The back-and-forth was a blunt reminder that Mr. Obama remains a polarizing figure as the two parties seek common ground on an emotional issue that has defied resolution for more than two decades.
Mr. Castañeda, who just a few weeks ago declared that Mexico would agree only to a comprehensive agreement on immigration -- "the whole enchilada or nothing" -- said today that it was very ambitious to anticipate that the two countries could settle in four to six years issues that had defied resolution for more than a century.
While the president warned of Soviet-inspired trouble brewing in Southeast Asia, at the Interior Department, Secretary Stewart L. Udall took on an issue in the District that for years had defied resolution -- integrating the Washington Redskins.
The violence, instead, exposed one of the unsettling realities of a conflict that has defied resolution for decades.
The largely peaceful protesters still camped out in the streets, calling for democracy, remain a vulnerable backdrop to an armed conflict that has defied resolution.
He argues, plausibly, that the standoff defies resolution because Kim Jong Il has "institutionalized brinksmanship".
You emerge from it restive and itchy, as though a movie screen could give you sunburn, and the story defies resolution.
Pelosi, who began talking shortly after 10 a.m., sought the same assurances Democrats have gotten in the Senate — the promise of debate on an immigration bill, the one glimmer of hope on an issue that seems to defy resolution.
A strong feature in the Malevich-based heritage of cerebral compositions is the structuring of movement that retains its tension and defies resolution.
Melodic lines snaked quickly through oblique intervals, defying resolution.
The consensus sequence of T3Δ1.3AE also revealed four mutations polymorphic over wild-type that were not near fixation and thus of such possibly weak benefit as to defy resolution in our compensatory assay (Additional file 1).
