That phrase and its variation "I know" recur more than 100 times in "Finn" (one begins to flinch in anticipation), along with many other declarations of knowing and not knowing, and knowing everything, and knowing nothing, and reckoning and ever so many phrases like that — enough to give a body the fantods.
This and other declarations from Reith are in effect the BBC's Magna Carta.
This document builds on other declarations of human rights that have occurred in the past including our own Declaration of Independence's statement of the right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness".
Similarly, local element declarations may have a name but are encapsulated within the scope of other declarations, and therefore are not exposed for reference.
Historian David Armitage, after examining the influence of the American "Declaration" on over 100 other declarations of independence, says: The American Revolution was the first outbreak of the contagion of sovereignty that has swept the world in the centuries since 1776.
There are no other declarations of interest.
In other words, the Declaration of Independence was a highly idealistic document that stressed absolute freedom from control whereas the Constitution was a document that imposed an intelligent framework of control to give our newly created union a sense of cohesive direction.
So why, in other eyes, was the Vatican declaration something like a theological equivalent of Ariel Sharon's striding into the area of Al Aksa Mosque?
At the weekend the Foreign Minister of a major European power stressed at a gathering that Iran will play a part in the Syria talks, if not in the basis of the Geneva I declaration then in other ways.
In other words, given a proper declaration, a thing X counts as some Y in a specific context C, so that Y is X's status function in this context C. A status function is a function that is imposed on an object or a group of objects.
