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Proclamation in sentence

33 examples of Proclamation in a sentence

So, in fact, our proclamation is going to parliament next month.
Epideictic, or demonstrative, rhetoric makes a proclamation about the present situation, as in wedding speeches.
In March, a proclamation forbid Japanese Americans from changing their residency, trapping them in military zones.
Only later would I see the dresses also as a proclamation: that in your dim kitchen, your laundry, your bleak concrete yard, what you revealed of yourself was a fabulation; your real sensual nature, veiled in those sexless vestments, was utterly your dominion.
What caught my attention was the proud proclamation advising all readers that the movie, although itself French, had been "Banned in France".
If anything, the proclamation of a systemic crisis poured fuel on the fire.
That proclamation by British Prime Minister David Cameron, following hard on the heels of similar renunciations of multiculturalism by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, suggests that a page is being turned in European society.
This was the official proclamation in 2000 of the European Commission in the so-called Lisbon Agenda.
Obama’s proclamation that the use of chemical weapons in Syria would cross a “red line” – and his implicit threat to use force if that line were crossed – reflects the commitment that the US has made during the past four decades to promote human rights worldwide.
Every time Bolivian President Evo Morales runs into political trouble at home, he issues an anti-Chilean proclamation.
His ultimate failure to follow through on his proclamation emboldened and, in a way, re-legitimized Assad.
Proclamation of the African Union may, sadly, form part of this tradition.
Just as European Central Bank President Mario Draghi’s declaration that “the ECB is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro” calmed financial markets, so would a proclamation by the EU that it will do everything necessary to support Ukraine’s recovery.
None of this was conceivable as recently as 1992, when Beijing's proclamation of "one country, two systems" - and the decision to peg the mainland's currency, the Renminbi, to the Hong Kong dollar - unleashed the floodgates of foreign investment.
Human Rights Require Stronger InstitutionsPARIS – Sixty years ago this week, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the first international proclamation of the inherent dignity and equal rights of all people.
China skeptics also cite Vice Premier Li Keqiang’s notorious 2007 proclamation that China’s GDP figures are “man-made” and “for reference only.”
Containing the Resource CrisisLONDON – The proclamation of a new Cold War, following Russia’s annexation of Crimea, turned out to be alarmist and premature.
This alleged Russian disruption of the Democratic presidential campaign fell into a gray area that could be interpreted as a propaganda response to Clinton’s 2010 proclamation of a “freedom agenda” for the Internet or retaliation for what Russian officials saw as her critical comments about Putin’s election in 2012.
This baseless pronouncement – more propaganda than reality – recalled Joseph Stalin’s 1935 proclamation that “Life has improved, comrades; life has become more joyous.”
In fact, her Davos proclamation reflects a consensus that has been emerging among European political leaders – most notably German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron – for a few years now.
Contrary to former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s famous proclamation, there is such a thing as society.
Predictably, this lofty proclamation has met with both elation and skepticism.
In the wake of the horrors in Christchurch, New Zealand, we must make the same proclamation: Today, we are all Muslims.
And having spoken about the proposed proclamation of Milan as King and of the immense results this might have, they returned to their respective carriages after the second bell had already sounded.
Napoleon at Saint-Helena! ...Pure charlatanism, a proclamation in favour of the King of Rome.
"Ods body!" said Don Quixote at this, "what more has his Majesty to do but to command, by public proclamation, all the knights-errant that are scattered over Spain to assemble on a fixed day in the capital, for even if no more than half a dozen come, there may be one among them who alone will suffice to destroy the entire might of the Turk.
Ricote and Sancho alone remained awake, for they had eaten more and drunk less, and Ricote drawing Sancho aside, they seated themselves at the foot of a beech, leaving the pilgrims buried in sweet sleep; and without once falling into his own Morisco tongue Ricote spoke as follows in pure Castilian:"Thou knowest well, neighbour and friend Sancho Panza, how the proclamation or edict his Majesty commanded to be issued against those of my nation filled us all with terror and dismay; me at least it did, insomuch that I think before the time granted us for quitting Spain was out, the full force of the penalty had already fallen upon me and upon my children.
'"Know you not, O stranger," was the reply, "of the recent proclamation of our gracious king?"'"Proclamation!
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The heralds finished their proclamation with their usual cry of"Largesse, largesse, gallant knights!"and gold and silver pieces were showered on them from the galleries, it being a high point of chivalry to exhibit liberality towards those whom the age accounted at once the secretaries and the historians of honour.