But those barbs did little to dampen Mr. Zuma's exuberant proclamations of victory.
Then, over the next several days, the newspapers slowly tiptoed away from their gleeful proclamations of victory.
Democrats, meanwhile, seem flummoxed at the President's proclamations of victory, and the Republicans' apparently successful effort to brand this weekend's fiasco as the Schumer Shutdown.
AFTER weeks of fake results and over-hasty proclamations of victory in the country's presidential run-off election, Congo will soon have its first democratically elected leader in over 40 years.
Video posted on the Internet showed what the rebels claimed to be the destruction of a high-rise building at the checkpoint, along with proclamations of victory by fighters of the Nusra Front "and the Islamic battalions who participated in the operation".
But you might also read it as the final proclamation of his victory: whereas Pine picked his side and relentlessly pursued a corresponding agenda, Roper was too besotted with the boy in his own image to see what was staring him in the face – to commit to the truth that he must, must, have known.
No matter, suggested the Taliban, which calls itself the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, in a statement bluntly titled: "Formal Proclamation of Islamic Emirate's Victory".
Perhaps a more fanciful comparison, but nonetheless indicative: no one in China was predicting that the Long March of Mao, which began in defeat and despair, would end in Beijing with victory and the proclamation of a whole new nation under a whole new political system.
While the Emancipation Proclamation and the victory of the North in the American Civil War ended slavery in the USA, they did not prevent scientists from continuing to exploit African Americans throughout the following centuries.
The average margin of victory in the Jets' six losses has been 17 points, a clear indication that they are not of playoff timbre, despite their public proclamations to the contrary.
