With all that preamble noted – and with a further declaration to readers that I'm currently about three quarters through My Story, not quite to the conclusion – Julia Gillard's memoir provides real, detailed, forensic, and clinical insight into the government from her central, completely unique, vantage point.
"There is no legal requirement for a further declaration in order for an investigation to be initiated," the lawyers insisted in their letter, which was sent to Bensouda on Sunday.
But along with the criteria was a further declaration: that "the union's capacity to absorb new members...is also an important consideration in the general interest of both the union and the candidate countries".The distinction between a formal "criterion" and a mere "consideration" sounds abstruse and semantic, but in practice it has been vital to the EU's recent expansion.
"This is both a promise to an end to the war on terror, while being a further declaration of war, constrained and proportional in its scope," said Juan Carlos Zarate, a counterterrorism adviser to Mr. Bush.
He cheered up a bit at this further declaration of shortcoming.
His new album, "FREEMAN," is a further declaration of his liberation, full of original material that ranges from the intensely personal ("Covert Discretion," a bleak but ultimately hopeful recounting of the life of a touring musician) to the blackly comic ("Golden Monkey," which seems to come from an older and wiser Ween).
Then Mr. Bodman, a jobholder in the tradition of the "best and brightest" appointees of the Bush administration ("good job Brownie") made a further declaration.
A further declaration provides no added value and only means more bureaucracy.
Further, it may serve as a declaration to the world that Muslims all over the world is against Da'esh and their ideology and therefore one shall not easily attribute the acts of Da'esh to the Islamic faith.
The foreign affairs minister, Julie Bishop, said the listing sent a strong message to Australians who sought to participate in the Syrian conflict and she was considering making further declarations.
"You hit him with a few punches and he go down and quit, and you want to be glorified for that?" Although Mayweather makes some valid arguments, he might want to wait until after his May 2 fight against Manny Pacquiao before making further declarations about his place among boxing's hierarchy.
