The canal, Pintard thought, was "an enterprize second only in importance to this State, to the declaration & achievement of Am.
After all, can I really contend that my collection of books, ranged on shelves like some bogus declaration of achievement (for surely the philistine is right to ask the man of culture, "Have you really read all these?"), tells my children anything more about me than my much smaller collection of postcards and photographs?
Such startling inequality means that despite well-meaning political declarations, the achievement of basic human rights is far from reality for too many women around the world.
Objective declarations of aesthetic achievement have come to seem suspect as scholars intently discern political and cultural presuppositions that taint every such assertion.
If so, this would undermine the declaration's one big achievement.
"But for states with diverse histories and divergent political interests, agreeing a declaration is a major achievement".
In an otherwise positive reflection of Arsenal's season, Glenn Moore wrote for The Independent: "There may thus have been some truth in Arsène Wenger's declaration that Arsenal's achievement was a greater triumph than winning the Champions Leaguee.
"If we sign the treaty, there may be more progress in other areas; if we don't sign, we will have a repetition of the old story – a nice declaration but no practical achievements".
Certainly, some kind of concrete, even if vague, achievement like a declaration of principles would be helpful for Mr. Barak.
Roosevelt regarded the writing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as her greatest achievement.
As a delegate to the United Nations, she regarded the writing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as her greatest achievement.
