The phrase "nice declaration" is correct and usable in written English.
You might use it to express approval of a statement someone has made, such as in the following sentence: "I'm proud to declare that our company has achieved 100% employee satisfaction - nice declaration!".
He will argue that the EC's Nice Declaration on sport should be given legal force rather than its current ineffectual advisory status.
"If football will agree to be more responsible in this range of areas," Caborn told me, "I will aim to secure political support for football to be allowed special exemptions from EU law along the lines of the Nice Declaration".
"If we sign the treaty, there may be more progress in other areas; if we don't sign, we will have a repetition of the old story – a nice declaration but no practical achievements".
Unlike other businesses, clubs need their rivals to be reasonably healthy, or else the whole football product becomes diminished.' In 2000, sport got a measure of protection from the EU in the form of the Nice Declaration, a statement from all the member countries recognising sport's many benefits and that it is a business second, not first.
Firstly, whereas Nice declaration No 23 had included in the agenda a point entitled 'The role of national parliaments in the architecture of Europe', the Laeken Council has watered down that idea under a much vaguer title: 'More democracy, transparency and efficiency in the European Union'.
That is a bold hope: "We love you and we want you to stay," as Ontario's Mike Harris summed up the declaration, is nice to hear, but not convincing.Wherever it leads, the initiative is at least a change from a summer of threats and doom-and-gloom predictions of Quebec's fate if ever it goes its own way.
England finished a sun-drenched day 311 runs ahead and the next decision awaiting their captain is a nice one, the timing of his declaration on the final morning of a batsman-friendly Test match.
His declaration amounts to a nice photo op and a golden opportunity to cast his lot with the PC pioneer now that it is thriving.
He says a deal between the Irish government and the EU will contain declarations with lots of "nice words" that wouldn't actually change "one single paragraph" in the controversial treaty text.Not so, says the foreign minister, Micheal Martin.
One thinks, of course, of Warren Clarke in the 1989 adaptation of David Lodge's Nice Work, and in particular his unforgettable romantic declaration to Haydn Gwynne: "I lov yow".
"It was very nice of SA to opt for a sporting declaration at stumps yesterday, but now I can't seem to find coverage of the English second innings.
