Leon E. Panetta, the C.I.A. director, sought to set limits this week in a court declaration opposing disclosure to the A.C.L.U. of documents related to 92 interrogation videotapes, including some showing waterboarding, that the C.I.A. destroyed in 2005.
I think the prime minister's trifecta of American broadcast interviews last Thursday walking back — he would say clarifying — his pre-election declaration opposing a Palestinian state was an effort to mend relations with allies.
There are about 32 hardline Tory backbenchers who signed the Westminster Declaration opposing same-sex marriage before the 2010 election.
But other countries have been critical of the UK's Brighton Declaration, opposing its emphasis on expanding the so-called margin of appreciation – allowing national courts to interpret human rights in different ways – and, in particular, introducing stricter criteria to reduce the number of cases reaching the court in Strasbourg.
The reason for this was the Balfour declaration (opposed by Edwin Montagu, the only Jewish member of the British cabinet) that offered a homeland in Palestine to the Zionist Federation, without any consultations whatsoever with the people who lived on the land.
Forty-one American Nobel laureates in science and economics issued a declaration yesterday opposing a preventive war against Iraq without wide international support.
The league ended its meeting with a declaration strongly opposing an American-led attack on Iraq, calling for a peaceful solution and saying that "the neighbor countries will not participate in any military operation" against Iraq.
The UN suspects they are deliberately blocking food supplies to the refugees and is investigating genocide.Superpower vetoThe Chinese and Russian presidents, Jiang Zemin and Boris Yeltsin, signed a declaration in Moscow opposing the dominance of one superpower in the post-cold-war world.
Separately, a group of 41 Nobel laureates in science, medicine and economics who signed a declaration in January opposing war with Iraq said today that eight more laureates, all winners of the Peace Prize, have joined their cause.
Last week, the Observer ran the story of how Daud Abdullah, a member of the government's Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board, had signed a declaration in Istanbul opposing the ceasefire in Gaza and advocating attacks on Royal Navy ships if they imposed an arms blockade.
