Word: proclaimingly
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...there were scientific or technological "fixes" for all the nation's problems, including its most serious social ills. Even as late as 1967, after Watts, Newark and Detroit had been engulfed in flames, the dean of M.I.T.'s College of Engineering, Gordon Brown, could be heard to proclaim: "I doubt if there is such a thing as an urban crisis, but if there were, M.I.T. would lick it in the same way we handled the Second World...
...nobody has gained in power so much as Sadat himself. Later last week he added to his roles of President, Premier and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces the title of Military Governor General of Egypt. As such, he can proclaim martial law at will. The move seemed a clear warning that Sadat is in a tougher mood and will brook no more demonstrations by students or other dissidents...
...Francisco area, where rainfall has been twice as heavy as usual and houses have started to slide down green hillsides, the Cupertino city council passed a resolution: "Without intending to interfere in the overall plan of things as envisioned by the Deity, the city council of Cupertino does hereby proclaim that there shall be no more rainfall within the city limits during the remainder of March 1973." Man proposes, God disposes: a few days later it rained...
...Union representatives in almost every GSAS department that Union support had dwindled to near insignificance, the group voted overwhelmingly to return to work, but to remain organized in some form against the Kraus plan. After three hours of cynical and disillusioned proclamations, the Union issued an enthusiastic statement to "proclaim our solidarity" and declared that "we will be back...
...even lawyers find it hard to define. It has what the textbooks call a "convenient vagueness" that makes its precise limits uncertain. Basically, due process is meant to ensure what the Supreme Court calls "fundamental fairness." It is embodied in the Fifth and 14th amendments to the Constitution, which proclaim that no federal, state or local government can deprive a person of "life, liberty or property without due process of law." Despite the venerability of the concept, however, courts only now are coming to a broad new view of its application...