But the timing also provided China's leaders with an opportunity to proclaim, on the one hand, their magnanimity and, on the other, their vigilance when it comes to restive ethnic minorities.
"More Usinsk oil to the motherland!" giant letters proclaim on top of one prefab flat block.
"This meeting of the 'Swingin' Soiree' is now in session," Mr. K (n?aufman) used to proclaim on his radio broadcasts, the ones presumably being played on radios belonging to Brooklyn teenagers of the era as they watched the submarine races from under the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.
It also inspired her to proclaim on her own Facebook page that she didn't "need the veil Columbia Compliments" to publicly sing the praises of a classmate.
Nicholas Music Inc.," as the hand-painted gold-leaf letters proclaim on the transom over a door with chicken-wire frosted glass, brass hardware and a mail slot.
In fact, they have won four straight, enough for Jon Paul Morosi to proclaim on Foxsports.com that they cannot be written off in the American League East quite yet.
