Word: proclaiming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with a coherent policy on women to guide their flock of 58 million. The bishops are already into their ninth year of trying to agree on a pastoral letter, and the longer it takes, the more rancorous the debates become. Feminist lobbyists, antifeminist lobbyists, even a few bishops, proclaim the project a disaster and say no letter should be produced...
...continued attacks on neighboring Bosnia. But no amount of home-capital "consultations" is likely to wind down the latest act in Europe's fiercest bloodletting since World War II. Though the West's opprobrium has landed squarely on Serbia's fiercely nationalistic president, Slobodan Milosevic, he continues to proclaim that all he wants is peace...
...PROCLAIM THE FEDERAL REpublic of Yugoslavia," intoned Bogdana Levakov, leader of the parliament in Belgrade, as a new flag was hoisted minus the red star of the old communist Yugoslavia. The star was not all that was gone: this Yugoslavia consists of just two republics, Serbia and Montenegro, with less than half the territory and less than half the 23.9 million people that constituted the nation of six republics a year ago. Only a handful of other countries sent representatives to honor the launch of the self-proclaimed new Yugoslavia...
...such conditions, a character like Chavez could emerge any day from the barracks, or one like Fujimori from the presidential palace, to proclaim himself the champion of the people's fears and frustrations. And it's all too easy to imagine the crowds cheering...
Watching the Orioles take Batting Practice (BP), I felt a lot like any other spectator, though. How could this arena proclaim itself my "home?" Home was Memorial Stadium, the Orioles' ex-field. How could this imposter greet me with a sardonic "Welcome Home...