Such moves were likely to turn the boisterous separatist street celebrations that greeted the independence declaration on Friday into mass protests, with one Catalan labor union already calling on workers to stage a general strike on Monday.
Muslims have to turn now and address those few creeps, those false guardians of the faith, with one simple declaration: You are not Muslims.
And in the Rockies, snowed in for weeks, she beat off (she says) a declaration of love from a trapper with one eye and "a massive brain".
"I suppose I exaggerate – but I'd plunge into the Seine – or lie on a railway line – rather than lose a letter," she gushes to her soon-to-be husband, John Middleton Murry, a declaration that has been amusingly juxtaposed with one of the iciest dismissals to a rival that I have ever read.
It may sound like a surprising declaration from one so strongly associated with Italian castles, marble columns and gilded detailing.
The sight of of a large black man with two seats and a disability prompted two passengers seated behind Barber to engage in what Barber told reporters was a loud conversation that included a declaration that one passenger "had problems with those people". Unable to turn around due to his fused spine, Barber stood to speak to the passengers.
But also following custom, the consultation was mostly a one-way declaration, with the bride's family setting the terms.
He made his goal completely public by posting shirtless pictures of himself on Facebook with a declaration that in one year, he will be an Iron Man.
With one exception, all of the women who had signed the Declaration of Sentiments were deceased by that time.
You cannot speak about preferring the likes of Jihadi John to be tried in court without prefacing that with a plain declaration that – whatever one's qualms about the execution of a British national – the world is a better place without him.
