As budget cutters move in, statehouse victories are being proclaimed when education can be spared the knife.
By the time I left office, New York City was being proclaimed as the best example of conservative government in the country.
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.
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.
Mr Blair says he would be radical on welfare too, but so far has failed to come up with any coherent plan for reform or even to show any sign that he is thinking about one.On balance, then, neither party looks set to wreck Britain's economy; the case for macroeconomic stability is being proclaimed by everyone.
"We don't call out, 'Ohhh, sulfate free' because when we look at the benefits that are being proclaimed for sulfate free, the connection with dry hair, the connection with color stripping, we don't find that to be something connected to sulfate or nonsulfates," said Pat Peterson, the vice president for product development.
