It was the proclamation of a would-be national icon, something that as a product the nation has long since forgotten, but that as an idea the nation has never left behind.
Autocratic regimes will eagerly quote Trump's proclamation that "it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first".
A wider measure to stimulate piety and restore the papal reputation was the proclamation of the 1450 Jubilee Year.
Consequently, the "expected event" might have been the proclamation of the Fatimid caliph 'Ubaydallâh al-Mahdî in Ifriqiyya, which happened in that year.
It is the astonishingly confident proclamation of a poet who is creating a new style, even a new language, as he goes along: Thou mastering me God! giver of breath and bread; World's strand, sway of the sea; Lord of living and dead; Thou hast bound bones and veins in me, fastened me flesh, And after it almost unmade, what with dread, Thy doing: and dost thou touch me afresh?
After reading these stories, I had nothing but deep scorn toward the CCP's proclamation that it is the party of greatness, gloriousness, and correctness.
Forget the next proclamation that it's the 'year of the woman'.
It was the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation; it was the year that Medgar Evers, the civil rights leader, and President John F. Kennedy were assassinated; and it was the year that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech.
In some respects, it is less a proclamation of talent than a meditation on precocity.
As my teacher, Arthur Green writes, "The Shema is... the proclamation of Divine Oneness.
But it's a proclamation of lack mentality.
