Citizens have waited anxiously every Monday morning for weeks for the next pronouncement – whether on immigration, free speech or, now, healthcare – to be handed down from the highest court.
Every word is a pronouncement, whether it's about his high-achieving daughter, what makes America American (driving to the movies), or the greatest works of American literature ("Moby-Dick," "Huckleberry Finn" and anything by Faulkner).
His brash public pronouncements -- whether vilifying a rival like Microsoft or declaring that Silicon Valley is finally growing old -- tend to be taken with a handful of salt.
The last few popes have spoken of the shroud with awe and encouraged people to contemplate it, but the Vatican has in recent years avoided any pronouncement on whether the cloth really is the one that covered Jesus.
A final pronouncement on whether to proceed with the project is likely in 2014.
Daniele Archibugi argues: "Its pronouncements could decide whether you can get a job, refinance a mortgage, get a loan if you are a small company and, in the poorer parts of the world, even put your kids to bed with a full stomach".
Whether Brito's recent pronouncements of loyalty represent the majority thinking of the officer corps only time will tell.
It may be asked whether metaphysical pronouncements are empirical or a priori and, if the latter, whether they are analytic or synthetic.
Participants described the decision of whether to follow the religious pronouncements in the context of individual choice.
The refrain of 'it depends on the individual' as to whether to follow religious leaders' pronouncements on smoking was somewhat unexpected as Indonesian culture is collectivist and Islamic culture is both collectivist and proscriptive.
We can't keep falling for companies' self-serving pronouncements over the true, sentimental values of Christmas, whether it's sharing, family or penguins.
