Sentence examples for proclamation failed from inspiring English sources

Politicians opposed to the war pointed out that the proclamation failed to mention the primacy of the Parliament.

But he said the proclamation would fail: it was nothing more than a gesture of "impotent rage" for which Confederates should show "contempt".

His proclamation after a failed assassination attempt: "If I am to die by the bullet of a madman, I must do so smiling.

As historian Allen Guelzo describes, Lincoln became determined, after Frémont's failed proclamation, that emancipation could not be a matter of martial law or some other temporary measure that would later be challenged in courts.

Cole speculates that Napoleon's "Proclamation to the Egyptians" failed largely because it was so badly translated into Arabic.

Trump's proclamation comes after Republicans' several failed attempts to pass legislation overturning the ACA outright. .

Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, a Republican, was forced to apologise when his proclamation declaring April Confederate History Month failed to make any reference to slavery.

The president has so far remained silent on Pride Month and failed to release any proclamation declaring June as a month to honor LGBTQ people.

But since taking office two years ago, despite an approval rating that hovers around 60%, he has been knocked off-balance by avoidable controversies.In April 2010 Mr McDonnell signed a proclamation celebrating Virginia's Confederate past, but failed to make any mention of slavery.

"Peace reigns in Kosovo," said its prime minister.But if such a lofty proclamation was meant to soften western ire, it failed.

Though King's manifesto failed to spur a second Emancipation Proclamation from the White House, it was an important and emphatic attempt to combat the structured forgetting of emancipation latent within Civil War memory.