Yet when Blatter announced his retirement, I received 150 declarations of support - 100 official letters from federations and 50 promises.
Fifa head of media Delia Fischer told a news conference in Rio de Janeiro: "We have received a declaration that they are planning to appeal.
The consultations were set after United Nations officials formally received a declaration from France, Russia and Germany, seeking an immediate meeting of ministers to discuss the report by Hans Blix, chief inspector for chemical and biological weapons, on how the inspectors' work should proceed.
Young Robbie boldly and persistently declares himself to Jessica (he doesn't know that he's not even in uniform, much less out of his league), and Analeigh Tipton, a tall, slender stalk with huge pouty lips, receives his declarations so sweetly that the scenes don't humiliate the actors or us.
The Italian authorities received 130,000 voluntary declarations as a result of the scheme, amounting to a total of €59.5bn, it said.
Irish voters also received solemn written declarations that Lisbon did not affect Ireland's cherished military neutrality, nor its laws on abortion or taxation.A year on, opinion polls show a clear lead for the Yes camp.
"But as far as we can tell the payments he received and his declarations to tax authorities were all above board.
In a letter sent to Congress last week, Charles McCullough, the intelligence community's inspector general (IG), said he received two sworn declarations from the intelligence community who reviewed several dozen of Clinton's emails and determined that her communications contained information deemed to be "CONFIDENTIAL, SECRET, and TOP SECRET/SAP".
I rang the girl's mother to check she wouldn't mind her seven-year-old daughter receiving a declaration of undying love from another girl.
The article states that a couple entering marriage "will receive a declaration from each party that they want to take each other for husband and wife".
