Sentence examples similar to a certain proclamation from inspiring English sources

The Emancipation Proclamation was born of a certain opportunism (to win the war, Lincoln said, he needed freed slaves to defeat their former masters), and is not a lesser thing for it.

Thus, his proclamations of "never again" have a certain hollow ring.

If "moral leader" means someone who thoughts and proclamations on morality should be followed – not necessarily slavishly, but with a certain amount of deference – then none exists.

So egregious are many of its reports that the government maintains a certain degree of distance: No one in the regime wants to stand by its proclamations.

The Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation is called "preliminary" because it was framed as a warning to rebels, a threat to take action by a certain date if they refused to lay down their arms.

A certain attire.

By a certain light.

A certain unburdening.

Have a certain personality.

It contained a bolder proclamation.

But a recent proclamation made me pause.