"This apparent escalation of tensions in the Middle East, a kind of declaration of war, is unwarranted," Mr. Jackson said.
Iceland's street protests were a demand for political accountability and reform, but also a kind of declaration of demotion.
"This will be perceived as a kind of declaration of war on Turkey," said Cengiz Candar, a columnist for Radikal, a Turkish daily.
"In a way, the play was a kind of declaration to my own friends, first of all, and then to my class," he told the Paris Review.
Two hundred and thirty feet of couched stitches and terse Latin phrases, it is a beloved record of conquest in a country that prides itself on not having been conquered, a kind of declaration of subjugation.
So this patient's concern stood out in my mind — he truly feels his psychotherapy is a mark against him, a kind of declaration or admission that he is damaged.
On its transfer to the New York stage, it was initially panned by critics "In a way, the play was a kind of declaration to my own friends, first of all, and then to my class, the bourgeois class," Wallace told the Paris Review later.
The stunning noise that Maria makes when she hits the ball is a kind of declaration of intent, a dare: Match this intensity, or you're going to be roadkill.
Any kind of public declaration about the truth of one's sexuality, whether made via YouTube to millions of followers or made quietly in a room to one or two people, is a blow for truth and honesty and a counterattack against the suffocating and damaging effects of homophobia.
A ringing – or any other kind of – declaration of modern liberties it most definitely is not.
