Mr. Bush would have to set the accord aside in order to proceed with building a missile defense system, a step that he signaled anew today he is wholly willing to take.
Mr. Gates said that while the United States hoped to proceed with building the two missile defense sites in Europe, it might delay activation of the system until there was "definitive proof" that Iran posed a missile threat to Europe.
Suspicions that they are seeing sketchy evidence for a long-sought particle has put physicists in Geneva in a quandary over whether to proceed with building a $4 billion particle accelerator or to continue experiments with the current equipment.
Only when the design is finished, will the 30-Meter partners, which Dr. Ellis hopes will soon include the Association of Canadian Universities for Research in Astronomy, or Acura, be able to decide whether to proceed with building the telescope and with raising the serious money it will require.
A possible way to proceed is building complementarities between these two types of experiences.
These steps would make it harder for Iran to proceed towards building a nuclear weapon - a process known as "breakout".
Rather than just analyzing the situation and spotting the issue, what if we could bring an answer to to how to proceed with building a new structure, to host the "contemporary couple" in order to live and love happily together?
The leaked, somewhat vague, announcement of plans to proceed with building is the diplomatic equivalent of what the Israeli military did last month when it massed tens of thousands of ground troops at the Gaza border.
While Mr. Bush invited Russian cooperation, he also made it clear that the administration intended to proceed with building missile sites as part of a plan to deploy the interceptor missiles in several years.
And while the Bloomberg administration expressed regrets about the impasse, officials said it was far more important to proceed apace with building a memorial, a transit center and other projects at ground zero.
