With a stopgap law expiring Saturday, the showdown has set up a political battle likely to play out through the November elections if both sides refuse to back down.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates acknowledged on Monday that rescuing hostages in this case, Navy snipers took out Phillips' three captors is only a stopgap way of dealing .
Tehran could use all these stopgap methods to buy time which is all it really needs to do.
BSA decision just a stopgap in the big picture Undoubtedly, the recent vote was just a stopgap measure to buy the organization some time to figure out a longer-term strategy. In the short-term, the organization will have to confront some backlash of the recent policy change.
June 7, 2013 - Barrow Journal
The BSA decision is just a stopgap in the big picture Undoubtedly, the recent vote was just a stopgap measure to buy the organization some time to figure out a longer-term strategy. In the short-term, the organization will have to confront some backlash of the recent policy change.
June 7, 2013 - The Jackson Herald
Readers Feel... The Texas Legislature's redistricting mission was supposed to be easy-peasy: Zip in for a special session, ratify the court-drawn maps used as a stopgap in the 2012 elections, close the legislative books and go home.
June 7, 2013 - KAMR Amarillo
Chip Pickering in Forbes It would be a Band-Aid or stopgap that would prevent us from getting to the comprehensive reform,Pickering said in an interview.
Rod Blagojevich in St. Louis Post-Dispatch These one-month stopgap emergency budgets are necessary for now,Blagojevich said, "but a continuing stream of one-month budgets is nothing more than a Republican budget in disguise."
Jeff Probyn in International Herald Tribune It's a bad move because Brian is not a long-term solution,Probyn said. "It's a short term stopgap and that's not what England need. They need to put in place a structure that will take them forward for the next 10 years rather than taking...