In 1960 there was the shooting at Sharpeville, which resulted in the proclamation of a state of emergency and the declaration of the ANC as an unlawful organisation.
— In a state so parched by drought that the governor, Rick Perry, issued a proclamation declaring three days of prayer for rain in April, enter the rainmaker, Justin Verlander.
Perhaps al-Qaeda's proclamation of a civilisational war has been, in part, self-fulfilling: millions of Muslims regard their faith as being in a state of confrontation, along many fronts, with the West.
It is recognized by proclamation in thirty-eight states and two countries, and falls each year at the time of the autumnal equinox and serves as a sort of secular, global Thanksgiving.
LIKE many Russians who witnessed the bloody downfall of the czar and proclamation of a Marxist state in 1917, Alexander Rodchenko believed the rhetoric of a socialist paradise to come.
Early in 1779, Governor Clinton issued a proclamation stating that the state of New York would honor the Wentworth grants, if the settlers would recognize New York's political jurisdiction over the Vermont territory.
In the final episode, Tony ordered a bowl for the family, with the proclamation, "Best in the state!" "Awesome," the younger Donald Higgins said.
The senator also seized the initiative in a recent uproar over a state proclamation of Confederate History Month, a proclamation originated by Mr. Allen as governor.
Hardly had we been told that all that ugliness was a fantasy than we learned back in the material world that the new Republican governor of Virginia, Robert McDonnell, had issued a state proclamation celebrating April as Confederate History Month.
Following the proclamation of Brazilian independence in 1822, it became a province of the empire, and in 1889 it became a state of the republic.
