In a lengthy public statement, the Youth Symphony's executive director declared that "given the lack of transparency and lack of parental consent to engage with this music we could not continue to feature his work on the program".
And then he declares that given the choice "between winning the Tour de France and cancer, I would choose cancer".
Estrin, who refers to Gregor as a "5-foot-6-inch cockroach," has either opted not to read or (more likely) chosen to ignore Vladimir Nabokov's Cornell lecture on "The Metamorphosis," in which the novelist-naturalist declared that, given Kafka's description, Samsa could not be a cockroach but rather was a beetle, and only three feet long at that.
In a groundbreaking move that has already prompted a fierce backlash from psychiatrists, the British Psychological Society's division of clinical psychology (DCP) will on Monday issue a statement declaring that, given the lack of evidence, it is time for a "paradigm shift" in how the issues of mental health are understood.
This is the source of the skeptical (or perhaps "Socratic") tone clearly evident in his final lecture courses, where Pomponazzi often declares that, given the lack of certainties, he will teach his students to doubt, since doubting is already knowing (see Graiff 1979; Perfetti 1999a, b, 2000, 2004).
The Ranger veterans wrote General Shinseki in protest, declaring that "giving soldiers a symbol which has served as a mark of distinction for others to aspire to will merely cheapen the symbol".
But the answer is clear: I would have made a statement declaring that giving in to this kind of blackmail would constitute a violation of my oath of office, and that my lawyers, on careful reflection, have determined that there are several legal options that allow me to ignore this extortionate demand.
In [1], Lin declared that giving a precise calculation formula for ((sum_{k=n}^{infty}frac{1}{k^{s}} )^{-1}) with (s=4) is a very complicated problem.
He also dropped the requirement of tithing, declaring that giving as taught in the New Testament was voluntary.
Taylor and Fink [ 10] declared that giving melancholia a separate category (psychomotor disturbance being an essential criterion) "will increase its recognition and encourage the use of the most appropriate treatments".
