Wissam Tarif, the executive director of Insan, a Syrian human rights group, said 14 people had been detained since the declaration, seven of them in Homs.
After Obama's declaration, many of them could now say that their country is under a nuclear threat, and the best way to prevent this from happening is through the acquisition of nuclear weapons.
"When they signed that declaration, many of them did not even like one another," Mr. Biden, making his fourth trip to Baghdad as vice president, told a group of Iraqi leaders at a Fourth of July reception at the residence of the United States ambassador, Christopher R. Hill.
There are tens and tens and tens of thousands of brief asides and melodramatic declarations, all of them ancient and bizarre, and the unbearable heat of the cyber history is suffocating.
It also reaffirmed in full Great Britain's capitulary rights (trading and consular privileges) in the Ottoman Empire, while its secret provisions provided that the British assist the Ottomans in the event of a French declaration of war against them.
During the War of 1812, when the British came to torch the city, I learned that a quick-thinking government clerk named Stephen Pleasonton grabbed the country's essential documents, including the Declaration of Independence, smuggled them out of the city, crossed the Chain Bridge, an earlier version of the one there today, and stashed them in a grist mill in Virginia.
The covenant also designates several rights not listed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, among them the right of all peoples to self-determination and the right of ethnic, religious, and linguistic minorities to enjoy their own culture, to profess and practice their own religion, and to use their own language.
That I don't know whether to cry or rage at the declaration of "us and them" that these 25-foot-high concrete shields seem to make.
That I don't know whether to cry or rage at the declaration of "us and them" that these 8 metre-high concrete shields seem to make.
It was willingly made, if in addition to comprehending the meaning of his words, the maker voluntarily and intentionally uttered them as a declaration of apparent determination to carry them into execution.
