The message that France would consider military action against Iraq, but only after the inspectors themselves proclaimed failure, was overtaken by Mr. Chirac's threat to veto an Amerian war resolution in the Security Council.
Not to compare one musty old-boy network to the civil rights movement, but back in the early 60's people proclaimed failure every time somebody got doused with ketchup and tossed into the street during a lunch-counter demonstration.
Before the state test, Mr. Kilgore and the other teachers chipped in money to buy T-shirts for every third and fourth grader; the shirts are in blue and yellow, the school's colors, and proclaim "Failure is NOT an option" above a pencil, paper and alarm clock.
Susan B. Anthony proclaimed "Failure is Impossible" in her last speech on voting rights.
And when the next day the tainted food was gone, not even orange dust particles remained, I proclaimed, 'Failure!'.
Indeed, these leaders responded to the latest job numbers by proclaiming the failure of the Obama economic plan.
The marquee of the Harms center, which in recent years announced an eclectic slate of performers ranging from Tony Bennett to the children's act the Wiggles, has been blank for two months, proclaiming financial failure for the theater and uncertainty about this city's continued revival.
The Russian and American announcements came as Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, continued a seemingly endless series of public appearances in New York: television interviews, meetings with reporters and academics and speeches denouncing American imperialism, proclaiming the failures of capitalism, and warning the United States that it had never been involved in a "real war".
Even the usually moderate Christian Democrats have, since the last election, proclaimed the "failure of a multicultural experiment" and the "right of the Dutch people to feel at home in their own country".More importantly, it has also permeated Dutch policymaking.
The rootless, self-deprived Larkin persona proclaims his failure to find "the place where I could say / This is my proper ground, / Here I shall stay" and to meet "that special one / Who has an instant claim / On everything I own / Down to my name".
