Or perhaps it was just a "a declaration of impunity", says Jessica Lewis, a former American intelligence officer in Iraq who works at the Institute for the Study of War in Washington, DC.IS members who appear on social media view the prospect of more intense American action with a mixture of glee and fear.
The bronze edition of Flag is not just a money-making gimmick, but a declaration of faith in the new America of the 1960s.
Arriving just after the final deadline for this year's Ucas submissions, a report for the Sutton Trust, written by Dr Steven Jones of Manchester University, may well cause consternation among candidates who have just put, for example, a declaration of commitment, carefully stripped of cliches, before proof of intellectual curiosity.
Parenting is a terrifying prospect if we allow ourselves to consider human fragility, and my son is a declaration of just how fragile — and just how resilient — humans are.
The problem? Being a humanist isn't just a declaration that you're in favor of all people everywhere having the same rights.
The more so, as the Convention on the Rights of the Child is not just a mere declaration of internationally accepted norms and standards, but rather a valid instrument for promotion of positive social changes," said Ludmila Isakova, Rector of the Institute.
But saying that such a system would raise energy prices was just a factual statement, not a declaration of intent to punish American consumers.
If Sicha is one of the most esteemed documentarians of the Internet's eternal present, his first book, "Very Recent History: An Entirely Factual Account of a Year (c. AD 2009) in a Large City," is his treatise on time, a declaration of just how quickly the present can seem like the past.
"It is just more of the same, a declaration of institutional racism followed by extreme plans for re-education and multiculturalism," he wrote.
