Taiwan's president-elect, Chen Shad-bian, had formerly supported declaring independence for the island -- a move that Beijing, which considers Taiwan a breakaway province, has said would be grounds for war.
This week the government finally announced that it and the CSA would go their separate ways, after a review by Sir David Henshaw, formerly of Liverpool City Council, declared that the agency could never be made to work properly.Many of the CSA's troubles can be put down to lousy management and design, which may be corrected when its successor is sketched out in a white paper in the autumn.
On 28 March Richard Harding, formerly inspector of custodial services, declared Western Australia a "state of imprisonment".
In one of the last letters he ever wrote to Dorothy Parker, inventor of the fountain pen that bears her name, the prince formerly known as Niccolo Machiavelli declared, "If all the papardelle in the world were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised".
The final straw for many came when Ms. Ward declared that the formerly neutral territory known as the border plots, which encircle the patchwork of individual gardens, would be divided up and given to anybody who wanted them, even associates, no waiting list necessary, so that the border could be maintained with the proper shrubbery and florals.
The company formerly known as Silicon Graphics declared Chapter 11 in 2009.
Formerly a state, Bahrain was declared a Kingdom in 2002.
PG&E suddenly faced liabilities of $30 billion and 750 lawsuits; investors freaked and the utility, formerly beloved by hedge funds, declared bankruptcy.
But Newton Minow, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (and formerly Adlai Stevenson's administrative assistant) declared television a "vast wasteland," thereby implicitly scolding viewers who enjoyed it.
