AU Commissioner for Political Affairs Julia Dolly Joiner has experienced the frustration of seeing high-sounding declarations adopted and then forgotten.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

We've spent a couple of weeks now reading Milton's declarations of the importance of the shepherd's trade.

几周以来我们读到的弥尔顿,一直在高谈牧羊人的营生的重要性。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

We seek it; we have declarations-- national declarations, individual declarations of how important it is for us.

我们寻找它，我们有宣言-,国家宣言，关于快乐对我们多么重要的个人宣言。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

"My wish is that the declarations by President Obama inspires action to put an end to the hotspots in the Middle East,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.04

Declarations,commitments and speeches don't feed hungry people, He says the scale of the challenge is significant. There are more than one billion poor and hungry people in the world today.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

One of his first declarations was that no one in his ruling council would stand as a candidate in elections because the military had no wish to cling to power.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25