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Example sentences for: proclamation

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By the 16 th century the formally witnessed contract, called the "spousals," was usually followed by the proclamation of the banns three times in church, but the spousals itself was a legally binding contract.
Albright's U.N. tenure is best remembered for two things: her sandbagging of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali and her proclamation that Cuba's shooting down of planes flown by anti-Castro exiles took "not cojones " but "cowardice."
Chicano writers, artists, professionals, musicians, and students are invigorated by the proclamation of “La Raza!”
The pope issued a proclamation, expressing the hope that "a great harvest of faith will be reaped on this vast and vital continent" and arguing that "Asia is thirsting for the living water that Jesus alone can give."
One could stop well short of anything as elaborate as the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie's old tag line ("King of Kings, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah") or the array of distinctions paraded by the young ruler in Evelyn Waugh's Black Mischief (a proclamation begins, "We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Lord of Wanda, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University ..."