Sentence examples for as a proclamation from inspiring English sources

The speech was widely applauded as a proclamation of British grievances.

As a proclamation of alertness to dozy morning arrivals, the track is hard to beat.

A remarkable self-portrait, drawn when he was 13, could almost be interpreted as a proclamation of his genius.

For as soon as a proclamation was made of a pardon, the greater part openly deserted him.

Wassailing – the ritual involving the sharing of warm, spiced ale – began as a proclamation to apple trees to encourage them to bear more fruit, and evolved into something families would do on Christmas Eve, new year or Twelfth Night.

DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Wednesday dallassymphony.com Founded: 1900 Music director: Jaap van Zweden Annual budget: $28 million Endowment: $100 million Members: 89 It may be the rare individual work that can constitute a bold programming statement on its own as well as a proclamation of an orchestra's sense of mission, but Steven Stucky's "August 4, 1964" is surely one of them.

Its goal, as stated in a proclamation by General Schuyler, was to "drive away, if possible, the troops of Great Britain" that "under the orders of a despotic ministry ... aim to subject their fellow-citizens and brethren to the yoke of a hard slavery".

It sounded like both a proclamation as well as hopeful aside.

Even in New York, a proclamation issued as long ago as 1659 by Peter Stuyvesant, the director-general of New Amsterdam, proscribed tennis on days of fasting and prayer.

In her 1930 solo "Frontier," the woman hurled a leg out and up to one side and an arm out and up to the other, as if issuing a proclamation or staking a claim.

The bipartisan backlash to the president's comments intensified on Friday as Mr. Trump signed a proclamation at the White House for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, ignoring a question from a reporter about whether he is a racist.