As German pressure mounted on Czechoslovakia, Churchill without success urged the government to effect a joint declaration of purpose by Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union.
This is the opportunity for a national declaration of purpose, initiated by the state but working closely in an open relationship with business, finance and our world‑class universities.
We were immediately disarmed, how ever, once we crossed the threshold and read the idealistic declaration of purpose of this singular museum devoted exclusively to Brazilian naïve and folk art.
On the three-year-old building itself, which looks more like a warehouse than a cathedral, a large cross over the rear entrance is the only declaration of purpose.
Phase 1, which might be defined as a declaration of purpose, is dominated by the four famous modernist touchstones from 1915: squarish, decisively anti-Cubist paintings of bulky black forms, a square, a cross, a circle and a monumental hovering rectangle that is a knockout.
Its original declaration of purpose, from 1958, balanced the purely scientific with the practical, devoting the agency to both "the expansion of human knowledge of phenomena in the atmosphere and space" and "the improvement of the usefulness, performance, speed, safety, and efficiency of aeronautical and space vehicles".
This has moved the conversation beyond declaration of purpose to verification of performance, beyond framed mission statements on conference room walls to signed benefit corporation laws passed in the legislative halls in the majority of states in the country.
When KOR was founded, in September of 1976, its members wrote a declaration of purpose to which they not only signed their names but also - an act without precedent for an opposition group in Poland - affixed their addresses and telephone numbers.
