"The act of resolving your debts is a very complex financial transaction, and there are penalties for settling your debts," he said.
Webster's Dictionary sites as a simple definition RESOLUTION: the act of finding an answer or solution to a conflict, problem, etc.: the act of resolving something: the ability of a device to show an image clearly and with a lot of detail.
And at least one study has found that the mere act of resolving to change may increase your chances of actually changing — not by just a little, but tenfold.
He had acted as adviser to the government of Peru in resolving its border conflict with Ecuador, a dispute that had several times erupted into armed conflict.
Indeed it is only because of the application of international rules to resolve other issues that the act of state doctrine becomes the determinative issue in this case.
Some have attributed the delay in JOBS Act rule-making to the difficult task of resolving these potentially countervailing interests.
The department said the or ders, under which the defend ants agree to comply fully with the open housing act of 1968, resolved open housing suits filed Feb. 6 against Arco, Inc.; Cornette Realty, Inc. and Dan.
The level corresponds with the cap set in the Budget Control Act of 2011 that resolved the impasse over the federal debt ceiling, but it is $19 billion higher than the budget drafted by Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, and passed by the House this spring.
The level corresponds with the cap set in the Budget Control Act of 2011 that resolved the impasse over the federal debt ceiling, but it is $19 billion higher than the Ryan budget, which was itself more spending than House conservatives had wanted.
Even if there weren't any problems to begin with, the very act of attempting to resolve the tension has the potential to defuse some negative feelings.
According to a White House "fact sheet" issued Jan . 1 the spending cuts the president is describing include $1 trillion from the Budget Control Act of 2011, which resolved a debt-ceiling crisis that year.
