He called on Israeli and Palestinian leaders to address the tough "final status" issues that had bedeviled peace negotiators since 1979.
De Mistura appears to be following the model of the Oslo talks between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation: their initial 1993 agreement was dramatic but was followed by interim deals, while the toughest "final status" issues were left until the end of a "peace process" that was emptied of content until it ground to a halt.
For the traditionalists who had a tough weekend, the status quo fought back for you Monday.
Kovalchuk's popularity is on the rise, but his status is tough to measure in the N.H.L. because football, baseball and basketball dwarf the Thrashers in recognition.
It's an excellent play - one in which anxieties about race, gender and the rest are felt only by their absence as the white guys tough it out for status.
I want to thank you all for your passionate, thoughtful, sometimes amusing and generally quite tough comments on the status of Elliot Ness/Spitzer.
She gained something of a cult status for playing tough, hard women in pictures like "The Alligator People" (1959) and Roger Corman films like "Gunslinger" (1956), "It Conquered the World" (1956) and "Naked Paradise" (1957).
He wants action: enhanced military status, weaponry, tougher sanctions against Russia.
(She is as cagey about this as she has always been: she will not prejudge the outcome, but there is "across the board a call for tough, independent regulation. The status quo is NOT an option").
How often do international actors address a crisis only once it has reached the status of too tough to resolve.
