Word: proclaimed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nature of the Israeli opposition to the agreement of principles makes it difficult to predict how it will behave in the coming months. At the moment, an uneasy coalition exists. On one end are religious extremists who proclaim that it is a desecration of God to give up Jericho; on the other are the hundreds of relatively moderate Israelis who moved to settlements in the territories less for ideological reasons than for economic ones...
...supporters realized that with a mere 29 percent of the American people's backing, they need every bit of moral cover they can find. Their solution was to name the bill the Cesar Chavez Workplace Fairness Act, and have Majority Leader Richard A. Gephardt (D-Mo.,) proclaim that the bill was "a statement...about our fundamental values in this country...
Like many a talented nonfiction writer, Malcolm has come to think of herself as an artist. Her narratives proclaim her a storyteller, not just a fact gatherer. Without that gift and some measure of literary license -- with only a daily newspaper's flat objectivity -- a 48,500-word profile would be unbearable. Perhaps she could make a case for broadening the boundaries of "responsible journalism." She has not. Her defense is that her quotations are literal. They ought to be. Writers use the quoted word because it has a special piquancy -- the sacred appeal of being, in an often shadowy...
...have been displaced during the war raging in the Balkans. Yet I struggle with my disbelief at the inaction of those of us who hope to erase genocide from the planet, from President Clinton to the politically and religiously active communities at Harvard. How dare we sit back and proclaim with self-assurance that our ceremonies, will prevent--and indeed, are currently preventing--genocide from taking place again? Until we assure that genocide is not happening anywhere, until our reminders stir us to action, our ceremonies will be in vain...
After winning the first game 4-2 and losing the second in an extrainning squeaker, 1-0, the Crimson players were ready to proclaim their recent mini-slump over...