Sentence examples for proclamation became from inspiring English sources

In collecting both strains, Solomons hints at a Southerner's increasingly conflicted beliefs about what enslaved people might actually think and feel, and what they might do if the Confederacy lost and the Emancipation Proclamation became effective.

There are no gay bars — though a local biker bar has a gay night every Tuesday — and Brock Neeley, who asked Ms. Gurrola to sponsor the proclamation, became a bit of a local celebrity after he and his partner of 12 years, John Coffee, became the first same-sex couple in Tulare County to get married in 2008.

Every proclamation becomes an ornate, cantilevered series of refinements.

All Union operations in slave territory, especially as the Emancipation Proclamation become well known, yielded the self-liberated by the hundreds.

This was all good until his proclamations became more regular and I could sense a real seriousness of purpose.

Highlighted in this altered context, the proclamations become more complex messages that might deal with adjustments to the food chain.

Though presidents since George Washington had been issuing Thanksgiving proclamations, Pat became the only First Lady to issue one.

As Christian proclamations have become common in American politics, middle-of-the-road Protestants have sought to anoint a pulpit superstar to rival White House favorites like the Rev. Franklin Graham on the one hand and the Rev. Jesse Jackson on the other.

As the games grew more competitive -- Jordan sustained two cracked ribs and battled tendinitis for much of the summer -- the whispers gradually became proclamations.

Wales is fond of citing a 1962 proclamation by Charles Van Doren, who later became an editor at Britannica.

The ensuing war was at first for Union, then after 1863 as casualties mounted and Lincoln delivered his Emancipation Proclamation, a second war aim became abolition of slavery.