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Clarion in sentence

20 examples of Clarion in a sentence

Could we really be the great generation that Mandela asked us to be? Might we answer that clarion call with science, with reason, with facts, and, dare I say it, emotions?
In many ways, "I exist" became the clarion call for StoryCorps, this crazy idea that I had a dozen years ago.
As somebody who's spent the last two decades advocating a shift away from industrial meat production, I wanted to believe that this clarion call was going to make a difference.
The click is the modern triumphal clarion proceeding us through life, announcing our entry into every lightless room.
Like the Mona Lisa in the Louvre, the French Revolution’s clarion call for universal rights can be admired only from behind bullet-proof glass, and it is definitely too precious to be exported.
The Obama administration’s pivot towards Asia signals recognition of the region’s great potential, not a clarion call for containment.
For all the apparent freshness of Medvedev’s recent pronouncements, including his now famous article “Go Russia!” – which sounded a clarion call for modernization and liberalism – he is borrowing massively from Putin’s vocabulary of 2000.
Even the constitutional treaty, which should have been a clarion call for all Europeans, was allowed to become bogged down in minutia.
September 11 th - by which I mean not just the World Trade Center massacre, but the skein of hateful, reactionary worldviews and organizations it revealed with unmistakable force - is a clarion call.
“Enrich yourselves” is the clarion call of our era; and in that moral blind spot lies a great danger.
The Cost of Overhyping GlobalizationBRUSSELS – As the world’s financial elite converges on Washington, DC, for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, they cannot escape yet another clarion call to reverse the retreat of globalization.
Moreover, unlike the depletion of the ozone layer, the melting of the Arctic ice cap has not served as a clarion call for more ambitious climate action.
Africa’s COVID-19 Budget CrunchPRETORIA – As COVID-19 crisscrosses Africa, and policymakers are implementing emergency responses, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has issued a clarion call to African governments: “In other countries,” he said in March, “we have seen how the virus actually accelerates after a certain tipping point, so the best advice for Africa is to prepare for the worst and prepare today.”
On one hand, the overwhelming scientific evidence of global warming is a clarion call to action.
Empowering the African UnionKIGALI – When the Organization of African Unity (OAU) was founded in 1963, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, the bloc’s first president, issued a clarion call: “What we require is a single African organization through which Africa’s single voice may be heard, within which Africa’s problems may be studied and resolved.
Marshall’s clarion call at the launch of the Plan in 1947 was for “the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist.”
"Nay, nay," said Don Quixote at this; "on that point of the bells Master Pedro is very inaccurate, for bells are not in use among the Moors; only kettledrums, and a kind of small trumpet somewhat like our clarion; to ring bells this way in Sansuena is unquestionably a great absurdity."
CHAPTER XIIThe heralds left their pricking up and down,Now ringen trumpets loud and clarion.
CHAPTER XIVIn rough magnificence array'd,When ancient Chivalry display'dThe pomp of her heroic games,And crested chiefs and tissued damesAssembled, at the clarion's call,In some proud castle's high arch'd hall.
All at once he raised his head, his hollow eye appeared full of light, and his voice burst forth like a clarion:"Down with them, Tristan!