"DOMA falls outside Congress's powers" because "marriage is not commercial activity," the brief declares.
(SS 3). If however the matter be not as I suppose, but God has indeed some part therein, thou hast in brief declared the whole that can be said concerning it- let it e'en appear to me as it has to thee, and lay on me the same injunctions.
The teachings, in brief, declare that life is characterized by suffering and that suffering has a cause (which is desire), but an individual can be freed from suffering, and that way is to follow Buddhism's eightfold path, which includes precepts like right speech and right living.
With that history in mind, Lt. Col. Carl Cooper, the battalion commander at Forward Operating Base Geronimo in Nawa district, completed a briefing by declaring, "We'll be back".
He celebrated it with a brief statement declaring the formal end of the 14-year controversy over Europe and calling on the anti-marketeers to join wholeheartedly in working inside Europe to solve the economic crisis.
Not until the rumor reached her that voters believed she preferred Thomas Dewey to the nominee of her own party did she write Truman a brief note, declaring herself "unqualifiedly for you as the Democratic candidate".
"Councilman Stephenson made a brief speech declaring that the electors had expressed in no uncertain terms, by their votes, their desire and therefore he wished to nominate as first mayor, Spencer Robinson.
According to a senior American diplomat who attended the briefing, Mattis declared that, if the Iranians attacked American forces, he was authorized to defend them — and that he expected retaliation.
Empathy was all the rage in Washington only a few weeks ago, when Justice David H. Souter announced his retirement and Mr. Obama, in an appearance in the White House briefing room, declared "that quality of empathy, of understanding and identifying with people's hopes and struggles, as an essential ingredient" for a replacement.
