Still, the royal declaration made in a speech before the Shura Council, an advisory body of appointed members, was hailed as historic by many Saudis, both male and female.
Tony Blair is said to have once joked that you could hide a declaration of war in a speech about skills and no-one would ever notice it.
Critics have been quick to rip into FitzSimons for his allegedly "simplistically sloganeering", beginning with a declaration in his National Press Club speech last August: "For my money, if the republican movement has suffered from one thing over the years, it's been a surfeit of deadly earnestness, of high-brow worthiness.
That last declaration derives from a speech on May 15 by Mr. Bush, in which he proposed a partial privatization of Social Security that would fundamentally change the system by allowing workers to invest some of their payroll taxes on their own.
Meanwhile, UN teachers and troops are trying to reconstruct Bosnia; a UN agency leads the struggle to deal with refugees; the UN declaration of human rights, which Mr Clinton celebrated in a speech this week, embarrasses the world's torturers.
Mr. Bush first announced the creation of the Freedom Corps in his State of the Union speech in January, but it was overshadowed by his declaration, in the same speech, that Iraq, Iran and North Korea were part of an "axis of evil".
Her speech was a ringing declaration in a fateful public debate in Sophocles' day about the decline of religion; it was not a private opinion.
In a speech speckled with Hebrew, personal recollections of her visits to Israel, and other declarations of enduring friendship, she expressed her own strong convictions about the close bilateral relationship, etc., etc., before getting to the nuclear negotiations.
Labor's move follows Hanson's declaration in her first speech in the Senate that Australia was in danger of being "swamped" by Muslims.
In a speech entitled 'A New Partnership.
