Yet, as he himself says, he and his colleagues were "surprised by the proclamation of a 'Marburg School' in the journals" around 1900, a not always well-meant appellation (Cohen 1914: 466).
Under the circumstances, it is no surprise that their public proclamations of a desire to work for harmonious relations ring hollow, at least to each other.
Saying that Specter's proclamation came as a "surprise" to her and other national labor officials, Ackerman did not consider his vote on EFCA entirely lost.
News of Admiral Howe's amnesty proclamation was met with some surprise, as its terms were more lenient than the hardliners in the government expected.
Philip was surprised to see this, and published a proclamation announcing that "he gave three days' grace to those who wished to hang or stab themselves".
Yet this new proclamation shouldn't come as a surprise as the reasons for moving ahead are compelling.
What I hadn't realised was that her ABC appearance the night before was the first time Tempest had been so overtly political ("I didn't quite know what I was getting myself into," she said during her writers' festival talk on Friday), and that the proclamations she surprised herself by making on TV represent the beginning of a new stage for her work.
It was no surprise, then, that Southern whites reacted to Lincoln's proclamation with fury.
I read out this proclamation in Prague which, I may say, was somewhat a surprise to me.
Mr. Glass, the museum's director, said it came as little surprise that the message did not mention slavery after all; Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in separate executive orders in October 1862 and January 1863.
A proclamation is issued.
