Sentence examples for proclamation it from inspiring English sources

If Parliament was not sitting at the time of the proclamation, it was to resume its session within ten days.

"If he would have come out and made a proclamation, it would have been used against him.

Unlike the Emancipation Proclamation, it had the power of law, and Seward predicted, prematurely, that the process of Reconstruction was almost complete.

Being blunt and being pugnacious were, in fact, two of the personality traits that the Philadelphia City Council noted admiringly in a proclamation it issued on Thursday honoring Mr. Timoney.

Although the Proclamation did not free all slaves in the nation -- indeed, no slaves outside of the Confederacy were affected by the Proclamation -- it was an important symbolic gesture that identified the Union with freedom and the death of slavery.

It was the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation; it was the year that Medgar Evers, the civil rights leader, and President John F. Kennedy were assassinated; and it was the year that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech.

Like all visionary proclamations, it draws in its wake the unfinished aspirations of those early founders who shifted the human venture into new dimensions of possibility and choice.

Among many proclamations, it discourages use of modern contraceptives.

"I think, Yippee!" Despite such proclamations, it is already clear that Katie sometimes becomes frustrated with her limitations.

In the proclamations, it generally sounds as if everything went swimmingly until the part where the South lost and grudgingly rejoined the country.

If the Jets were in Super Bowl XLV, quarterback Mark Sanchez would have had a chance to be measured for a ring in his second season, but for all of Coach Rex Ryan's persistent proclamations, it was not to be.