Sentence examples for was being proclaimed from inspiring English sources

By the time I left office, New York City was being proclaimed as the best example of conservative government in the country.

I visit, too, because Brussels has, in the past ten years, become one of Europe's most important cities for contemporary art, and before today was being proclaimed "the new Berlin" with metronomic regularity.

Just ahead, a boisterous wedding party on the deck of a wooden cruiser filled the air with vodka-fueled shouts of "gorko!," meaning bitterness, a traditional Russian encouragement to the bride and groom to kiss and thus provide the guests with the opposite of what was being proclaimed.

Andersen once more tried to evade justice when he fled a crowded court room in Drammen in 1929, jumping out a window as the sentence was being proclaimed.

While John was being proclaimed emperor and crowned by a monk – since Patriarch John X Kamateros hid himself inside a cupboard – the capital's populace rioted outside and set fire to a number of churches.

As budget cutters move in, statehouse victories are being proclaimed when education can be spared the knife.

The deaths of Uday and Qusay Hussein are being proclaimed a victory, but it is a temporary victory.

But if it has not been the year of Tom Cruise, it is being proclaimed the year of Asia.

In a much-needed embarrassment of riches for horse enthusiasts, another 3-year-old colt is being proclaimed the "best in the world".

The victorious SNL, led by Mr Mohammed Egal, is the party loudest in its demands for quick independence (it boycotted the earlier elections) and its victory is being proclaimed by Cairo radio as a smack in the eye for imperialism.

In a parliamentary exchange from 28 April, Whitbread said: "For the first time in the history of the world, war is being proclaimed against one man for the demolition of his power.