Sentence examples for about to proclaim from inspiring English sources

The Mets were not about to proclaim themselves better than the Braves, not after taking four of six games from Atlanta early last season and then spending the rest of the season having difficulty beating anyone else.

(AP) THE REPUBLICANS INVOKING A SAINT -- The man for all seasons found his name being invoked this election season as Dick Cheney noted yesterday that Pope John Paul II was about to proclaim St. Thomas More the patron saint of statesmen and politicians.

For a city about to proclaim itself as animated, there is not much going on these days.

I was about to proclaim the disappearance of the Arabia of the imagination – at least in the form that had been luring Europeans for centuries.

Just as I was about to proclaim the disappearance of the Arabia of the imagination, there she was: the Queen of all medieval cities, the heir to the magical world of the "1001 Arabian Nights".

Disturbed by continuing rumors that they are headed for divorce, RICHARD GERE and CINDY CRAWFORD took out a full-page advertisement in The Times of London yesterday, costing about $30,000, to proclaim the stability of their marriage.

Ask 2 54 how they feel about commentators lining up to proclaim the death of guitar music and they simply don't care.

Appointed to his position in August, Mr. Thatcher, a former journalist, said he and other planners -- who included Charles Heatley, a British Provisional Authority spokesman, and officers with Special Forces and intelligence backgrounds -- set about drafting two plans to proclaim perhaps the most important news since the war in Iraq began.

Finally, end-of-the-worlders have seized upon the hubbub about the 2012 date to proclaim their belief that end times are drawing near.

His son Fortún (or Fortunio) was captured and imprisoned by the Moors in 860, and not until about 880 was he free to proclaim himself king of Pamplona.

They may be; but I also believe they are attempts to proclaim something about real events that burst through every conceivable intellectual and worldview paradigm.