With protesters filling the streets of Tehran to denounce the declared outcome of the election, administration officials said they were wary of doing anything that would allow the declared victor, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to portray the protests as American-led.
In his speech on Scottish independence, David Cameron declared: "The outcome is still up in the air".
The International Olympic Committee did something rare yesterday: it declared the outcome of a competition wrong and righted it.
On Monday the BOA chairman, Lord Moynihan, declared the outcome of the court of arbitration for sport's (Cas) ruling as "a hollow victory for Wada" and said he would continue to push for "fundamental and far-reaching reform" of the anti-doping agency.
The picture painted appeared very bleak, as a stream of reports, editorials and op-eds by opposition figures warned of a "return to autocracy and despotism" and declared the outcome as a threat to the "survival of democracy" in the country.
Trump's reluctance to accept possible defeat echoes his months-long effort to in effect declare the outcome of the election invalid well before the first votes were cast.
So there was enormous interest in the outcomes, declared on May 11th, of the elections for four state assemblies (Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal) and one small "union territory" (Pondicherry).
"Many in Washington have spent the last weeks declaring the outcome of this race to be preordained, and the primary process a mere formality," Mr. Plouffe said in a statement.
And with only nine months to go before the Treasury declares the outcome of its "five tests", it must have reasoned that the "No" campaign has dominated the argument for too long.
Then on Thursday evening, the head of the country's constitutional council — a close ally and appointee of Mr. Gbagbo who must sign off on the voting results — said the electoral commission was "not capable" of declaring the outcome because it had missed its Wednesday deadline.
The strongest effects are observed for subjective, self-declared outcomes such as health or job satisfaction.
