994 Budapest memorandum, in return for a newly independent Ukraine agreeing to give up one of the world's largest stocks of nuclear weapons.
