In their public pronouncements, both Mr Kerry and Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj sounded confident about improving ties in the near future.
It was a pronouncement disputed both by Jabhat, and Al-Qaida Central's leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, who ruled against Baghdadi.
It's a great buzzing hive of commentary out there, so nobody can read everything that someone says; but if a famous intellectual makes a pronouncement, he both should and does get a listen much more easily than someone without the preexisting reputation.
But to many Russians, these pronouncements seemed both short-sighted and outdated.
But now anti-American sentiment is being stoked by an outpouring of dubious pronouncements from both state and private news media.
Saudi authorities in 1994 stripped Osama bin Laden of his nationality after he issued fatwas, or Islamic religious pronouncements, denouncing both the royal family and the US.
Tonight's service and the dispute about the White House delegate, was part of the stealth campaign that has developed since the plane crash on Friday -- despite public pronouncements by both sides against politicking.
People close to the competition department said they would prefer not to have a French or German commissioner, given pronouncements from both those countries on bending Europe's budget rules and creating national champions.
But the group has proved resilient and continues to operate on Basilan Island despite pronouncements by both the United States and the Philippines that the campaign had flushed the group from the island and from Sulu, the adjacent province and another Abu Sayyaf base.
His pronouncements are both serious and self-parodying, often lascivious ("A dinner which ends without cheese is like a beautiful woman with only one eye") and, in this volume, amplified by the playful, wise commentary of MFK Fisher, who translated the text in 1949.
