Its official spokespeople included wheelchair athlete Chantal Petitclerc.

The annexation of Mauretania, begun under Caligula, was completed after the defeat of rebel forces, and the official division of the former client kingdom into two Imperial provinces.

Traditionally these have been interpreted as examples of government hostility toward commerce, but more recent studies, which use source material such as magistrate diaries and genealogical records, suggest that merchants in fact had a powerful impact on government policies and that the division between the world of the merchant and the world of the official was far more porous than traditionally believed.

The division into religious bodies was on the basis of the official religion of the state, and not of its rulers.

The region is not an official administrative unit, but has been traditionally used as the regional division of Japan in a number of contexts: for example, maps and geography textbooks divide Japan into the eight regions, weather reports usually give the weather by region, and many businesses and institutions use their home region as part of their name ( Kinki Nippon Railway, Chūgoku Bank, Tohoku University, etc .).

In 2005, the division changed their official name to Sega Studio USA.

They are numbered clockwise and are further divided into neighborhoods ( cartiere ), which are not an official administrative division:

On August 2, 1963, the second Gilson Act entered into force, fixing the division of Belgium into four language areas: a Dutch, a French and a German language area, and Brussels as a bilingual area with both French and Dutch as its official languages.

* Census division, an official term in Canada and the United States

The current official division of Catalonia into comarques originates in an order of the semi-autonomous Catalan government under the Spanish Republic in 1936.

As a result, some revisions to the official division were made in 1988, adding Pla de l ' Estany, Pla d ' Urgell and Alta Ribagorça in 1990, when some borders were adjusted.

When Jones announced on February 24, 2004 that he would return to competing in the light heavyweight division, the WBA took the interim tag off of Ruiz and he became an official two-time world heavyweight champion.

He was, however, ranked # 10 among Oscar De La Hoya's challengers at the welterweight division after his win over Flores, making him an official world title challenger once again.

* Competing in the men's division III club level bracket, the Mendocino Steam Donkeys rugby union team, based in the Ukiah area are the first official NCRFU team in the county.

The division continued in the official name of the provincial districts of Swedish and Norwegian Hisingen or " Svenska Hisingens härad " and " Norska Hisingens härad ", until 1681 when they were renamed as the Eastern and Western districts.

In the Australian team, there was a division between the players who stayed loyal to the official XI and the Packer rebels.

A division of Sony Pictures Digital, SoapCity was the home to the official websites for the American daytime soap operas Days of our Lives and The Young and the Restless.

According to the Party's official historian this period was marked by a growing division between the practitioners of cultural politics – heavily inspired by the writings of Antonio Gramsci and party's powerful industrial department which advocated a policy of militant labourism.

In 2000, the Supreme Court of Mississippi ruled that the Mississippi flag, a source of division among white and black Mississippians, was not official.

When the proposed government of universal Christendom by five patriarchal sees ( Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem, known as the pentarchy ), under the auspices of a single universal empire, was formulated in the legislation of Emperor Justinian I ( 527-565 ), especially in his Novella 131, and received formal ecclesiastical sanction at the Council in Trullo ( 692 ), the name " patriarch " became the official one for the Bishops of these sees, and the title " Exarch " remained the proper style of the metropolitans who ruled over the three remaining ( political ) dioceses of Diocletian's division of the Eastern Prefecture, namely the Exarchs of Asia ( at Ephesus ), of Cappadocia and Pontus ( at Caesarea ), and of Thrace ( at Heraclea Sintica ).

A 1924 document found in the archives of the German Oriental Company recalls the 20 January 1913 meeting between Ludwig Borchardt and a senior Egyptian official to discuss the division of the archeological finds of 1912 between Germany and Egypt.

Later on this division came to be known as OVRA, although its existence remained secret until December 1930 when the official press agency Stefani released a statement quoting the OVRA as a " special section " of the police.

In the Communist Party's official discourse, the " generational " division and identification of the " core leader " for each of the first, second and third generations was set down during the leadership of Jiang Zemin.

Jiang's successors have maintained this generational division, but have retreated from identifying a " core leader " in the fourth generation, and the succeeding general secretary Hu Jintao has never been identified in official announcements as the " core " of the fourth generation.

The official position of the UPCI is that this division centered on Christology.

Robertson and addressed to Harry Schlaudeman, a high-ranking official in the department's Latin American division — the August document described the Horman case as " bothersome ," given reports in the press and Congressional investigations charging that the affair involved " negligence on our part, or worse, complicity in Horman's death.

Governor Alfred E. Smith was the official host at the children's party.

A politician was approached by a man seeking the office of a minor public official who had just died.

The radical nature of the innovation in the Congo was not emphasized in the official announcements.

Typical of such an experience was the occasion of a somewhat formal official welcome in the offices of the Union of Soviet Artists.

He was the official procurer for King Farouk, now in exile.

Although there was no doubt in my mind and we've been handling it as one I'm glad to have it made official ''.

But as the tour reached Pensacola a month ago, Player was leading Palmer in official winnings by a few hundred dollars, and the rest of the field was somewhere off in nowhere.

Then his son did something '' -- Rachel threw up her hands -- `` I don't know what, but something, to an official here -- it was during the Mandate -- and the son was imprisoned.

The President said the primary goal of his actions as president ( he used the first person pronoun and explicitly refers to his " official duty ") was preserving the Union:

Using former slaves in the military was official government policy after the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation.

It was in use during the entire history of Hungary, albeit not as an official writing system.

An the other hand, the armed forces of the MPLA ( now the official armed forces of the Angolan state ) and of UNITA fought each other until the leader of UNITA, Jonas Savimbi, was killed in action, in 2002.

He was the official world champion from 1975 to 1985 when he was defeated by Garry Kasparov.

The official winners were Peugeot and Panhard as cars were judged on their speed, handling and safety characteristics, and De Dion's steam car needed a stoker which was forbidden.

The official winner was Paul Koechlin in a Peugeot.

However, during the tour of Australia in 2006 / 7, the MCC official accompanying the urn said the veil legend had been discounted, and it was now " 95 % certain " that the urn contains the ashes of a cricket bail.

There was more chopping and changing in the teams, given that there was no official board of selectors for each country ( in 1887 – 88, two separate English teams were on tour in Australia ) and popularity with the fans varied.

Renan's head was turned away from the building, while Athena, beside him, was depicted raising her arm, which was interpreted as indicating a challenge to the church during an anti-clerical phase in French official culture.

On 10 September 2009, following an Internet campaign, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an official public apology on behalf of the British government for " the appalling way he was treated ".