Outside the room, there's a political problem for Obama, and it's one of his own making.
What he has not cracked - although he has tried - is the political problem.
This presents a political problem for President Francois Hollande, who has promised to increase growth.
Their resistance to the establishment of a Jewish state was, for the early Israeli leadership, a political problem.
None of this, however, has stopped freer trade from becoming a political problem.
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But Mr Strauss-Kahn acknowledged in April 2011, before the Sofitel incident, that he had a potential political problem over his womanising.
Up until that moment, the Audin situation was a local political problem, but Bill had made it personal, he'd made it tribal.
The Democrats' political problem, however, is that the tax remains hugely unpopular.
The second kind of political problem has to do with limited ambition.
It is also a political problem for Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne: austerity, as it begins to bite, will not upset left-leaning voters alone.
Basque peace could be a pay-off for Mr Zapatero's softly-softly approach to Spain's most enduring political problem: regional tensions in the Basque country and in Catalonia.
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The political problem in Europe may be that its leaders have not prepared their populations for making the hard decisions that are required on the fiscal front.
Chatter has already started about Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen, with the latter being seen as an internal political problem for none other than Saudi Arabia to address.
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Mr Stewart's political problem is that in Westminster, the term "original thinker" is not a compliment, and independent judgement is often considered a vice, not a virtue.
Part of Mr Blair's political problem is that in its first two years, the government confined itself in a straitjacket by promising to stay within the Tories' spending plans.
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"Washington had decided to stay out of it for now, but it's become a grassroots political problem, " says Scott Cleland, a policy analyst for Legg Mason, a Baltimore-based investment firm.
While the merits of the lawsuit will be tried Wednesday, Gore could face a political problem by supporting the Seminole County case or its companion in Martin County, CNN election law analyst David Cardwell said.
The humanitarian problems illustrate the political problem in Zimbabwe, where a power-sharing agreement signed in September between President Robert Mugabe of the ruling ZANU-PF party and MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai has yet to take effect.
For those of us trying to navigate a way out of this political problem, having the race allows us to build bridges across communities and celebrate our nation as an idea that is positive not divisive.
No matter how useful, pleasant, legal, or logical, the rule of easy credit is a moral, cultural, economic, and political problem because it promotes and rewards fear avoidance on both a super-intimate and a socially comprehensive scale.
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That kind of conflict would spark yet another serious political and diplomatic problem that the United States would inevitably have to address.
Military and political analysts in Pakistan say the problem is a lack of political will.
She has been outspoken in her support for a political solution to the FARC problem, and supports giving them the right to representation in the Colombian political system.
In fact, Justice Roberts has shown us that the problem is political, and so is the solution.
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The solution to the U.S.-Mexico immigration problem is political and economic reform in Mexico, which would provide jobs to its citizens.
"All the military can do is buy space and time and opportunity for a political resolution of a problem, " he said.
Mr Blunkett, who served as work and pensions secretary under Tony Blair, told BBC Inside Out that a political solution to the problem of paying for elderly care was unlikely to emerge.
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