Box 1 Joint Proclamation by the Heads of Government of Six Countries Regarding the Completion of the Human Genome Sequence.
The international HGP was officially closed with the "Joint Proclamation by the Heads of Government of Six Countries Regarding the Completion of the Human Genome Sequence" on 14 April, 2003 (Box 1) (Administration of George W. Bush, 2003).
On 12 April 2003, heads of government of the six countries which contributed to the sequencing efforts (the U.S., the U.K., Japan, France, Germany, and China) issued a joint proclamation that the "essential sequence of three billion base pairs of DNA of the Human Genome, the molecular instruction book of human life," had been achieved (Dept. of Trade 2003).
Peoples Republic of China Joint Proclamation by the State Administration for Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine, Customs and the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, No. 23, November 1 , 1999
To call a special session, Senator McKay and Tom Feeney, the speaker of the Florida House, must sign a joint proclamation calling legislators to Tallahassee, the state capital.
By joint proclamation, the two could summon all state legislators for a special session of whatever length they choose, and on whatever subject they wish to address.
This in turn would clear the way for Tom Feeney, the Republican House speaker, and John McKay, the Republican Senate president, to sign a joint proclamation calling for the session.
With the media coverage and social media content related to the announcements as a stimulus, this pre-post-study noted increases in U.S. adults' levels of perceived knowledge, salience of attributes, as well as attitudes toward Cuba after the joint proclamations.
WASHINGTON — Corporate lobbyists and government watchdog groups are rarely on the same side of any money-and-ethics issue in this town, generally being more accustomed to sending out dueling press releases than joint proclamations.
They were a proclamation of defeat.
