She applied a bandage to my hurt finger.

The political system is deeply skewed against challenges to the two incumbent parties.

This means regular elections, a democratic constitution, and civil society, coupled with electoral fraud, skewed representation, human rights violations, and restrictions on civil liberties.

Existing laws already covered some provisions of these treaties, some provisions have been and are being accommodated through amendment to existing legislation and some have been catered for through new legislation.

Tweaking the law's clearly not good enough, and tort reform, which is a great idea, lowers your cost if you're a businessperson, but it's like a Band Aid on this gaping wound of distrust.

Actions speak louder than words. All too often, policymakers treat public diplomacy as a bandage that can be applied after damage is done by other instruments.

In fact, US trade deficits are primarily the result of insufficient, mainly government, saving not a misaligned exchange rate, as economists have led policymakers to believe.

These are ambitious hopes, but even if the UN Security Council adopts and implements a resolution that would lead to such an eventual solution, it will provide just another band aid and temporary relief.

After all, when the chimpanzee itself was new and interesting (in the 1700 s), contemporary scholars commonly judged it to be overwhelmingly similar to the human form so much so, that it was commonly classified as a variant of humans.