French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said the conference needed to exert the maximum pressure on the Syrian government and also on Russia, but insisted there was no military option on the table and France could not envisage such an option without an international mandate.
But as President of the United States, I would never take any option off the table.
It is also the right approach to leave no -- take no option off the table.
Is that specific option on the table, asking Saudi Arabia to send them weapons?
Restructuring, then, is the only option, despite repeated attempts by officials to try to push that option off the table.
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And again, the United States does not take any option off the table in terms of how we're going to deal with that.
"I heard talk about establishing a preventative bloc - I want to take this option off the table, " Mr Lapid said in a statement on Wednesday evening.
And in terms of the growth standard, it promises an order of magnitude higher impact, with more winners and fewer losers than any other policy option on the table.
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"While we would hope that a resolution would come as quickly as possible through the normal process, we would not take that option off the table, " said Payne, a 58-year-old Georgia native.
So has that option off the table?
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We believe that there is time and space to continue to pursue that approach, even as we refuse and make clear that we do not take any option off the table in our effort to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
But his position is what it has been, which is that we will take no option off the table, but we believe that there is time and space to allow for a diplomatic resolution through the pressure that we are asserting on Tehran through sanctions and other means with our international partners.
He takes no option off the table in dealing with Iran, but he's focused on this diplomatic avenue because not only do we have the time and space to do so, but it is ultimately the approach that has the best chance, if successful, of ensuring that Iran does not ever build a nuclear weapon.
That option is off the table and left-right polarisation has returned, at least temporarily.
Both Israel and the U.S. have said a military option is on the table.
Another option not on the table is the status quo - everyone seems clear, when it comes to caring for the elderly and disabled, things cannot go on as they are.
Whoever ends up running Citi faces a gigantic challenge, but at least he (or she) will have plenty of latitude: Robert Rubin, the new chairman (and yet another ex-Goldmanite), has indicated that no option is off the table, even a break-up.
Romney's stance is "almost identical" to Obama's position, which seeks increased international pressure on Iran while keeping a military option "on the table, " noted Martin Indyk, a former U.S. ambassador to Israel during the Clinton administration who now is foreign policy director at the Brookings Institution.
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And I remind you that this is not the only option that is on the table.
The worst option, not shown in this table, is to leave cash in the broker's hands.
The goal, they say, is to persuade Pyongyang that going back to the negotiating table is the only option.
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Even more stimulative would be to permanently change the inflation target, though that option seems far, far off the table right now.
The status quo is the one option that's not on the table, and those who seek to block any reform at all -- any reform at any costs will not prevail this time around.
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