"declares itself as" is a valid phrase in written English.
It is used when someone or something confidently identifies or presents itself in a certain way. For example, "The movie declares itself as a romantic comedy filled with heartfelt moments."
The first-person point of view is exchanged for third-person, and the tone declares itself as the tone of the amused insider.
Danced with cool long-legged emphasis by Mr. Forster, dressed in black against a white screen, "Break" still declares itself as a 1960's manifesto against mainstream modern-dance esthetics.
From its first virtuosic, almost page-long sentence, The End declares itself as a work that requires attention, the heft of the subject matter matched by the ornamented tooling of the prose.
In that case, the node declares itself as cluster head and forms cluster with its 1-hop neighbors.
In step 2, the RP identifies itself using a public key certificate (e.g., a certificate used for SSL/TLS) and declares itself as a CardSpace-enabled RP using XHTML code or HTML object tags.
If Eq. 4 returns true for any node (S_{i} in mathcal {N}), it declares itself as a CH, fixes its working communication sector accordingly, and starts forming a cluster.
If the commission declares itself at an impasse, as it did in 1981 and 1991, the state's chief justice, Deborah T. Poritz, will name the 11th member.
In Silesia a significant segment of the population tends to declare itself as Silesian or German according to political circumstances.
North Korea declared itself as an independent state on Sept. 9, 1948, three years after the liberation of the Korean Peninsula from Japanese colonial rule.
"People will increasingly see that it is unsafe to be in a country which still wants to declare itself as a tax haven," the prime minister said.
By the time of Bates senior's stroke, which coincides with a filial trip to Poland (including a visit to Auschwitz), the metamorphosis is complete, and a modest little comedy of modern manners has declared itself as an elemental tale of last orders, final reckonings and even, given Fred's Catholicism, the nature of faith.
