An astute use of this week's events and Annan's call to unified action could lead to a Security Council resolution calling for a cease-fire and peace conference within 30 days.

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As headlines emerged from the meeting, it became apparent that investors are watching Europe closely for cues of unified political action.

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The Serbs' maneuver was made the more diabolical, however, for its being cloaked in the garb of a legitimate exercise of democracy -- a proposition calculated further to undermine the prospects for unified Western action during the interval.

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For that reason and others, we believe there is time and space to pursue a diplomatic path, a path that intensifies the sanctions, intensifies the isolation, and attempts, through unified international action, to get the Iranian regime to change its behavior.

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In May 2012, a bipartisan group of 92 members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to President Barack Obama calling for a unified U.S. strategy and international action against IEDs.

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To create a more unified response to the nursing crisis on a European level, the Joint Action on Health Workforce Planning, funded in part by the European Commission, recently launched a project to foster international cooperation.

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"This has been a unified approach, rather than a divisive approach, " says Douglas Holtz-Eakin, the president of the American Action Forum.

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