declination

Eric Holder, who served as attorney general under President Obama, posted on X: “Had his name been Joe Smith the resolution would have been — fundamentally and more fairly — a declination” on filing criminal charges.

He could have simply said he declined to prosecute and left it at that but what he did was nothing less than a partisan hit job masquerading as a prosecutorial declination.

“We will say, and our declination letter does say, that the decision of the deputy to jump into the vehicle at that point was unusual,” he said.

Previous experimental studies over several decades provide strong evidence that birds, sea turtles and other organisms key into small changes in magnetic inclination, intensity and declination when making orientation decisions and developing navigational maps.

Before taking a bearing, a compass needs to be adjusted for declination.