The companies received unfavorable press attention, ranging from questions about their business practices to outright declarations that they were scams.

The Niger Delta Volunteer Force (NDVF) leaders described this as an "outright declaration of war on the Ijaws".

Being struck by lightning is a symbol for being killed, if not an outright declaration of the manner of your death.

The post would last from the declaration of sovereignty from the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic on August 25, 1990 until the outright declaration of independence on July 23, 1992.

As in the Le Havre image, Mr. Westerbeke prefers inference to outright declaration, employing his camera as a sage would use a parable.

And what they bring back will, they hope, be turned into a compelling legal argument to support either an outright declaration of victory for the losers or at least a shot at another election.

Modred's setting the priests on him was such an outright declaration of battle that Merlin knew he must not allow it to pass.

President Gorbachev, troubled for the last three months by Lithuania's outright declaration of independence, has already promised a more decentralized federation to republics restless for power after seven decades of Communist rule.

Not since the attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II has the United States declared war, and few lawmakers favored an outright declaration now.

Some UNO leaders said they were discussing whether to make an outright declaration of opposition to the Chamorro Government.