This group has not yet met to declare whether the recession is over, but I think when they do meet, and if they do declare that I mean, when they do meet, the only declaration that would be surprising is that they didn't declare the recession over.
What kind of a message is that to the nation, that the only declaration of legacy people will see most days, the only open declaration many of us will ever notice, includes no women?
Angela Merkel's declaration that refugees are fundamentally deserving of protection – hers was the only declaration of its kind in Europe – has two main sticking points in her own country.
On the three-year-old building itself, which looks more like a warehouse than a cathedral, a large cross over the rear entrance is the only declaration of purpose.
Under U.S. law, however, only declaration of a "military coup" stops aid to a foreign government.
A fair answer must consider this: is it better to make an unprincipled declaration to be able to make positive principled change -- or better to make only principled declarations and thereby be excluded from being able to make that principled change?
So far Mr Romney has countered only with declarations of innocence.
"We are ready to negotiate and to talk about these issues and not only make declarations," Siim Kallas, the European commissioner for transportation, said during a news conference.
The report also pointed out only 37 "declarations of suspicion" on potentially illegal transactions were filed in 1998, far less than in any other European tax haven, and despite more than $44 billion on deposit.
In deference to parliamentary sovereignty, they cannot strike down Acts of Parliament, but can only give declarations of incompatibility, leaving it to ministers and parliament to decide what to do.
