Even if the secretary of state does have discretion to disregard authorized manual recounts in some circumstances, her pre-emptive declaration that she will, in no event, accept manual recounts in this election, was an abuse of that discretion.
"Even if the secretary of state does have discretion to disregard authorized manual recounts in some circumstances," the 62-page brief concluded, "her pre-emptive declaration that she will, in no event, accept manual recounts in this election, was an abuse of that discretion".
The statement said that the Bush administration's naming of North Korea as part of an "axis of evil" and its stated policy of pre-emptive attacks amounted to a "declaration of war".
The Xerox battle began a few weeks later, when American Guarantee tried a pre-emptive strike by seeking a declaration in New York, a state generally protective of insurers, that it would not be liable for Xerox's spending on remedial costs, then or later.
In a statement issued at the United Nations and in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, North Korea said that the Bush administration's inclusion of it as part of an "axis of evil" and Washington's policy of pre-emptive attacks amounted to a "declaration of war" that threatened North Korea's existence.
"The Obama administration needs to have the same public moxie on the declaration of a pre-emptive state as it has had on Israeli settlements.
The other stumble, just before Romney's arrival in Israel, was Senor's bombs-away declaration endorsing a pre-emptive Israeli strike against Iran; the campaign later indicated that this statement had gotten "a little ahead" of Romney's intentions.
The rumours, says Mr Brin cheekily, "just happened to migrate from being false to being true".Chrome amounts to a declaration of war albeit a pre-emptive one, in Google's mind against Microsoft.
One hundred Christian ethicists signed a one-sentence declaration last month that opposed a pre-emptive war on Iraq.
Mr. Chairman, I want to touch briefly on preventive and pre-emptive action, which is one of the areas featured in the Experts' Declaration.
In a pre-emptive salvo against the protesters, about 2,000 scientists from around the world, including two Nobel laureates, signed a "Declaration in Support of Agricultural Biotechnology," said AgBioWorld.com, an advocacy group that released the declaration on Thursday.
