President Hamid Karzai, in a statement, in effect blamed the Taliban.
It was an extraordinary statement: in effect, the EU's standard-bearer was threatening the EU.
Britain and Denmark are the key countries, and the Cohen statement in effect gives them a veto over this damaging project.
Mr. Johnson, confirming a report in Time magazine, said Ms. Stewart, through her lawyers, had asked the committee "to issue a statement in effect clearing her".
"Payment for May should be done before 9 June," Miller said in the statement, in effect extending the deadline by six days.
His statement, in effect declaring Brown unelectable, will further weaken the prime minister's waning authority and takes the challenge to his leadership to a dangerous level.
However, to hold the prime minister to her promise, Cooper tabled an amendment to reiterate May's statement, in effect forcing the government to vote for her amendment.
"Instead of condemning the unlawful killings by the security forces, which have seen the deaths of more than 40 people in the last three weeks, this statement in effect authorises excessive use of force against peaceful protesters".
"Instead of condemning the unlawful killings by the security forces, which have seen the deaths of more than 40 people in the last three weeks, this statement in effect authorises excessive use of force against peaceful protesters," said Muthoni Wanyeki, Amnesty International's regional director for East Africa, the Horn and the Great Lakes.
His melody bled into his recitatives, creating moments of aching sweetness in simple declarative statements or, in effect, pulling other characters into the action.
