Sentence examples for issue a proclamation from inspiring English sources

Lincoln had therefore decided to issue a proclamation emancipating all slaves in rebel-held territory.

"They will have had to issue a proclamation in the government gazette specifying it.

The first was that the president didn't have the executive authority to issue a proclamation of Thanksgiving.

That song proved a good warm-up for Marty Markowitz, the Brooklyn borough president, who briefly took the stage to issue a proclamation.

Two weeks ago it asked C. Virginia Fields, the Manhattan borough president, to issue a proclamation stating that the neighborhood would be known as Rosehill again.

Alien abduction was afforded enough credibility for the mayor of a Texas town to issue a proclamation inviting extraterrestrials to land.

He issued a proclamation to inaugurate the traveling promotion.

Trump later issued a proclamation reversing the decision.

Gen. John C. Frémont, commander of the Union Western Department in St . Louis issued a proclamation of martial law.

By 1913, the government issued a proclamation ordering the destruction of all eucalyptus trees.

In his first year in office, Mr. Hinckley issued a proclamation on the family.