Sentence examples for proclamation before from inspiring English sources

A US officer who killed 13 soldiers in a gun rampage at a Texas army base shouted a triumphant Islamic proclamation before opening fire, it was claimed today.

On July 22, he told his full cabinet that he had "resolved upon this step, and had not called them together to ask their advice," but rather "to lay the subject matter of a proclamation before them".

Obama signed that proclamation before he left office.

UPDATE, Aug. 6, 3 20 p.m. HST: Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie signed an emergency proclamation before Hurricanes Iselle and Julio make landfall.

But then the mischievous Rivera pointed out with a teasing smile that he had made such proclamations before, and more than once.

With armies on the march, and the old social order crumbling, men like John Washington and Wallace Turnage seized the moment and made a break for freedom, issuing their own emancipation proclamations before the fact.

At their White House Seder, the small group of mostly African-American and Jewish attendees reads the Emancipation Proclamation right before welcoming Elijah, just as the year before.

He commenced to read a proclamation, but before he finished doing so was shot dead.

All his ambitions in regards to the succession being thwarted, Cosimo III distributed one final proclamation shortly before his death, on 31 October 1723, decreeing that the Electress shall succeed Gian Gastone.

The eminent English diarist Samuel Pepys made the following entry on the evening of Oct. 8, 1666, noting a proclamation made the day before by King Charles II: "The King hath yesterday in council declared his resolution of setting a fashion for clothes, which he will never alter.

But before we accept Congress's proclamation of bias, before we start re-educating scientists at workshops, it's worth taking a hard look at the evidence of bias against female scientists.