Gates offers no insurance, and by 2015, "small schools" is a term surely not mentioned in its annual proclamation of the educational wonder that is the Gates educational funding hobby.
And yet, even as President Obama gets ready to make his annual proclamation marking the beginning of National Adoption Month in just a couple of weeks, racism continues to scar the lives of many of our nation's 400,000 children who languish in foster care because of their race.
Since 2009, Obama has issued annual proclamations designating the last Sunday in September as gold star mothers and families day.
His first annual Thanksgiving Proclamation, in 1931, has been celebrated for conveying insights about worship, friendship, the beauty of nature, and gratitude for blessings received, all in one sentence.
In August of 1931, the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism, Inc., sent Hoover an open letter asking him to forgo his annual religious Thanksgiving proclamation.
When President Barack Obama acknowledged this annual event, his proclamation underscored the reality that alcohol and other drugs threaten the future of millions of Americans.
My older sister, several of my younger siblings, a cousin and I had attended the annual Elmore County Emancipation Proclamation Celebration (the observance of Abraham Lincoln's signing the proclamation freeing Blacks from slavery).
Indeed, one head of digital strategy at a major label reportedly prefaced his company's annual meeting with the proclamation that "the profit from vinyl sales wouldn't even pay for our lunch today", presumably before helping himself to another slice of dolphin cooked in orphan's tears.
It has become an annual Christmas Eve tradition: official proclamations for men and women who previously served time for mostly nonviolent crimes.
So Afghans were already bracing for a bloody spring, after the Taliban proclamation of their annual offensive, which marks the unofficial start of "fighting season".
In 1996, the Governor-General, Sir William Deane, issued a proclamation recognising the annual commemoration of Australian National Flag Day, to be held on 3 September.
