It was an astonishing announcement.
Except for indirectly explaining why the moon is associated with Islam in the first place, all the while refuting Golda Mier's astonishing declaration "there is no such thing as a Palestinian" all in one fell swoop, taboot.
He also made the astonishing declaration that he felt no need to apologize personally in Rwanda, because, he said, "I have no regrets".
One, Scott Bade, made the most astonishing declaration midway through dinner: "This is the best meal I've had in Paris!" Good grief, I thought, what have you been eating?
It was he who, in June 1940, and with the fall of France imminent, signed up to the still astonishing Declaration of Union between the two countries, crafted by Jean Monnet.
I have the quiet righteous malice of one with better poems than other women's reputations have been made by"); and, most chilling, her astonishing declaration of her hatred for her mother, Aurelia, which runs on for pages in the journal for December 1958: "In a smarmy matriarchy of togetherness it is hard to get a sanction to hate one's mother"; "So how do I express my hate for my mother?
The house and the Stone Library, built for John Quincy Adams, hold an astonishing 78,000 historical artifacts, including one of the few original copies of the Declaration of Independence.
Notting Hill's wealth enables it to make vibrant declaration of its diversity - its Italianate Victorian villas, petite mews houses and council estates accommodate an astonishing variety of peoples from Spain, Italy, Ireland and especially the Caribbean.
What an astonishing sentence.
It is an astonishing reversal.
