In the most solemn of ceremonies, for example at the coronation of a new Emperor, the Emperor's subjects would undertake the ceremony of the " three kneelings and nine kowtows ", the so-called grand kowtow, which involves kneeling from a standing position three times, and each time, performing the kowtow three times while kneeling.

The Eternal Buddha of the Lotus Sutra was revealed in an imagery of a grand ceremony, which Nichiren regarded as the central doctrine of the Lotus Sutra.

Topped out on 2 September 1998, the Sony Centre was formally opened on 14 June 2000 ( although many of its public attractions had been up and running since 20 January ), in another grand ceremony with more music-this time with Sony's Japanese Chairman Norio Ohga himself conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

* August 10 – At the Vienna Hofburg, the grand opening ceremony is held for the Imperial Natural History Museum (), begun in 1871 ; from August 13 to the end of December, the museum counts 175, 000 visitors.

This was completed in time for a second inauguration ceremony on 6 October 1963, with Pierre Messmer, Minister of Armies, Jean Sainteny, Minister of veterans, Jacques Foccart, secretary general of the Communauté et les affaires africaines et malgaches, and General Georges Catroux, grand chancellor of the Légion d ' honneur.

Gabriela Montero at a Steinway grand piano at the Inauguration of Barack Obama | inauguration ceremony for US President Barack Obama on January 20, 2009

The divorce ceremony took place on 10 January 1810 and was a grand but solemn social occasion, and each read a statement of devotion to the other.

Alfonso later held another investiture in 1135 in a grand ceremony reasserting his claims to the Imperial title.

The airport opened on December 10, 1948, in a grand ceremony.

The library held its grand opening ceremony on Tuesday July 26, 2005.

Although the bear stew is the big attraction to the festival, there is also a kiddies parade, grand parade, royal court ceremony, bands, dances, slow-pitch baseball, and many other events in all three days.

The current branch building opened for regular business in Monday April 28, 2003, with its grand opening ceremony on the previous day.

In years past, prospective grand final players have attended the ceremony in person.

However non-Victorian grand finalists have typically refused to attend the ceremony in Melbourne due to the inconvenience of travel in such an important week.

On the 15th day of each month, the minor mountain god is worshipped, and a grand ceremony is held on the 15th day of the 7th lunar month to venerate the Great Mountain God.

The grand opening ceremony was held on 23 April 1976, and the building was opened to the public two days afterwards on 25 April 1976.

The grand opening ceremony was open to the public, which featured various festivities, including a pedestrian tunnel walk.

Harbhajan Singh and Geeta Basra would be getting married in September 2012. The ceremony is expected to be a grand affair and would be held in Yorkshire England.

Captain Gloval agreed to this and organized a grand wedding ceremony not only to further influence the enemy certain to be observing this, but also to rally his crew and passengers to strive for a peaceful settlement of the war.

* August 10-At the Vienna Hofburg, the grand opening ceremony is held for the Imperial Natural History Museum (), begun in 1871 ; from August 13 to the end of December, the museum counts 175, 000 visitors.

Martina, second wife of late Heraclius and mother of Heraklonas, demanded imperial power for herself ( although most likely with intended favor for her son ), and declared this in a grand ceremony held in the Hippodrome of Constantinople which was attended by the Senate, other high officials and people of Constantinople.

Every year the club hosts a two week long ( three weekends ) camp at Bohemian Grove, which is notable for its illustrious guest list and its eclectic Cremation of Care ceremony which mockingly burns " Care " ( the normal woes of life ) with grand pageantry, pyrotechnics and brilliant costumes, all done at the edge of a lake and at the base of a forty-foot ' stone ' owl statue.

The newly renovated Jack V. Doland Field House, which now houses offices for all of the football coaches, equipment manager, conditioning and strength coach and members of the athletic administration as well as the ticket office, held its official grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremony September 9, 2011.

With dizzying speed, Colin meets and weds Chloé in a grand ceremony.

And of course the Soviet threat was responsible for NATO, the grand alliance of the Atlantic nations.

Then epistolatory me was a foreign correspondent dispatching exciting cables and communiques, full of dash and wit and glamor, quoting from the books I read, imitating the grand styles of the authors recommended by a teacher in whose special, after-school class I was enrolled.

In the grand court of the Palace, notable for its tiers of Moorish galleries that looked down on the maelstrom of vehicles below, Vernon's station was at the entrance.

This time, it was so grand ; ;

Karns said it was a `` wrongful act '' for Wexler to take statements `` privately and outside of the grand jury room ''.

She played with style and a touch of the grand manner, and every piece she performed was especially effective in its closing measures.

Then Rudy Bond was simply grand as Ben, the distraught Republican Party district chieftain.

He thought that the image of " Apollo riding his chariot across the Sun was appropriate to the grand scale of the proposed program.

Ahmed II's best known act was to confirm Mustafa Köprülü as grand vizier.

The whole matter was solemnly submitted to a grand council of prelates, senators, ministers and other dignitaries on 13 June 1718.

The Amiga brand was then sold to another PC manufacturer, Gateway 2000, which had announced grand plans for it.

On his return to Nuremberg, Dürer worked on a number of grand projects with religious themes, including a crucifixion scene and a Sacra Conversazione, though neither was completed.

In 1962, Giacometti was awarded the grand prize for sculpture at the Venice Biennale, and the award brought with it worldwide fame.

The Swedenborgian church was so grand that it was considered to be the ‘ Cathedral ’ of that denomination.

In October 1747 a loya jirga ( grand council ) concluded near the city of Kandahar with Ahmad Shah Durrani being selected as the new leader of the Afghans, thus the Durrani dynasty was founded.

His importance is proven once more by the grand funeral given to him by his people: his funeral at sea with many weapons and treasures shows he was a great soldier and an even greater leader to his people.

During grand jury testimony in December 2003 – which was illegally leaked to the San Francisco Chronicle and published in December 2004 – Giambi allegedly admitted to using many different steroids, including fertility drugs ( which could account for his declining health in the past few years ).

Ottoman authority in Anatolia was indeed seriously threatened during this period, and at one point Bayezid II's grand vizier, Ali Pasha, was killed in battle against rebels.

On November 15, 2007, attention was brought once again to Barry Bonds as he was indicted by a federal grand jury for perjury and obstruction of justice in connection to his testimony before the grand jury regarding the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative ( BALCO ), a San Francisco Bay area lab known to be involved in the distribution of steroids to professional athletes.