Fukuyama offers firm recommendations about the struggle against terrorism.

In his memo to the President he took pains to write that these were suggestions rather than firm recommendations.

And before you can make firm recommendations you need better numbers.

However, the scientific studies are not conclusive enough for experts to make any firm recommendations.

The committee was dissolved in 1999, releasing , but no firm recommendations, partly due to disagreements between researchers and manufacturers.

Yet their firmest recommendation to me remains that they be supported in their efforts to find these vicious aliens.

No firm recommendations on weeding practice can be drawn from the conflicting findings of these reports.

We believe, however, that further study is needed before firm recommendations about umbilical cord clamping can be made.

"But this will be a very firm recommendation," he said.

It is too early, he says, to base any firm recommendations on the work so far.