While embracing the administration's desire that Iraq make an up-front declaration of the weapons it possesses, Mr. Blix made no mention of other more controversial proposals the administration has sought, including armed escorts for inspectors, the right of the permanent members of the Security Council to send their own inspectors with him and nominate their own targets for inspection.
The very first production by the National Theatre of Scotland took place in 10 venues simultaneously, among them a ferry boat, a block of flats and a shop front: a declaration of intent for an organisation determined to question not just what "theatre" means, but what "national" and "Scotland" could mean, too.
The Red Summer of 1919 caused one Omaha newspaper to run a front page declaration that 21 Omaha women reported that they were assaulted from early June to late September 1919.
On the tax front, a formal declaration that Mr. Madoff's investment funds are bankrupt would help investors.
But the defining moment of the final phase of the campaign came six days later when Gordon Brown persuaded the Daily Record to emblazon across its front page a declaration by the leaders of the three main UK parties that they would start the process of delivering "extensive new powers" to the Scottish parliament.
As the newly elected mayor of London his declaration is front page news.
Inside the front cover, beneath the declaration "This book is especially for," was a line on which to write my name.
The premier, 74, made "a brief, spontaneous declaration" in front of the judge at the closed hearing, his lawyer Niccolò Ghedini told journalists.
I can imagine now how embarrassed my mother would have been, cringing and laughing to cover up her cringing, if he'd made this declaration in front of her theatre friends.
By September 13, the Washington Post was running the story of Flight 93 on the front page, with this declaration: "Some are already describing as heroes the passengers who may have tried to thwart the hijackers' plans".
"She gave us a dying declaration in front of the health officials that she was set on fire by two persons close to the accused when she was alone at home on 23 December," local policeman Nimbala Santosh Uttamrao told the agency.
