pronouncement

Preposition: of

• decree: Once the certificate has been issued, the case will be placed in a list for the pronouncement of a decree nisi.
• divorce: Does it talk about two pronouncements of divorce ( and then a third )?
• scientist: At the same time one has to wonder at the pronouncements of some scientists, such that the public looses credibility in them.
• decision: Normally, the University would not make any public pronouncements of decisions of Committees of Inquiry.

Converse of object

• recall: Here, it will be useful to recall some pronouncements of the Church's Magisterium on Marian devotions.
• make: They have no business making pronouncements on the future of Kosova or any other part of the Balkans.
• give: NGOs have underlined the irony in these pronouncements given the US ' abysmal record on aid.
• issue: When he issued this pronouncement Saddam also called on other oil producing countries in the region do the same.
• hear: We were especially amazed at hearing the official pronouncements of the Soviet bureaucrats.
• find: And I found a rather authoritative pronouncement that it was caused by the recovery from polio.

Adjective modifier

• papal: But it should be noted that all these papal pronouncements have been rescinded by the Second Vatican Council.
• judicial: Some of the recent judicial pronouncements cited in this book would have been unthinkable ten years ago.
• definite: However, there is still a lot of work to be done before I can make more definite pronouncements.
• definitive: A reply is not, and is not intended to be, a definitive pronouncement on a customer's financial well-being.
• bold: M Raymond Bellour, the visiting British Film Institute " Research Fellow " , introduced this season with a bold pronouncement.
• official: Lockheed's official public pronouncements on UFOs had been negative.

Preposition: on

• subject: Her music had an appeal that spread across racial barriers, despite her frequent controversial pronouncements on the subject.
• issue: But the emphasis in his pronouncements on environ-mental issues, as on other matters, has been presentational.

Noun used with modifier

• policy: Policy pronouncements by high levels of government are not a sufficient basis for reform without a supportive policy context.
• government: The latest Government pronouncement stipulated that a " Line in the Sand " had been drawn at Oxford.