Articulate

Usage examples of declare.

The Safavids, who were the first to declare Shia Islam the official religion of Iran, sought to control Iraq both because of the Shia holy places at An Najaf and Karbala and because Baghdad, the seat of the old Abbasid Empire, had great symbolic value.

I had repeatedly declared, during the preceding two years, both before and since his death, my highest admiration for the intellectual and moral qualities of my beloved friend, and my belief that he would have a very high place in history among the best and ablest men of the country.

In the acta of the convent which began to be recorded that night, the servant declared that a supernatural force had thrown her to the ground.

Strongly opposed to the existing policy of short-term enlistments, Adams declared himself adamantly in favor of a regular army.

Before turning in, when Adams moved to close the window against the night air, Franklin objected, declaring they would suffocate.

John Adams, the paper now declared, was clearly preferable to Washington.

If Adams lacked the fortitude to take the step, then Congress would, they declared.

As early as May, Hamilton had launched a letter campaign to his High Federalist coterie declaring Adams unfit and incapable as President, a man whose defects of character were guaranteed to bring certain ruin to the party.

When, after election day, it became known that in Quincy, Braintree, and Weymouth, John Quincy had received every vote cast for the presidency, Adams declared it one of the most gratifying events of his life.

The Legio Martia had declared for Octavian, had turned off the Adriatic road and was heading for Rome on the Via Valeria, thinking that Octavian was still in Rome.

Moscow declared it would pull its military forces out of Afghanistan within the next nine months.

Indeed, the English king, George III, in 1763 forbade colonization--as Louis XIV at one time had wished to prevent it--beyond the Alleghany Mountains without his special permission, and, moreover, it was hardly more than ten years after the titular transfer to England that the colonists declared themselves independent.

These plausible explanations were not without their effect, and when Grimbart went on to declare that, ever since Nobel proclaimed a general truce and amnesty among all the animals of the forest, Reynard had turned hermit and spent all his time in fasting, almsgiving, and prayer, the complaint was about to be dismissed.

I have become so fond that Aman has declared them my talisman, in particular.

On the visa-screen Andas saw the mottled shape of what the tape declared to be Inyanga, though he could not recognize any feature.