Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are having trouble agreeing on even a short declaration about the shape of a final peace.
In Celebes and the Moluccas, where the Dutch had long exercised a general authority, a new instrument the Short Declaration (in contrast to the earlier Long Contract)—bound local rulers to accept the control of Batavia.
While there weren't many details in the short declaration, Obama cited New York's P-Tech high-school as a model.
The best clue to what's so bad about them is in the word "outcry" (Hebrew ze'aqah), which God uses twice in this short declaration.
But at the risk of being reductionist, or of coming off desperate for some vague excuse to call off the rest of the day, I'll hazard the guess that the Web, for all its promise and pitfalls, would be a much different place if it weren't for a short declaration from CERN's then directors nearly two decades ago today.
In the lobbies and tearooms these campaigning MPs seek their colleagues' support for such private members' bills, Early Day Motions (short written declarations) and backbench debates.Other parliamentarians are busy agitating within their parties.
If you're absolutely sure you want to become a Muslim and fully submit to the will of God, all you need to do is recite the Shahada, a short oral declaration of faith.
The hedged declaration stopped short of declaring that Bush was either an active candidate or was exploring a run, but rather suggested the possibility of one.
Line-by-line haggling will start in January, with the aim of producing a much shorter final declaration with some hope of winning consensus.When Canada left in January, it said it would not be "party to an anti-Semitic, anti-Western hatefest dressed up as an anti-racism conference".
But to many small growers and their allies, it is nothing short of a declaration of war, a vivid example of the worst fears of globalization.
