Branch churches outside the United States may schedule their Thanksgiving service when convenient for them, most choosing a day in October or November, and the Thanksgiving Day proclamation by the United States president, may be omitted.

: Any magistrate, or in the absence of any magistrate any commissioned officer in Her Majesty's Naval, Military or Air Force Service or any police officer above the rank of inspector, in whose view a riot is being committed, or who apprehends that a riot is about to be committed by persons being assembled within his view, may make or cause to be made a proclamation in the Queen's name, in such form as he thinks fit, commanding the rioters or persons so assembled to disperse peaceably.

A person of exceptional merit, generally a non-United States citizen, may be declared an Honorary Citizen of the United States by an Act of Congress, or by a proclamation issued by the President of the United States, pursuant to authorization granted by Congress.

: Now, therefore, I, Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, do issue this, my proclamation, inviting all those who may desire, by service in private armed vessels on the high seas, to aid this government in resisting so wanton and wicked an aggression, to make application for commissions or letters of marque and reprisal, to be issued under the seal of these Confederate States ....

The Texas Constitution limits the duration of each special session to 30 days ; lawmakers may consider only those issues designated by the Governor in his " call ," or proclamation convening the special session ( though other issues may be added by the Governor during a session ).

In some cases it may be the day of, or the anniversary of, the proclamation of a monarch's accession to the throne.

A proclamation day may also celebrate the independence of a country, the end of a war, or the ratification of an important treaty.

Alternatively, the rationale for Hollingsworth may have been that a Presidential proclamation of ratification is conclusive upon the courts notwithstanding arguable defects in the ratification process.

The proclamation briefly alarmed Maharaja Abu Bakar, who feared that his political position may be threatened.

There is evidence of Samuel Barber's having read Blixen's Seven Gothic Tales, and the mistaking of the proper source may have come from a proclamation by Menotti and Barber, that the opera reproduced the " atmosphere " of Isak Dinesen's Seven Gothic Tales.

Singh's contact with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican in the summer of 1983 may have instrumental in the pontiff's awareness of Sikhs and his timely proclamation of goodwill at the time of the Golden Temple attack and massacre.

In all probability the name of Pobóg was formed from the proclamation Pobodze, call „ wishing " in old Polish Po Bodze ( may God keep you in His care ).

On March 30, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation expressing the idea " that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment, inflicted upon us, for our presumptuous sins ", and designated the day of April 30, 1863 as a day of " national humiliation, fasting and prayer " in the hope that God would respond by restoring " our now divided and suffering Country, to its former happy condition of unity and peace ".

On November 25, 1957, the Hands signed a unanimous proclamation stating that he had died " without having appointed his successor "; that " it is now fallen upon us ... to preserve the unity, the security and the development of the Bahá ' í World Community and all its institutions "; and that they would elect from among themselves nine Hands who would " exercise ... all such functions, rights and powers in succession to the Guardian of the Bahá ' í Faith ... as are necessary to serve the interests of the Bahá ' í World Faith, and this until such time as the Universal House of Justice ... may otherwise determine.

The Deputy President is constitutionally required to ' assist the President in the execution of the functions of government ,' and may be assigned any government portfolio by presidential proclamation.

A special session may be called by the governor, by joint proclamation of the Speaker of the House and Senate President or by three-fifths vote of the members of both houses.

Whereas in a regular session bills may be enacted on any subject, in a special session, legislation must be enacted only on those subjects which the Governor announces in his proclamation or " call.

Likewise, while a governor's proclamation may itemize subjects to be considered in a special session, the proclamation cannot dictate that the legislature specifically consider only a bill which mirrors the exact language of a bill offered in a previous session.

" If at any time it appears to His Majesty that any action has been taken or is immediately threatened by any persons or body of persons of such a nature and on so extensive a scale as to be calculated, by interfering with the supply and distribution of food, water, fuel, or light, or with the means of locomotion, to deprive the community, or any substantial portion of the community, of the essentials of life, His Majesty may, by proclamation ( hereinafter referred to as a proclamation of emergency ), declare that a state of emergency exists.

Their origin is unclear, but Irving Finkel has hypothesized that they may reflect a proclamation in another format ( perhaps leather or clay ), derived from the Cyrus Cylinder's text, though for some reason only one in twenty of the original cuneiform symbols were copied.

The President of the United States, pursuant to a Joint Resolution of Congress, has issued a proclamation each year since 1933 declaring May 22nd to be National Maritime Day.

therefore, the recruitment or missionary outreach of the congregation will be co-optation rather than proclamation -- like elements will have to be assimilated.

