Indeed, his vacillations over how to respond to the report could have done his standing grave damage.Originally, the Palestinians had planned to present a draft resolution in Geneva demanding that the report be submitted for discussion at the Security Council, which has the power to ask the International Criminal Court (ICC) to prosecute people for war crimes.
A big fall in net migration would have weighed on the economy: GDP has risen by 7.8% over this parliament; GDP per person is up by only 4.2%.You might think that the government's vacillations are ancient history or that doing the right thing is more important than saying it.
Stung by Japan's vacillations over whether to send people or money to Kuwait in the 1990-91 Gulf war (it went for the chequebook), he championed more decisive leadership through the creation of single-seat electoral districts.
Enlargement should favour a stronger pro-American and pro-NATO consensus within the EU, after the vacillations of the past year.In short, the new members have the chance to show themselves a force for good in the European Union, and to show their voters at home that the EU is a force for good in national life.
But that chance so far has been squandered, thwarted by the army's recalcitrance, the weakness of a fractious coalition government, and the president's own flip-flops and vacillations.
But even if that were true, it made him look like a wimp.His vacillations compounded his party-management problems.
Britain and France may have had cause to complain of Mr Dulles's vacillations over the Canal dispute and the Users Associationn, but their action now puts his failings in the shade.
Without further vacillations, its effect will stay in the numbers for a year and then abruptly disappear.
His vacillations have annoyed his disciplinarian finance minister, Francisco Gil Diaz.
His political vacillations make him an enigmatic personality.
Eventually, after vacillations that drove her councillors to despair, she agreed first to provide some limited funds and then, in 1585, to send a small expeditionary force to the Netherlands.
