"That is a firm commitment, and a firm deadline which we will meet, " he assured peers.
It's a noble effort, with 539 signatories to date, but it has no teeth: no firm deadline for offsetting greenhouse gas emissions and no penalty for not doing so.
Some guarantees are still plainly needed now, but a firm deadline of, say, five years for the final expiry of the governments' various crisis-induced pledges should be set globally.
Until recent days, that was the president's firm deadline.
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So plenty of warm words, but no indication of what the government's response to the report will be - although Mr Clegg has set himself a firm deadline with that "before the spring of this year" line.
The Netherlands has been asked to submit its budget measures to the European Commission by 30 April, although it is not clear how firm that deadline is.
Was that just a little -- like he just didn't mention the deadline, or how firm is the deadline in terms of by the end of this year?
The hedge-fund firm has a deadline next Friday for investors who want to withdraw money on June 30.
The Russian firm later postponed the deadline for Belarus to repay the debt after a first instalment was paid.
The Premier League took rights to 46 of next season's games back from beleaguered firm on Friday after it missed a payment deadline.
It proved possible to meet such a tight deadline only because Prosoz, a German software firm, had already developed the core of the application.
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The bidders must now make a firm offer by 13 November, an extension to the original deadline of a fortnight.
Their ability to hold firm reinforced the principles of delivering early and often, reducing waste, and sticking to the deadline no matter what.
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The Financial Services Authority has extended the normal six-month deadline for people to go to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) if a firm turns down their original complaint.
Investors with one eye on the euro-zone crisis are aware that the firm has a proven ability to design, print and deliver brand new currencies against a tight deadline.
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