But the ministers issued a carefully worded statement, which stopped short of making outright demands, in the hope of strengthening the hand of moderate elements in Hamas.
Three weeks ago one and a half million Catalans went on the streets, with outright demands for independence much higher in the mix than ever.
Finally, the old WASP elite was replaced in the class structure by a media, university, and intellectual meritocracy that either rejected Christianity outright or demanded that it accommodate the new post-1960s liberalism.
The outright abolition demanded by a section of its support has never been feasible – legally, morally, and because it would expose too many of its leaders to the charge of hypocrisy.
But for the moment he no longer seems to demand outright independence for the north.
Still, he said, Mr. Ballmer did not reject the demand outright.
But given that rich-world central banks could get printing and solve the problem of too-little demand outright, that criticism could be more usefully allocated elsewhere.
Intel, the leading maker of computer chips, now expects the only improvement in the third quarter to come from typical yearly buying patterns, rather than outright shifts in demand.
"We believe that this will be too little, too late, barring an outright collapse in demand, and now expect inventories to draw to critical levels this winter," the investment bank Goldman Sachs said in a research note.
Woodrow Wilson proclaimed his Fourteen Points—one of which demanded the reorganization of the Habsburg monarchy in accordance with the principles of national autonomy the Czechs demanded outright independence (January 6 , 1918.
