He called for Congress to approve a joint resolution that endorsed the idea of a diplomatic solution in southern Africa while making it clear that no party should be able to prevail militarily.
They endorse the idea of a regional solution to Afghanistan's problems yet hit Iran with sanctions because of its nuclear programme.
Most recently, the agency floated the idea of a "hybrid solution", meaning that the core of the internet, where websites and ISPs exchange data, would be regulated like a utility, whereas the networks' outer edge, where data flow from the ISP to the consumer, would remain in the information-services category.
And in late October the agency floated the idea of a "hybrid solution", meaning that the core of the internet, where websites and ISPs exchange data, would be regulated like a utility, whereas the network's edge, where data flow from the ISP to the consumer, would remain in the information-services bucket.
The EU talks back in similarly vague terms.But nothing much is happening, mainly because Russia rejects the idea of a "Hong Kong" solution for Kaliningrad, allowing it to become a de facto part of the EU while still under Russian sovereignty.
Certainly, no one quarrels with the idea of a technological solution to the growing horror of toxic waste disposal.
Trump's support "brings tidings of a new era and the opening of the idea of a regional solution," she added.
In his inauguration speech that year, Clinton called for "an expanding entrepreneurial economy" and specifically repudiated the idea of "a government solution for every problem". He was not subtle or indirect about it.
But to take that approach is, in effect, to abandon the idea of an Ockhamist solution, and to move on to the next solution.
Some supporters of BDS accept the idea of a "two-state solution". Others don't, preferring a single-state solution in which Israelis and Palestinians live together in one land.
