5 sentences with 'proclamation'
Example sentences and phrases with the word proclamation and other words derived from it.
• « The conquest of Babylon produced one outstanding example - the "Cyrus Cylinder", a pillar covered by a proclamation that Cyrus commissioned after the conquest of Babylon. »
• « Written during the rule of Ptolemy, the Rosetta Stone consists of a single royal proclamation in two hieroglyphic alphabets as well as in ancient Greek. »
• « American President James Monroe feared that the Holy Alliance might try to extend its intervention to the now former Spanish colonies and therefore issued a proclamation that any attempt by a European power to intervene in the Western Hemisphere would be considered a threat to the peace and security of the United States. »
• « Brought by English ships, news arrived in Buenos Aires in mid-May 1810 of the dissolution of the Central Junta of Seville and of the risk in which Cadiz was placed in Spain. Viceroy Cisneros had sheets of paper printed and distributed with reproductions of the information that had arrived from Europe. And on the 18th of that month of May he issued a proclamation to ask the people to remain calm and to reiterate the purpose of fighting for the freedom of Ferdinand VII and his dominions. »
• « Although a number of slaves rallied to Dunmore's side, the proclamation had the unintended effect of galvanising the Patriots' resistance to Britain. »