Radio reception is cut down by the shielding necessary to keep out radiation.

At a reception for new members of Congress, Oregon Democrat Maurine Neuberger, taking the Senate seat held by her husband Richard until his death last March, got a brotherly buss from Democratic Elder Statesman Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Ambassador-designate to the U.N..

Even the book review by the editors has more significance than the readership's reception.

His reception remained warmer in America than Britain, and he continued to publish novels and short stories, but by the late 1930s the audience for Milne's grown-up writing had largely vanished: he observed bitterly in his autobiography that a critic had said that the hero of his latest play (" God help it ") was simply " Christopher Robin grown up ... what an obsession with me children are become!

Hume was disappointed with the reception of the Treatise, which " fell stillborn from the press ," as he put it, and so tried again to disseminate his more developed ideas to the public by writing a shorter and more polemical work.

His reputation grew in the USA following the critical reception of his design for the Finnish Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair, described by Frank Lloyd Wright as a " work of genius ".

Along with the Bill of Rights 1689, it remains today one of the main constitutional laws governing the succession to not only the throne of the United Kingdom, but, following British colonialism, the resultant doctrine of reception, and independence, also to those of the other Commonwealth realms, whether by willing deference to the act as a British statute or as a patriated part of the particular realm's constitution.

In 1533, three rectors of Aegina were punished for their acts of injustice and we have a graphic account of the reception given by the Aeginetans to the captain of Nauplia, who came to hold an enquiry into the administration of these delinquents.

On 14 July 1879, another feast took place, with a semi-official aspect ; the events of the day included a reception in the Chamber of Deputies, organised and presided over by Léon Gambetta, a military review in Longchamp, and a Republican Feast in the Pré Catelan.

This solemn commitment tends to be referred to as the " Benedictine vow " and is the Benedictine antecedent and equivalent of the evangelical counsels professed by candidates for reception into a religious order.

In other cases, the new legislature felt it necessary to " dot i's and cross t's " by enacting an express reception statute, even if common law had been received during the colonial period.

For example, following the American Revolution in 1776, one of the first legislative acts undertaken by each of the newly independent states was to adopt a " reception statute " that gave legal effect to the existing body of English common law to the extent that American legislation or the Constitution had not explicitly rejected English law.

Some states enacted reception statutes as legislative statutes, while other states received the English common law through provisions of the state's constitution, and some by court decision.

" Thus, even when reception was effected by a constitution, the common law was still subject to alteration by a legislature's statute.

For example, a reception statute enacted by legislation in the state of Washington requires that " he common law, so far as it is not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States, or of the state of Washington nor incompatible with the institutions and condition of society in this state, shall be the rule of decision in all the courts of this state.

In the other five provinces and the three territories, reception was governed by reception statutes.

In the four Atlantic provinces ( Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador ), the reception of English law was automatic, under the principle set out by Blackstone relating to settled colonies.

In 1779 Banks, giving evidence before a committee of the House of Commons, had stated that in his opinion the place most eligible for the reception of convicts " was Botany Bay, on the coast of New Holland ".

Television was first received in Ireland from 1949, following the opening of high power BBC transmitters at Sutton Coldfield and later Holme Moss, giving marginal reception along parts of the East coast.

At the ' 95 Source Awards, the Death Row roster's performance garnered a poor reception from the mainly east coast audience ; Knight also made comments pertaining to Bad Boy Entertainment CEO Puff Daddy, sparking friction between the two labels ( and, later, the two entire coasts ).

With special equipment reception of Swedish terrestrial transmitters is possible even on some parts of the Finnish coast as well as the Polish and German coast closest to Sweden.

Two new ground stations for the data reception have been built, one on the east coast at Masstown, N. S., and the other at Aldergrove, B. C.

The channel is broadcast to 110, 000 people with the potential for broader reception along the east coast possibly reaching 500, 000 in the future.

The signal pattern generally follows the coast from the transmitter site in San Diego, with reception good to Santa Barbara and beyond.

The Baron de Poutrincourt, Intendant to the King of France in North America, had been on an expedition on the Atlantic coast to the coast of present-day Maine, and, on the occasion of his return to the fort at Port-Royal, the Order was founded at a glorious reception, the preparations for which reportedly involved all those remaining at Port-Royal.

Headwear is typically a black beret for daily duties, while a black or silver morion helmet with red, white, yellow and black, and purple ostrich feather is worn for ceremonial duties, the former for guard duty or drill ; the latter for high ceremonial occasions such as the annual swearing in ceremony or reception of foreign heads of state.

Reports diligently spread in Edessa during his absence of Ibas's heterodoxy made his reception so hostile that he was obliged to leave the town and request the Magister militum for a guard to protect him.

The suicide bomber managed to pass the security guard at the entrance to a hotel, then he walked through the lobby passing the reception desk and entered the hotel's crowded dining room.

RAF Wittering, with the guard room & reception behind the deactivated ' Gate Guardian ' Harrier aircraft.

Topham's heroism was acknowledged publicly with a parade and civic reception in Toronto on August 8, 1945 ; one hundred members of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion served as a guard of honour.

The device turns out to be a small transistor-type radio with remarkably clear reception ; their father sends a message to guard it carefully, so they hide it in the trunk of their car.

Whenever two or more standard broadcast stations operate simultaneously on the same or closely adjacent frequencies, each interferes to some extent with reception of the other.

An exhibition of Evelyn Cibula's paintings will open with a reception Nov. 5 at the Evanston Community center, 828 Davis St..

For reception, a local oscillator will typically restore the suppressed carrier so the signal can be demodulated with a product detector.

From 1900 on, thanks to the positive reception given to his ideas, Steiner focused increasingly on his work with the Theosophical Society becoming the secretary of its section in Germany in 1902.

Many smaller reception rooms are furnished in the Chinese regency style with furniture and fittings brought from the Royal Pavilion at Brighton and from Carlton House.

It also housed Station X, a secret radio intercept station, although interception was soon moved to a location with better reception.

When Canada achieved formal independence with the passage of the Canada Act 1982, no reception statutes were necessary for the decolonialisation process.

" No person shall, except under and in accordance with a radio authorization, install, operate or possess radio apparatus, other than ( b ) a radio apparatus that is capable only of the reception of broadcasting and that is not a distribution undertaking.

Justification ( sixth session ) was declared to be offered upon the basis of human cooperation with divine grace as opposed to the Protestant doctrine of passive reception of grace.

These organizations are in full communion with each other, so any priest of any of those churches may lawfully minister to any member of any of them, and no member of any is excluded from any form of worship in any of the others, including reception of the Eucharist.

Armstrong's research and experimentation with the Audion moved radio reception beyond the crystal set and spark-gap transmitters.

Extrasensory perception ( ESP ) involves reception of information not gained through the recognized physical senses but sensed with the mind.

His 2008 film The Sky Crawlers was met with similarly positive international reception.

At the reception, Charles finds himself seated at a table with several ex-girlfriends who relate embarrassing stories about his inability to be discreet, and afterwards bumps into Henrietta ( known among Charles ' friends as " Duckface "), with whom he had a difficult relationship.