The judge noted that Ohio law does not allow a declaration of death to be reversed after three years or more have passed.
The extra concession that they had won from Mitch McConnell, in a weekend of haggling, was the Republican leader's declaration of his "intention" to allow a debate and a vote next month on the permanent status of the Dreamers, the hundreds of thousands of undocumented Americans brought here as children.
Tim Ambrose and Rikki Clarke raised the pace expertly to allow the declaration before stumps.
One choice is for the global community to allow the Doha Declaration to become a pawn in the high politics of trade policy, trampled by the spread of TRIPS-plus measures designed to push access to medicines by the poor even further out of reach.
It would be better to channel energies towards persuading North Korea to re-engage with the six-party process meant to get it to scrap its nuclear programmes and to bring about peace on the divided Korean peninsula (the talks have been stalled since the autumn, when North Korea refused to allow its nuclear declaration to be properly verified).
On 29 June, Croatia and Slovenia agreed to suspend their declarations of independence to allow time for a negotiated settlement.
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Last December, East Chicago Mayor Anthony Copeland wrote a letter pleading with then-Indiana Gov. Mike Pence to grant his city, which is facing a lead contamination crisis, an emergency declaration to allow it to address the problem.
We could have mobilized larger pockets of safe zones in Idlib - not no-fly-zones, as we did in Libya and constitute a declaration of war - to allow for more humanitarian corridors and safe passage for displaced Syrians.
When 13 heads of government met for the Global Tiger Initiative in St Petersburg in November 2010, the then Chinese premier, Wen Jiabao, called for an end to the tiger trade, yet his delegates joined with those from Thailand, Vietnam and Laos to ensure that the meeting's final declaration was worded to allow their farms to continue trading.