:" When the day for the assembly which was held in the town of Birka drew near, in accordance with their national custom the king caused a proclamation to be made to the people by the voice of a herald, in order that they might be informed concerning the object of their mission.

But, by the publication of Antony's will, which had been put into his hands by the traitor Plancus, and by carefully letting it be known at Rome what preparations were going on at Samos, and how entirely Antony was acting as the agent of Cleopatra, Octavian produced such a violent outburst of feeling that he easily obtained Antony's deposition from the consulship of 31, for which he had been designated, and a vote for a proclamation of war against Cleopatra, well understood to mean against Antony, though he was not named.

His famous Sermon on the Mount is considered by some Christian scholars to be the proclamation of the New Covenant ethics, in contrast to the Mosaic Covenant of Moses from Mount Sinai.

Pope Benedict XVI said of both Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier: " not only their history which was interwoven for many years from Paris and Rome, but a unique desire — a unique passion, it could be said — moved and sustained them through different human events: the passion to give to God-Trinity a glory always greater and to work for the proclamation of the Gospel of Christ to the peoples who had been ignored.

Upon many suggestions, the date of the Emperor's proclamation on January 18th would be established as day of remembrance.

On May 14, 1948, on the day in which the British Mandate over Palestine expired, the Jewish People's Council gathered at the Tel Aviv Museum, and approved a proclamation declaring the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz Israel, to be known as the State of Israel.

By imperial proclamation at the wedding, Gustav was given the additional surname " Krupp ," which was to be inherited by primogeniture along with the company.

" The helots were invited by a proclamation to pick out those of their number who claimed to have most distinguished themselves against the enemy, in order that they might receive their freedom ; the object being to test them, as it was thought that the first to claim their freedom would be the most high spirited and the most apt to rebel.

The next day she issued a proclamation that there would be no alteration in the current state of religion and that her servants should not be molested or troubled.

On August 23 he issued a proclamation declaring the colonies to be in a state of " open and avowed rebellion.

On 7 July the Queen gave birth to a daughter, Louise Augusta ; and a proclamation commanded that a Te Deum in honour of the event should be sung in all the churches.

These coffee-house clubs soon became hotbeds of political scandal-mongering and intriguing, and in 1675 King Charles II issued a proclamation which ran: “ His Majesty hath thought fit and necessary that coffee houses be ( for the future ) put down and suppressed ,” because “ in such houses divers false, malitious and scandalous reports are devised and spread abroad to the Defamation of his Majesty ’ s Government and to the Disturbance of Peace and Quiet of the Realm .” So unpopular was this proclamation that it was almost instantly found necessary to withdraw it, and by Anne ’ s reign the coffee-house club was a feature of England ’ s social life.

Sixtus had Cardinal Allen draw up the An Admonition to the Nobility and Laity of England, a proclamation to be published in England if the invasion had been successful.

Kant called this " the proclamation of a great reform, which, however, will be slow in manifestation and in progress, and which will affect not only your people but others as well.

The program later revealed that William of Orange had received the most votes, but many could not be counted until after the official closing time of the television show ( and the proclamation of the winner ), due to technical problems.

US President Calvin Coolidge recommended in 1924 that the day be observed by the nation, but stopped short of issuing a national proclamation.

On May 14, 1948, on the day in which the British Mandate over Palestine expired, the Jewish People's Council gathered at the Tel Aviv Museum, and approved a proclamation which declared the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz Israel, to be known as the State of Israel.

The duke then issued on 25 July a proclamation called the Brunswick Manifesto, written by Louis's émigré cousin, the Prince de Condé, declaring the intent of the Austrians and Prussians to restore the king to his full powers and to treat any person or town who opposed them as rebels to be condemned to death by martial law.

At Mid-morning is sung in the Cathedral the Carol of San Frutos, after which there are often various activities in the Plaza Mayor, as a proclamation, a concert by the Band of the Segovian Musical Union, mycology exhibition, etc.

The term " Alleluia " is used also to designate a chant beginning and ending with this word and including a verse of Scripture, in particular for such a combination sung before the proclamation of the Gospel as an expression of greeting and welcome to the Lord who is about to speak in the Gospel to those taking part.

A sequence ( Latin: sequentia ) is a chant or hymn sung or recited during the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist for many Christian denominations, before the proclamation of the Gospel.