So how able would the United States be to put into effect the "contingency plans" that Mr Obama referred to?
His thoughts on the subject are a year in the making and could take up to eight years to put into effect.
If you had the power to put into effect things you consider right, would you do so against the wishes of the majority?
In order to put into effect the philosophy of Islamic finance, various structures have been developed to meet the demands of Shariah and commerce.
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Silver had gone parabolic and the higher margins had to be put into effect to protect the system.
Such calculations and contributions by private business could become a major part of future rail developments, if all the lessons of the rail renaissance are to be put into effect elsewhere.
Now, researchers have come up with a new reason to put this treaty into effect quickly.
General David Petraeus, the doctrine's leading proponent, was sent to Iraq with more troops to put it into practice, to striking effect.
Mr Annan has written to Mr Assad urging him to put his commitments into immediate effect.
It will meet again on 22 August to consider whether to put the proposed rates into effect.
Texas is the first state to put a castration law into effect.
Enough time remains to put this simple plan into effect.
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Moreover, since in practice the party would be culturally and emotionally incapable of getting together with the Tories, it might as well get something out of its relationship with Labour: a slice of power to put its cherished policies into effect.
The concerted effort to do just that was put into effect at the 2012 festival.
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The IRS figured this out pretty quickly after the rules for conversion from a qualified plan to a Roth IRA were put into effect in 2009.
LONDON, England (CNN) -- British airlines have put into effect measures to stop people with swine flu boarding flights in a bid to prevent the virus from spreading further.
Clauses to this effect were subsequently put into contracts that Skins signed with athletes and teams, and the firm vowed that if any of its sportspeople or teams were caught "systematically cheating" - on a regular and calculating basis - then the firm would "terminate the contract, and terminate it very loudly".
The Mexican sales decline was due to higher prices that the company recently put into effect in the region.
So we lost almost 8 million jobs before any of the economic policies we put into place were able to take effect.
Under some liberal theories, this would allow the president to put some measures of the new arms treaty into effect by executive order.
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The upcoming debate on the debt limit offers the perfect opportunity for Congress to stop playacting and put a real budget constraint into effect.
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Home Secretary RK Singh told the BBC that the policy, due to come into effect on Tuesday, had been put on hold for technical reasons.
Adopt the 2009 or 2010 rules for 2011 (with perhaps the imposition of rookie scale contracts which both sides have agreed to in principle), set a hard deadline of August 1 to have a new collective bargaining agreement signed, and put it into effect as of March 1, 2012.
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The law, scheduled to go into effect immediately after the November 2002 elections, was put on hold while the Supreme Court considered the case.
The ban will be put into full effect on Friday, and police are using Thursday to inform drivers of the ban and suggest alternate routes.
He says that almost 75% of World Health Organization member countries have some sort of plan to improve physical activity, but only 55% of the plans have been put into effect and only 42% of the plans in effect are well-funded.
The ban, which Earl Beatty Public School put into effect last week, was not even prompted by an injury to a child, but rather came after a parent suffered a concussion from being hit in the head with a soccer ball.
When put into effect, investors in Alternative Investment Market (AIM) shares will be able to avoid capital gains tax, income tax, inheritance tax and now stamp duty.
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The decree should have come into effect at the end of January but on January 21st the government put back the deadline to July 31st.
As for intellectual advantages, parents soak their babies in Mozart with dubious effect, put a toy computer in the crib, elbow their way into the best preschools to speed them on their path to Harvard.
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