Critics here say Taiwan's president, Chen Shuisbian, is edging toward independence, if not with a single defiant proclamation, then in small ways intended to widen the gulf between Taiwan's 23 million people and the mainland.
Finally, the old canard that the Emancipation Proclamation freed not a single slave, repeated by Bennett, could not be more wrong.
It is often said that the proclamation did not immediately free a single slave.
However, it is incorrect to say that the proclamation did not immediately free a single slave.
And because there is no clear proclamation from above -- the government, a national train company, a single dominant merchant, or anyone -- about how to standardize, the nascent mobile payments industry is one of the most convoluted I've ever seen.
ANNOUNCER: The President included gay families in his Mother's and Father's Day proclamation saying, "nurturing families come in many forms... a father and mother, a single father, two fathers......
The decision is no Emancipation Proclamation, but it has some of that document's transformational quality: there are few moments when a President, with a single act, can immediately uplift and legitimatize the lives of so many.
This week, he signed a proclamation authorising a presidential election in January.
And then, in a final twist, she produced Green's photograph with a soapy proclamation: "Beauty knows no age, no size, no color," she said, "and you deserve to be here with every single one of these girls".
A proclamation is an announcement made by or under the authority of the Crown.
