Sentence examples for solemn documents from inspiring English sources

Every year, the United Nations issues hundreds of solemn documents, written in the clotted prose of international bureaucracy, and they disappear without a trace, while horrors continue unabated.

By the bulls (solemn documents) Execrabilis (1317) and Ex Debito (1319), he increased papal control over the distribution of church offices and over the fees paid by their recipients.

By George Packer Every year, the United Nations issues hundreds of solemn documents, written in the clotted prose of international bureaucracy, and they disappear without a trace, while horrors continue unabated.

Lineage was lost wholesale by the time the Dawes Rolls were closed, but it remains the solemn document of American Indian heritage.

Summoned to military headquarters, he convinced the brass that it would be inappropriate for a comic figure like Don Francisco to recite so solemn a document of state.

But there is a kicker at the very end of Mr Boehner's document, where this solemn pledge is made: "none of this can happen before specific enforcement triggers have been implemented".

Solemn, indeed.

Gruden looked solemn.

Most were solemn.

The atmosphere was solemn.

It was very solemn.