Sentence examples for make solemn from inspiring English sources

The most recent call came on Sunday, when the Foreign Ministry summoned the ambassador to make "solemn representations" to him about the detention of the captain, China's state-run Xinhua news agency said.

This year, six government ministers, including Michel Barnier, the foreign minister, took part in the memorial ceremony, and they used it to make solemn warnings about the resurgence of anti-Semitic activity of which there is plenty of objective evidence.

These boys and girls make solemn, formulaic speeches about the welfare of their homeland which would come more naturally from a 50-year-old.Daubed on the walls of university campuses, you can see both nationalist and anti-nationalist slogans.

That is, they either strive hard to make solemn masterpieces, or they work in deep compromise on projects alarmingly out of their control, with Zen-like indifference to the outcome, and casually smuggle art onto the set.

The international development secretary has shadowed the post since 2005 and watched world leaders make solemn pledges of financial support at the G8 Gleneagles summit to help deliver the UN's eight Millennium Development Goals.

In running for office, you make solemn promises to advance specific policies.

Gultan Kisanak, the city's co-mayor, and other local politicians made solemn speeches.

He makes solemn promises, then breaks them when it suits him.

He and Surbeck made solemn, urgent notes in their waterproof notebooks, and whispered to one another.

And lo, there was Franco, making solemn progress amid a host of minders, hangers-on, photographers, and other orbital persons.

But where Mom made solemn promises that one day she'll learn the language, Maria José swears to it while laughing.