Sentence examples for for a proclamation from inspiring English sources

That afternoon, the military leaders went to the Shah and asked for a proclamation of martial law.

During an intimate tour with the president through the Lincoln Sitting Room in October 1961, King paused to ask Kennedy for a proclamation "outlawing segregation".

What they did not know was that President Lincoln, whom a number of them distrusted, was silently hard at work on his own, preparing the way for a proclamation beyond anything Congress had yet envisaged.

Mr. Markowitz's office drew some recent criticism when it advertised, in tough financial times, a $42,000-a-year 42,000-a-year 42,000-a-yearer; a spokeswoman later said the person who handled the honors had other responsibilities.

In 1893 the British government signed a new convention permitting the South African Republic to negotiate with the Swazi regent and her council for a proclamation allowing the republic to assume powers of jurisdiction, legislation, and administration without the incorporation of Swaziland into the republic.

The radicals aggressively pushed the issue, provoking Lincoln to comment: "Stevens, Sumner and [Massachusetts Senator Henry] Wilson simply haunt me with their importunities for a Proclamation of Emancipation.

Special reservists were permitted to agree to serve for an indefinite period without discharge, and could agree in writing to be liable for callout without a proclamation or order of Parliament.

At Bandung Nasser sought a proclamation for the avoidance of international defense alliances, support for the independence of Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco from French rule, support for the Palestinian right of return, and the implementation of UN resolutions regarding the Arab Israeli conflict.

But a proclamation for this president who created a new political subspecies, the Reagan Democrat?

And, in 1693, in colonial America, Virginia governor Edmund Andros issued a proclamation for a "day of humiliation and prayer" in the hope of waylaying the virus.

First came the poster, its facade scratched and worn, with a proclamation for passing riders: "We are rehabilitating the Newkirk Avenue Station".