After that, leaving a newborn anonymously in an incubator was not punished anymore, the person making this choice received legal immunity and his/her act was seen as a declaration of abandonment of the child, even though there were no papers signed.
In the years since then, many other leaders have given speeches that shared key elements of Bush's rhetoric: interpreting acts of terrorism as a declaration of war on an entire country; calling the attackers cowardly and asserting the country's own courage; and promising to hunt down the terrorists.
Years later Senator John Sherman of Ohio wrote, "The confiscation act was more useful as a declaration of policy than as an act to be enforced".
"Any provocative act would be considered as a declaration of war against us, and its consequences would serve as great obstacles to talks on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula".
The act is a declaration of such abject monstrosity that is very nearly beyond forgiveness.
Every budget is as much a declaration of principles as an actual spending plan.
However, if a judge finds that it is impossible to construe existing English law to give effect to the Human Rights Act, he may make what is known as a "declaration of incompatibility" which authorises a minister of state to change the existing English law by statutory instrument.
Whether Mr. Steel's decision last year to abandon Lincoln Center and turn City Opera into an itinerant company is seen as a declaration of independence or an act of desperation, it represented a radical departure from what the company had always been.
However, for North Korea, as it has been for other emerging nuclear weapons states, testing is above all a political act, a declaration of technical proficiency and military power.
Some tribal leaders called the act "a declaration of war" and threatened reprisals.
Take this as a declaration of war.
