Pundits agree this is merely the latest in a string of IMF led bailouts that squandered billions of dollars and failed to save the economies they were meant to help.

The nature of that failure, however, is disputed.

The impossible was achieved.

The impossible has been achieved.

This can no longer be accomplished on a purely national level.

A solution to the problem birds, however, is far from within reach.

So there is no agreement yet to make the EFSF permanent, and it has been designed to be as un federal as possible.

Wasn't Germany's unification a matter of blood and iron''?

A consensus has now been reached on the need to assist smallholders, but obstacles remain. Perhaps the main risk is that the aid bureaucracies now trip over each other to try to get their hands on the 20 billion, so that much of it gets taken up by meetings, expert consultations, overhead, reports, and further meetings.

A consensus has now been reached on the need to assist smallholders, but obstacles remain.

With 2015 fast approaching, a conversation has started about what progress has been made, and what still needs to be done.

But thus far, there is no agreement on the timing of a referendum.

They would all be bacon and sausages before any agreement was reached.

Because everyone must agree, nothing is agreed.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

On this issue, basic agreement seems to have been achieved.

There is very little probability of an agreement being reached.

And so, after six months of bargaining, a historic deal was struck.

In 1987, at the Louvre conference, there was not even any agreement about what had been concluded.

Although no consensus has yet emerged on a code of ethics, there is wide agreement among scientists that a robust public health system is an essential safeguard against biological threats, whether intentional or unintentional. Security and public health concerns now overlap, whereas traditionally they had been separate areas that elicited different kinds of policy responses.

Although no consensus has yet emerged on a code of ethics, there is wide agreement among scientists that a robust public health system is an essential safeguard against biological threats, whether intentional or unintentional.

Presumably, Blair is not proposing to the Palestinians the creation of a state before an agreement is reached on final borders. There cannot be a Palestinian state without dealing with West Bank settlements.

Presumably, Blair is not proposing to the Palestinians the creation of a state before an agreement is reached on final borders.

I haven't decided yet.

But suppose a two state solution were achieved in the not too remote future.

The Security Council s composition wouldn t be substantially different if an ideal distribution of seats were to be achieved.

Fortunately, enough was accomplished in Copenhagen to re boot the process.

For example, thanks to tremendous advances in the fields of engineering.

Both sides have known throughout the tortuous negotiations of recent months that failure to reach an agreement would benefit no one.

Policy makers need to be aware that good teaching cannot be delivered by just anybody out of a script.

The history books are not yet written, nor the victor declared.

The significance of what was accomplished stems in part from Bin Laden s symbolic importance.

What generations of Europeans have dreamt of is at long last within reach.

Importantly, there is already broad agreement on a set of shared goals.

But it is not clear how that increase in innovation will be achieved.

It is not too late.

That hasn t happened yet.

All is not lost.

'But let me have her, let me have my little girl!

I've never been tired yet.

That has not happened yet.

It s not complete yet.

That's not all.

This is not over yet.

The train hasn't arrived yet.