As my colleague Amy Davidson pointed out a while back, "Declaring that Hillary is the only woman with a chance is a denial of the promise of any number of other, emerging women politicians".
Weeks later, Facebook fired back, declaring that 10 of its own patents were infringed by Yahoo.
Rebel leaders, however, had resisted earlier attempts to push them back, declaring that they wanted a guarantee of amnesty.
Mick Channon did not hold back, declaring that "the game was nearly ruined by an imposter calling himself a referee".
This time it was the insurance companies' turn, and they did not hold back, declaring that Deutsche Bank was cynically seeking to exploit the Sept. 11 attack to tar their image and force insurers to pay more than $1 billion for the damage to the bank's former United States headquarters near ground zero.
Like a jealous child who wanted his toy back, Noel declared that Williams was a just a "fat dancer from Take That" – from which point Liam, it appeared, was not allowed to come out to play.
And Gingrich was following Rick Santorum, who, back in February, declared that Obama's energy policies are based on a "phony theology" that "elevates the earth above man".
Nouriel Roubini, an economics professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, who had warned about the housing bubble back in 2004, declared that "socialism is indeed alive and well in America," but with a twist: "This is socialism for the rich, the well connected, and Wall Street".
SF 10.47am GMT Cameron speech: the key points Photograph: RUBEN SPRICH/REUTERS To recap, the British PM has told world leaders and business men and women that the UK, and Europe, can reshore jobs back home, and declared that shale gas energy help drive the recovery.
As far back as 1909, Margaret Mead declared that "so longstanding and so rapid have been these processes of change that expectation of change and anxiety about change have been built into our character as a people".
