Security Council seems to be handcuffed, passing resolutions that don't make a difference on the ground.

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The federal commission doesn't have to abide by such resolutions, though.

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"The set themselves up by setting resolutions they really don't think they're going to keep, " he said.

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Ms. MORARJEE: Well, the Afghan parliament can make these resolutions but they don't have a binding power to see that they're carried out.

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They taught me that most of politics isn't about politics, in the sense of meetings, resolutions, speeches or even Parties.

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Strangly enough, the US didn't comply and thus technically broke a number of rules and resolutions linked to the treaties it signed.

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McConnell proposed votes on four Iraq resolutions, starting with one that vows Congress won't cut off funding for any troops in Iraq.

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Sinn Fein declined an interview on abortion, saying it didn't want to discuss a single issue ahead of its Ard Fheis that included 250 resolutions for debate.

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To be fair, though, I don't know of any distribution that makes it easy to switch to 100 dpi fonts for high resolutions.

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In fact, designers' resolutions are loaded with the kinds of decoration that the recent fashion for cool, contemporary hasn't allowed.

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