On Wednesday, America, China, Russia, France, Britain and Germany announced that they would no longer tolerate Iran's refusal to give a yes or a no to a package of incentives and potential punishments they hoped would stop Iran's enrichment of uranium.

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But I'm asking about the President's position, a yes or no question.

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"With me, it's either a quick yes, or a quick no--never a slow maybe, " Nardelli says.

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"It looks very good that we come together (do a deal), it just takes a little bit of time because it's a situation where you cannot say yes or no immediately, " he said.

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Distorting your opponent's record is easy: congressmen often have to vote yes or no to omnibus bills with hundreds of loosely-related provisions, so they can all be portrayed as having backed a provision that, on its own, they would have shunned.

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Scotland's voters go to the polls on 18 September next year when they will be asked to say yes or no to independence.

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Tuesday's Stormont session, which rubber-stamped the executive's agreement to extend the cross community compromise over the justice department, was rather more predictable than Tuesday's Dail sitting, when Enda Kenny confirmed that the Irish people would be given their chance to say yes or no to the European fiscal compact.

BBC: Referenda still on the agenda on both sides of the border