(Many countries within the European Union have also recognized Kosovo's independence, but Serbia, and its ally, Russia, maintain that the declaration of independence was illegal).
The progressive historian Staughton Lynd maintains that "the Declaration of Independence is the single most concentrated expression of the revolutionary intellectual tradition," and that pro-democracy activists ever since "have taken [it] as their point of departure and claimed to be the true heirs of the spirit of '76".
"I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure that it will cost to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States.
There were further speeches, and then Medroa invited the children to rise and swear an oath, pledging to maintain the rights of children as outlined in the Declaration of Independence, and to fulfill their duties as Congrezzmembers.
Moreover, governments maintain the option to use provisions of the Doha Declaration on TRIPS, as well as protections within the TRIPS agreement itself to maintain access to new priority vaccines [ 58].
The elected president can be expected to exert pressure to maintain the lion's share of the imperial powers granted to him by the old constitution and, implicitly, the constitutional declaration.
Donor confidentiality was maintained according to the Declaration of Helsinki, and the Severance Hospital IRB Committee (CR04124), Yonsei University approved the protocol.
However, some Russian historians who are not advocates of the Communist era maintain that the Hungarian declaration of neutrality caused the Kremlin to intervene a second time.
The African Union — which is basically pledged to maintaining the crazy-quilt borders left by European imperialists — called the Tuaregs' online declaration "null and of no value whatsoever".
The Bush administration's declaration that it will not reauthorize the taxes will substantially shift the costs of maintaining the Superfund trust fund to taxpayers.
