The most solemn moment had arrived.

The occasion was solemn and charged with symbolism.

The solemn face that Alberto Korda caught in his photographs became tough and unsympathetic.

'Bless us, Lord!' slowly succeeding one another, and vibratingly resonant, came the solemn tones.

It is an onerous and solemn undertaking, uplifting one day and extremely frustrating the next.

Central banks could adjust them or abandon them at any time, violating their solemn promises.

This is a year of both widespread hunger and solemn promises by the rich countries.

On the way home the children were very quiet, feeling that something solemn had taken place.

Those wishing to receive Russian citizenship will swear the solemn oath after officials examine their documents.

The mood in the Castro, the heart of the LGBT movement, was vividly colorful, yet solemn.

1. Reaffirms the solemn proclamation that the peoples of our planet have a sacred right to peace

At the UN's Millennium Summit in September 2000, the world's leaders made solemn pledges to tackle global poverty.

The Sino Japanese War is a very solemn historic episode and it is a trauma for Chinese people.

Countries tempted to undermine these principles by failing to fulfill their solemn commitments only demonstrate their own lack of solidarity.

By making a solemn resolution and telling our family and close friends about it, we tilt the scales against succumbing to temptation.

The solemn Communist Manifesto announced the specter of the Great Utopia haunting Europe, but failed to warn us of the bloody tyranny.

This is a year of both widespread hunger and solemn promises by the rich countries. But emergency food aid is not enough.

At the polls, my countrymen conferred a solemn mandate on me to make democracy the means for eliminating corruption and alleviating poverty.

OBLONSKY, WITH THE SAME RATHER SOLEMN EXPRESSION with which he was wont to take the chair at Council meetings, entered Karenin's study.

How is your head better?' he said quietly, not wishing to see or understand the gloomy and solemn look on her face.

We aspire to a better tomorrow, a new Egypt and a second republic, Morsi said during a solemn ceremony shown live on state television.

Then the believers will say Are these the people who had sworn by God on solemn oath and said We are surely with you?

As voters in these countries are inundated with good intentions, ringing assurances, and solemn commitments, they will expect parties and candidates to follow through if they are elected.

But the trauma of a discrete regime change, a default of solemn official commitments, and the bandwagon momentum these events generate are avoided by the use of floating rates.

Today, Greece s European creditors seem ready to abandon their solemn pledges on the irrevocability of the euro in order to insist on collecting some crumbs from the country s pensioners.

Their uncle, John, Duke of Berry, secured a vow of solemn reconciliation, but three days later, on 23 November 1407 Louis was brutally assassinated in the streets of Paris.

In Kazakhstan's version the model also cuts a solemn figure during the 1930s when Kazakhstan, along with Ukraine, experienced the sharp end of a famine enforced by Stalinist agricultural policies.

My partner was a book of Romanian fairy tales with a hard green cover, which I had been given a few days before when I turned the solemn age of 9.

Tens of thousands of people gathered in Saint Peter's Square on Sunday morning, despite the cold and the rain, to take part in Solemn Mass with Pope Francis in celebration of Easter.

Nevertheless, the new government has expressed a solemn commitment to freedom of information and assembly, the release of all political prisoners, and free and internationally supervised presidential and legislative elections within six months.

I couldn't resist, and I got a nasty email from some environmental group saying, This is too serious and solemn to make fun of. You should be ashamed, please apologize on our website.

2. Requests the President of the General Assembly to hold a special solemn meeting of the General Assembly in the second week of May 2005 in commemoration of all victims of the war

But my joyful period was marred by solemn and morbid thoughts thoughts of walking through the prison's high security death row, as this was the only route to take me to the makeshift operating room.

Ellie still happily walks along the road paved with yellow bricks lazy Tolya Ryzhikov steals the magical matches and Malchish Kibalchish still hasn't told the cursed bourgeouins the Military Secret, such is his solemn word.

Karenin did not move, and did not change the direction in which he was looking, but his face suddenly assumed the solemn immobility of the dead, and that expression did not alter till they reached the house.

But as with many promises, America and other donor countries have so far failed to live up to their pledges. At the UN's Millennium Summit in September 2000, the world's leaders made solemn pledges to tackle global poverty.

I was alone in the universe, listening to a voice that was and wasn't mine. My partner was a book of Romanian fairy tales with a hard green cover, which I had been given a few days before when I turned the solemn age of 9.

Previously, parliamentarians were going to define the procedures for the law On Citizenship of the Russian Federation themselves, specifying that the ceremony should take place in a solemn atmosphere, in front of the state emblem and the Russian flag, and in the presence of a representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.