President Clinton today outlined a military goal in dealing with Iraq so modest that he will have little trouble declaring it achieved, even if it fails to deal with the larger threat posed by Saddam Hussein.
It declared it had achieved the strategic goal of the conflict – but some were sceptical.
He also declared China had achieved its goal of setting up a "socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics".
Celera was set to declare victory in achieving an effectively complete genome assembly many months before the consortium could do so.
In February, when Persimmon announced the higher payout target of 900p a share, it had declared it had achieved an "outstanding performance" with a 34% rise in profits (before a goodwill impairment) to £638m.
Eliminating tribunal fees for employment status hearings, but keeping the fees for workers who want to assert any of the rights associated with their newly declared status, will achieve little.
"We see the events of recent days as a serious violation of agreements on a cease-fire and declared intentions to achieve a regulation [of the conflict] through political means," Russia's foreign ministry said in a statement at the weekend.
The team at Microsoft recently declared they had achieved "human parity" with the technology – it was now as good at interpreting human speech as humans are.
In February 1973, Terry Atkinson of the Los Angeles Times, reviewing the debut album by a hard rock band, Aerosmith, declared that it "achieves all that punk-rock bands strive for but most miss".
They added that the company has declared the aim of achieving a "net positive impact on biodiversity" and further justify their choice of name because decisions made by Lafarge "will determine the future existence of this snail".
