Sentence examples for a blanket declaration from inspiring English sources
"a blanket declaration" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when you want to describe a broad, sweeping statement or policy that applies to everyone. For example, "The president made a blanket declaration that all businesses must close due to the health crisis."
Some people do not reply because they receive too much mail, like Lawrence Lessig, a lawyer who in 2004 wiggled out of replying to e-mails by sending a blanket declaration of "e-mail bankruptcy" to the senders of all of the 200 messages he received daily.
In a review of the work in The New York Times Book Review, David Halberstam, the author of "The Making of a Quagmire" (McGraw-Hill, 1965), praised it but said he was made uneasy by its "blanket declaration that the second Indochina war is simply an indigenous rebellion against the repressions of Ngo Dinh Diem," South Vietnam's prime minister from 1954 to 1963.
Fraser faced questions at Senate estimates committee hearing in Canberra on Monday in light of Tony Abbott's blanket declaration that the government had "no plans whatsoever … to smash people's superannuation".
None of this is to make blanket declarations about Japanese culture, but it was an unmistakable fact of those early days that, even when supplies were slow to arrive, people waited.
The declaration when it came was false - a blanket denial of the programme, other than in a very tentative form.
Liotta, providing some rare insight into Guantanamo's operations, noted in his declaration that all "departing detainees" receive a "travel package" consisting of "a Koran in the detainee's language, a blanket, clothing, and several personal care items".
