Sentence examples for to issue a proclamation from inspiring English sources

Lincoln had therefore decided to issue a proclamation emancipating all slaves in rebel-held territory.

"They will have had to issue a proclamation in the government gazette specifying it.

That song proved a good warm-up for Marty Markowitz, the Brooklyn borough president, who briefly took the stage to issue a proclamation.

Two weeks ago it asked C. Virginia Fields, the Manhattan borough president, to issue a proclamation stating that the neighborhood would be known as Rosehill again.

That day he privately told Secretary of State William H. Seward and Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles that he was going to issue a proclamation declaring emancipation for all slaves in the Confederacy.

Gen. Henry W. Halleck, commander of the Department of the Missouri, to issue a proclamation that guerrillas would not be treated as prisoners of war "but will be hung as robbers and murderers".

On May 9, 2010, Rousey took to her blog to issue a formal proclamation: "I finally feel like I've realized what I want to accomplish next and made the decision to f**k all and go for it".

But if King William wants to forestall that dire eventuality, a good first step would be to issue a Royal proclamation (with Parliament's approval, of course) designating "Jerusalem" as the official British national anthem.

In an open letter to President Hoover, President Charles Smith of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism says they will not make any protest against the celebration of Thanksgiving this year, and to hold a Blamegiving Day, and will agree to cancel this program if the President will refuse to issue a religious proclamation in behalf of Thanksgiving.

The company, the Beauchamp Tower Corporation of Milton, Fla., persuaded the Mexican government in 2006 to issue a presidential proclamation declaring it the owner, with the nebulous goal of restoring the ship as both a museum and as a working emergency communications facility — and with heavy hints that the Mexican Navy would also have a place in the museum.

This prompted the authorities to issue a public proclamation on 7 November naming them and several of their fellow conspirators as wanted men.