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  • noun Plural form of pronouncement.

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  • I do feel compelled to point out, though, that the pomposity of my pronouncements is entirely unaffected by whether or not I agree with the political conclusions being drawn, and resent the implication that there are times when I might be less of an insufferable gasbag than at other times.

    Matthew Yglesias » Counterexamples and Analogies 2009

  • There have been monthly pronouncements from the administration on the improvements in the economy, yet the unemployment rate continues to climb to levels seen only once during the past 60 years.

    Orszag: 'We've stepped back' from economic 'free fall' 2009

  • They wait, hoping for a better day and an end to antibusiness pronouncements from the White House.

    The Fed Compounds Its Mistakes Allan H. Meltzer 2010

  • I would put good money that much of this work lies in the area of 'hate crime', as in recent months we have seen many pronouncements from the Home Office on these subjects, as well as well-publicised Metropolitan police offences against the 'problem'.

    May 22, 2005 Laban 2005

  • I would put good money that much of this work lies in the area of 'hate crime', as in recent months we have seen many pronouncements from the Home Office on these subjects, as well as well-publicised Metropolitan police offences against the 'problem'.

    Archive 2005-05-22 Laban 2005

  • I would put good money that much of this work lies in the area of 'hate crime', as in recent months we have seen many pronouncements from the Home Office on these subjects, as well as well-publicised Metropolitan police offences against the 'problem'.

    "Give Prisoners The Internet" Laban 2005

  • While church rhetoric often conflicted with the lived experience of Irish Newfoundland women, some impact was being felt by the latter decades of the period, as pronouncements from the pulpit and disciplinary mechanisms — such as shaming and denial of the sacraments — whittled away at plebeian women's sense of selfhood.

    Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

  • This is a maddeningly convoluted question — the scholar must distinguish ideological pronouncements from the implementation of policy; the acts of, say, frontline SS units from the plans and intentions of the Nazi leadership; the roots and manifestations of murderous anti-Bolshevism from those of murderous anti-Semitism (to give but a few examples).

    New & Noteworthy 2004

  • A thinking person's Matrix without the mind-numbingly indirect pronouncements from the Oracle.

    SF Movies You (Probably) Haven't Seen 2004

  • This is a maddeningly convoluted question — the scholar must distinguish ideological pronouncements from the implementation of policy; the acts of, say, frontline SS units from the plans and intentions of the Nazi leadership; the roots and manifestations of murderous anti-Bolshevism from those of murderous anti-Semitism (to give but a few examples).

    New & Noteworthy 2004

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