Too often in the past the government's words have not been translated into deeds.Much rests on the enigmatic figure of the country's president, Umaru Yar'Adua.
The next four helped them convert this knowledge into effective action, for knowledge is useless to executives until it has been translated into deeds.
Journalists continued to receive death threats, and these were taken seriously enough to have policemen in the entrance hall, but nobody expected that words would be translated into deeds.
But, if the fighting talk from Faringdon Place stables in Lambourn is translated into deeds, those fillies who acquit themselves well in tomorrow's Nell Gwyn Stakes, the first of the traditional domestic preps for the 1,000 Guineas, will be playing only for place money in the Rowley Mile Classic.
It is time for politicians to translate words into deeds.
"What is important now is to translate words into deeds in order to protect our people in the future from any new aggression," said Nabil Abu Rdeneh.
Acknowledging for the first time that he was a moderate social democrat, Mr Hollande said there was "no time to lose", because France's "destiny" was at stake.If Mr Hollande at last sounds like a leader who knows what needs to be done to repair France's economic weaknesses, it will be a different matter to translate words into deeds.
So, should we now just rejoice and wait for the new presidents' new style to be translated into concrete deeds?
Chairing the council session, Mr Obama said "the words spoken here today must be matched and translated into action, into deeds, concrete action within nations and between them, not just in the days ahead but for years to come".
