In addition, 55% of the study subjects were smokers, 92% of them declared some degree of alcohol consumption, and 10% considered themselves to be frequent drinkers.
Nervous systems have declared a considerable degree of independence relative to the older systems they serve but they are by no means free of those older systems.
Four years ago a "shareholder spring" was declared, which created a similar degree of fuss without too much substantial change to justify it.
Opening the summit at the ExCel centre in the Docklands, east London, this morning, Brown declared there was a "high degree of consensus" on a recovery plan for the economy.
When first revealed in the 1970s, the available techniques for analyses were unable to declare authenticity with a high degree of confidence, even though the evidence pointed in that direction.
"Only the presence of a high degree of practical equality," declared RH Tawney many years ago in his great treatise, Equality, "can diffuse the general opportunity to rise.
Disinterested experts, as contrasted with those emotionally or financially committed to "aviation progress," show a surprising degree of unanimity in declaring the SST to be an environ mental threat and, very likely, an eco nomic disaster.
On Aug. 26 he announced that although his doctor had declared him "completely cancer-free," a degree of immobility during his recovery had caused a recurrence of sciatica, which would prevent him from standing on the podium for long.
By 3 55 p.m., it had declared a formal blizzard warning, a rare degree of alarm.
When the matter came before the King's Bench in 1765, Lord Mansfield and the other three judges pronounced the general warrant illegal, declaring that 'no degree of antiquity could give sanction to a usage bad in itself". And see 2 Paterson, Liberty of the Subject (1877), pp. 129132.
Although there are established criteria for declaring an SUI, it is important to exercise a degree of judgement in deciding a threshold for reporting an incident as an SUI.
