But the amount the company has paid for its stake tells us more about the likely worth of the UK's shale gas industry than any of the wild pronouncements yet.
The action affects a fairly small number of workers, but coupled with an accompanying statement by the authority's acting chairman, it amounts to one of the strongest public pronouncements yet by a housing authority official of the need to shore up its elevator division in the wake of a death of a 5-year-old boy in August in an elevator accident in a Brooklyn public housing project.
"This blessed plot, this earth, this realm …" And yet the pronouncement, "Pink is punk," which slipped so assuredly from Wintour's perfectly thin lips, is both vexing and revelatory.
Yet such pronouncements by a veteran power-broker point to a deep malaise in Nigeria's body politic.
And yet, even pronouncements like my own have exceptions, which brings me to Alta, just about the smartest small-plate restaurant I have seen in New York.
We don't have clear pronouncements of her positions yet, but she supported Obama.
Called the "Report on the Construction of Situations," Debord borrows heavily from Jean-Paul Sartre, Georg Lukács and Bertolt Brecht, yet his pronouncements still have considerable resonance today, particularly among European artists.
Or in the "Religio Medici," where Browne's tedious justification of his own Christianity is leavened with pronouncements like "I fear God, yet am not afraid of him" and (my favorite) "our ends are as obscure as our beginnings".
In his methodological pronouncements he has had not yet freed himself from those atomistic assumptions.
And yet his most controversial pronouncement was indeed about a specific issue: Iran's getting the bomb.
