Sentence examples for more or less declared from inspiring English sources

Conservatives more or less declared war on their own government.

Washington State's governor, Jay Inslee, has more or less declared himself a single-issue presidential candidate.

After hearing him sing "Georgia on My Mind", few remembered that it had been written by Hoagy Carmichael; and after his renditions of "America the Beautiful", most famously at the tearful Republican convention that re-crowned Ronald Reagan in 1984, the anthem was more or less declared to be his property.He was seldom, however, an overtly political figure.

It was the HQ of younger comedians, generally university-educated and politically leftwing, who, under the banner of "alternative comedy", more or less declared war on an older generation of seaside pier and TV variety show comics, usually Tory-voting, such as Bernard Manning and Jimmy Tarbuck.

These trends have been magnified and publicized by the state's epic prison-heath care crisis which drew the ire of the U.S. Supreme Court in Brown v. Plata (PDF here) — which more or less declared California a less than civilized state engaged in torture — and resulted in an order to reduce prison populations by as many as 40,000 inmates from the level of 2009.

The Republican National Committee is operating as if Romney is the winner, and Gingrich's benefactor, Sheldon Adelson, more or less declared his man's bid over.

The manipulative high jinks more or less declare the show's thematic bankruptcy.

HISTORY is more or less bunk, declared Henry Ford in 1916.

As for literature, it was more or less over, he declared more than once, and he had reached a point where he no longer much cared.

More or less since Nietzsche declared God "dead" nearly 140 years ago, popular wisdom has held that science and religion are irreparably misaligned.

It would have therefore been no more or less speculative to declare that the patient had a "more severe presentation than would be expected" from the consumed iodine.