Gooi Soon Seng, Aisyah's defense attorney, went so far as to say that the murder amounted to a "declaration of war" since it used chemical weapons, and that the government wasn't addressing the true seriousness of the crime.
Jamie Curtis, chairman of the Genesee County board of commissioners, said he was confused by Tuesday's declaration, since the commissioners declared an emergency back in October.
It was an odd declaration, since the warehouses and piers south of the Brooklyn Bridge had long been shuttered.
For years, all one saw was a huge L-shaped warehouse whose side was emblazoned with the motto "Brooklyn Works". It was an odd declaration, since the warehouses and piers south of the Brooklyn Bridge had long been shuttered.
In February, the government declared famine in two regions ― the world's first such declaration since 2012.
Darryl Jenkins, an airline consultant, described Delta's move as "almost a declaration of war" on American, since it dominates the lucrative O'Hare-to-LaGuardia route.
Even before Mr. Nagin angered many whites with a speech in January predicting that the city would be "chocolate" once again, his previous base of support in the largely white Uptown neighborhoods here had begun to wither — a fact the now-infamous declaration may merely have recognized, since it appeared to be a bid for black support.
Her only political declaration since Mr. Calderón has taken office has been to condemn the legalization of abortion in Mexico City.
Colorado hasn't seen flooding severe enough to require a federal emergency declaration since May 1999, when storms swept through the Rockies.
The new president first indicated that he would devalue the peso in his inaugural address on Tuesday night, and he has done so again in every public declaration since then.
