When Anna Kaufman, a 70-year-old refugee from the Ukraine, was asked by Mr. Sperling what the Emancipation Proclamation did, for example, she answered, "It freed slavery".
In Washington, Representative Matt Salmon called it "the Emancipation Proclamation for pedophiles," while Representative Tom DeLay accused it of "normalizing pedophilia".
They come if they need a zoning variance, for example, or are receiving a proclamation.
Many of these outings are strictly mayoral -- presenting a proclamation at the New York Is Book Country reception, for example -- while others are for groups that Mr. Bloomberg supported when he ran Bloomberg L.P., like arts philanthropies.
For example: "Who issued the Emancipation Proclamation and who won the Civil War".
In Berlin, for example, there might be a bellicose proclamation, troop movements through the capital, sensational headlines in the newspapers, a protest by an angry ambassador, a fiery speech by Hitler, Goring or Goebbels threatening Nazi Germany's next victim all in the course of the day.
USAID's decision to channel tens of billions of dollars through the Egyptian and Pakistani governments, for example – both of which have been plagued for years by proclamations of corruption and financial mismanagement [ 58, 59], illustrates one instance of this.
Mr. Seabrook, for example, did not tell the Council that Michael A. Deas, who operated the program at Lehman College that he applauded last year in an official proclamation, was his nephew, according to Maria Alvarado, a spokeswoman for Speaker Christine C. Quinn.
In England, for example, conservative political thinkers such as Edmund Burke and David Hume united with liberals such as Jeremy Bentham to condemn the doctrine, the former out of fear that public affirmation of natural rights would lead to social upheaval, the latter out of concern lest declarations and proclamations of natural rights substitute for effective legislation.
