Sentence examples for surprise declaration from inspiring English sources

So the junta's surprise declaration last week that it would hold a constitutional referendum in May and multi-party elections in 2010 should be cause for cheers.

There was no question Wright was a precocious talent, but there may have been another, subtler motivation for his surprise declaration.

The late-night bargaining session ended early Wednesday morning with a surprise declaration that OPEC would cut production to shore up sagging prices.

Libya's surprise declaration giving up its nuclear, biological and chemical weapons was the culmination of a week of intense negotiations that followed months of secret diplomacy, officials in London and Washington said Saturday.

Abbott, a member of the parliamentary Socialist Campaign group which McDonnell chairs, has secured just 11 nominations since making her surprise declaration that she would stand in the contest.

The surprise declaration was widely taken as a tacit acknowledgment of the damage done to his movement's reputation by two days of Shiite-on-Shiite in-fighting, which killed 52 people, wounded 279 and forced thousands of pilgrims to flee birthday celebrations for the Mahdi, one of Shiite Islam's most revered medieval saints.

The candidates' surprise declarations did not impress others who had made clear their opposition to the war from the start.

The action was followed on June 17 by a surprise constitutional declaration by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces expanding its authority and placing new restrictions on the powers of the incoming president.

With Pope Tawadros II, his Coptic counterpart, Francis engaged in what he called an "ecumenism of blood," even issuing a surprise joint declaration whereby the two churches, alienated for a millennium and a half, recognized each other's baptisms.

The dissolution of the Muslim Brotherhood-led People's Assembly by the Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court on June 14 and the interim military government's surprise constitutional declaration on June 17, which stripped the presidency of much of its authority, raised new questions about the interim government's willingness to cede power to elected officials.

In November 2007, a surprise ministerial declaration criminalised local-level deals for wildlife-related enterprises, capturing all such returns for the state, with no requirement for a set proportion to be returned to the community (TNRF 2007).