Their soft-focus declaration of love quickly gave way to grimy reality: a sleazy dude humiliating his girlfriend by dumping her in the most public way possible.
Those conferences were effective in setting an international agenda for regional and national environmental policy making that resulted in treaties and protocols, also known as "hard law," and in nonbinding resolutions, statements, and declarations, or "soft law".
They also include "soft law" resolutions and declarations, such as the General Assembly's United Nations Millennium Declaration [ 42], which, although intended to create a good faith obligation on member states to work towards the MDGs, remains a recommendation with normative effect only [ 43].
Hofer is a "a kind, nice, protest politician who wraps the FPOe's [Freedom party's] brutal declarations against refugees in soft language".
Labour's amendment calls on the government to allow parliament "to consider and vote on options to prevent the UK leaving the EU without a ratified withdrawal agreement and political declaration" – including Labour's softer Brexit, and a "public vote".
Other "soft law" instruments, such as explicitly nonbinding agreements, political declarations, and U.N. declarations, are fallback options which merit consideration for implementing a portfolio approach.
With so few miles on the clock, and having been left in the Gold Cup itself until the final declaration stage in the hope of softer ground at Cheltenham, he can be opposed only with reluctance.
Dvorak's "Carnival" Overture served as a declaration of intent: fine gradations of loud to soft, beautifully managed transitions and controlled bursts of energy.
It is also a huge source of U.S. strength and appeal -- the soft power that comes from technologies, universities, Disney Worlds, movies and a Declaration of Independence built on the assumption that the future can bury the past.
He can turn a sigh into a declaration of love, but he can't turn minor soft-core shocks into poetry.
He hadn't exactly said he'd vote for him, but few people who are soft on Paul, I've found, are inclined to make such declarations, at least not in person, to one's face.
