The next three components were tied for third in terms of effectiveness; expression of regret, explanation of what went wrong, and declaration of repentance.
If we are wrong the Declaration of Independence is wrong.
They are, in order of importance, an acknowledgement of responsibility; an offer of repair; an expression of regret; an explanation of what went wrong; a declaration of repentance and a request for forgiveness.
As Balfour admitted in a secret memorandum in August, 1919, "So far as Palestine is concerned, the powers have made no statement of fact that is not admittedly wrong, and no declaration of policy which, at least in the letter, they have not always intended to violate".
In addition, a wrong shot change declaration in the recaptured video does not have an enormous effect on the result of the proposed method because every shot in the recaptured video is assumed to be recorded by an identical digital camcorder.
But this declaration is wrong.
Moreno-Ocampo took more than three years to work out what was wrong with the 2009 declaration.
Later, she bears a letter from Robbie to Cecilia: a note of apology, except that Robbie, fool that he is, writes two notes and by mistake sends the wrong one — an obscene declaration of desire, which Briony promptly reads.
Using the abbreviation of the North's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the Foreign Ministry said, "As far as the nuclear declaration on which wrong opinion is being built up by some quarters is concerned, the D.P.R.K. has done what it should do".
Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter and Secretary of State John Kerry also expressed concern that new moves by Russia and China, from the Baltic to the South China Sea, made it the wrong time to issue the declaration, according to senior aides in the Defense and State Departments.
