Their recommendation that this new legal framework must be based on an explicit avowal of intrusive surveillance capabilities and spell out authorisation procedures, privacy constraints, transparence requirements, targeting criteria and the rest is also significant.
This tribute was prompted perhaps by Longford's optimistic avowal to the Germans that the British had forgiven them the wartime excesses.
It recognises that "Ms Sturgeon confirmed the popularity that has seen SNP membership soar since the independence referendum", and goes on to argue: "Her straightforward avowal of anti-austerity policies looks set to lose Labour any chance of gaining a governing majority.
Museveni himself shrugged off threats of aid withdrawal with a somewhat petulant avowal: "We don't need aid… because a country like Uganda is one of the richest on earth".
So David Cameron's decision to bring these directions under the oversight of the commissioner is the first public admission, or avowal, that the intelligence and security agencies use section 94 directions to obtain information from communications companies.
As is always the case with constitutional debates, this one combines the noblest motives, or their avowal, with self-interest: a need to seem attuned to public contempt for politics, and an opportunistic bid to push pet ambitions while the mood seems propitious.Consider the big speech given by David Cameron, the leader of the Conservatives, on May 26th.
I found this avowal of responsibility refreshing for about 30 seconds, until I realised Mr Almond was operating on a condescending false assumption.
This statement is likely to include, among other things, an avowal that the eventual signatories should be indifferent to the "citizenship" of airlines when granting rights to fly to their countries.
Assuming that Mr Howard isn't taking sides in the obesity debate, this avowal gestures towards a belief that divides the Conservative Party from most of the Labour Party (though not Tony Blair) and should set a framework for Tory policies.
Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, who had previously treated Mr Shevardnadze with thinly veiled dislike, came out with strong support for him, including the avowal that Georgia could sort out Abkhazia on its own if it wished.
A cynic might have concluded that he was courting scandal: an earlier House of Commons walkout by Lib Dem MPs, and Mr Clegg's avowal that he would sooner go to jail than carry an ID card, had suggested a taste for stunts.
