"We have to take decisive measures within the next week".
He merely listed taking "decisive measures against the Falun Gong cult" as one of the government's achievements.
Mr. Powell also took a tough position against Hamas, calling the group "an enemy of peace" and saying the Palestinian leadership needed to take decisive measures against it.
The diocese, it said, "will continue to take decisive measures in response to allegations and to comply with all civil and church laws," the statement said.
Outright dollarisation would, in theory, require changing Ecuador's much-broken constitution.Mr Noboa may be better placed than Mr Mahuad to take decisive measures.
He also said that "we will arrest and suppress the terrorists," and that "innocent people should leave the protests because the authorities have to take decisive measures".
Mr. Bush said he felt compelled to act because "if you don't take decisive measures, then it's conceivable that our country could go into a depression greater than the Great Depressions".
The arrests come just days after the Sudanese president, Omar al-Bashir, threatened the media and vowed to take "decisive measures" against journalists who criticise his finance minister, Bader El Deen Mahmoud.
The South Korean president, Park Geun-hye, said the country would take decisive measures against any additional provocations by North Korea and work with the international community to make sure the country pays the price for its latest nuclear test.
In a telephone conversation with Herman Van Rompuy, European council president, Wen said: "The most urgent task is to take decisive measures to prevent the debt crisis spreading further and avoid financial market turbulence, a recession and fluctuations in the euro".
