It was treated as a major pronouncement and was issued by the official press agency Tass.

It was not exactly a major doctrinal pronouncement, but then, God's hand is in the details, they say.

In any case, he felt he ought to stop making too many major pronouncements of this kind.

So far, to be honest, his major pronouncement, "I feel good," doesn't quite have the terse eloquence of Mr. Gagarin's "Poyekhali," "Let's go."

The Pope and the Vatican have carefully refrained from ruling out ordination of women to the diaconate, even in major pronouncements against ordaining women to the priesthood.

"The argument is simple," Mr. Blair told an audience in Birmingham in a speech that his spokesman had highlighted in advance as a major pronouncement.

It was billed as a major pronouncement on currency policy from the freshly reelected Labor government.

A Woods Hole spokeswoman said he has not made any major pronouncements against the Valdez spill.

Levitt's conclusion, immediately disputed by the N.H.L. Players Association, was the second major pronouncement from the league in the week after its All-Star Game.

From Grover, it seemed a major pronouncement.