Anecdotically, Ignasi Guardans was in Mumbai during the 26 November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, as the Head of a 36 strong European Parliament Delegation.

Wildcat and The Unsinkable Molly Brown were originals, but pretty bad, leaving top honors again to an import -- the jaunty and charmingly French Irma La Douce.

In May 2007 the executor of his widow's estate, French foreign minister Roland Dumas, was convicted of illegally selling Giacometti's works to a top auctioneer.

The slab on top carries the inscription (" Here lies a French soldier who died for the fatherland 1914 – 1918 ").

The French government awarded him the Legion of Honor, the country's top civilian honor, as a Chevalier in 2002 and then an Officier in 2007, while that same year, The Guardian described Lynch as " the most important director of this era ".

Traditionally, they are served in a cornet de frites ( French ) or frietzak / fritzak ( Dutch ), a white cardboard cone, then wrapped in paper, with a good spoonful of sauce on the top.

An influential formulation of the hierarchy of genres, confirming the history painting at the top, was made in 1667 by André Félibien, a historiographer, architect and theoretician of French classicism became the classic statement of the theory for the 18th century: Celui qui fait parfaitement des païsages est au-dessus d ' un autre qui ne fait que des fruits, des fleurs ou des coquilles.

A bow at the top displayed the English name (" League of Nations "), while another at the bottom showed the French (" Société des Nations ").

Routes Nationale are marked with the traditional French Milestones: a white tablet with a red top, marked with the route number.

Franco-Nigerien relations continue to be close, with France as Niger's top export partner ( in value ), and the French government being almost entirely dependent upon Niger for the Uranium which fuels its extensive Nuclear Power system, mined in the northern town of Arlit.

After returning from Copenhagen, Abel applied for a government scholarship in order to visit top mathematicians in Germany and France ; but instead, he was granted 200 speciedaler yearly for two years, to stay in Cristiania and study German and French.

As with the Levantine Special Troops, French officers held the top posts, but as Syrian independence approached, the ranks below major were gradually filled by Syrian officers who had graduated from the Military Academy at Homs, which had been established by the French during the 1930s.

The top 5 largest ancestries include German ( 23. 4 %), Irish ( 10. 8 %), Polish ( 10. 1 %), English ( 6. 0 %), and French ( 4. 6 %).

In 1810 French Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, one of Napoleon's top generals, was elected Crown Prince Charles by the Riksdag.

The letter confirms there is a spy within the top French army staff.

After Biot's departure, the political ferment caused by the entrance of the French into Spain extended to the Balearic Islands, and the population suspected Arago's movements and his lighting of fires on the top of Mount Galatzó ( Catalan: Mola de l ' Esclop ) as the activities of a spy for the invading army.

She learned Italian, from Metastasio, on top of the necessary French and German, as well as Austrian history and French history, though from an Austrian perspective.

The top soccer club is the Sporting Toulon Var, currently playing at the fourth level of French Football ( Championnat de France Amateurs ).

Davenport teamed with Nicole Arendt to reach the French Open semifinals, where they lost to the top seeded team of Novotná and Arantxa Sánchez Vicario.

More precisely, a hip hop built of French language lyrics laid on top of traditional break beats and elaborate samples.

Bilingual road signs in Quimper, Finistère | Quimper ( French on top )

Telecom Bretagne ( formerly known as ENST Bretagne ) is one of the top French grande école and a high standard research centre providing high level training in Information Technologies and telecommunications.

Colbert had a supporting role rather than top billing in the film, which also featured a number of well known French cinema performers.

It is a truism of business that no business can be better than its board of directors and its top management.

She was still in the play for pay business when she died, a top trollop who had given the world's oldest profession one of its rare flashes of glamour.

* Business leaders which include successful entrepreneurs, financially successful investors, and top level CEO's of major corporations that regularly dominate the global business scene, top the daily business headlines and coverage of financial markets have a strong likelihood to become celebrities.

Alumni of Columbia have occupied top positions in Wall Street and the rest of the business world.

A common variant is the " business card " CD, a single with portions removed at the top and bottom making the disk resemble a business card.

However, the HP EliteBook line became the top of the business notebook lineup while the HP Compaq B series became its middle business line.

The protesters have proposed that authorities " lower business taxes as a top up to company finances " to pay for the € 200 pay raises.

By this time he was getting paid a million dollars per film, $ 200, 000 less than top star Paul Newman was making at the time ; yet he was ambivalent about the film business, even with its financial rewards:

The 2008 Princeton Review Best 290 Business Schools names Millsaps ' Else School of Business as one of the nation's top business schools and ranked Millsaps number 3 for " Best Classroom Experience ".

Strong economic growth potential, a large domestic market, EU membership, and a high level of political stability are the top reasons U. S. and other foreign companies do business in Poland.

According to William A. Niskanen, one of the architects of Reaganomics, " Reagan delivered on each of his four major policy objectives, although not to the extent that he and his supporters had hoped ", and notes that the most substantial change was in the tax code, where the top marginal individual income tax rate fell from 70. 1 % to 28. 4 %, and there was a " major reversal in the tax treatment of business income ", with effect of " reducing the tax bias among types of investment but increasing the average effective tax rate on new investment ".

Milošević didn't respond to the platform considering it unconstitutional as political relations within the federal state got strained to a maximum especially against the backdrop of the assassination wave of figures from top political, criminal, and state business circles in both republics ( Željko " Arkan " Ražnatović, Pavle Bulatović, Žika Petrović, and Goran Žugić as well two attempts on the life of opposition politician Vuk Drašković ).

The 2009 U. S. News & World Report ranking of undergraduate business programs puts Albers in the top 30 % of AACSB accredited schools and one of the top 20 private business schools in the U. S. Albers's part-time MBA program has been recognized as one of the top 50 in the nation, according to the latest issue of U. S. News & World Reports “ America's Best Graduate Schools 2009 .” The Executive Leadership Program was ranked by CRO Corporate Responsibility Officer magazine among the top 10 executive training programs in corporate responsibility.

I had been among the top third in my class at N.Y.U., had wanted desperately to go to medical school, but I'd run out of money and energy at the same time.

In the wake of John Byrne's reboot of Superman continuity in The Man of Steel, many traditional aspects of Clark Kent were dropped in favor of giving him a more aggressive and extroverted personality ( although not as strong as Lois ), including such aspects as making Clark a top football player in high school, along with being a successful author and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer.

Of those admitted whose high schools reported a class rank, 94 % were ranked in the top 10 % of their high school graduating class, 40 % were valedictorians, and 10 % were salutatorians.

The " beliefs " of school districts are optimistic that quite literally " all students will succeed ", which in the context of high school graduation examination in the United States, all students in all groups, regardess of heritage or income will pass tests that in the introduction typically fall beyond the ability of all but the top 20 to 30 percent of students.

At the high school level, it is not uncommon to see multi-purpose goal posts that include football goal posts at the top and a soccer net at the bottom ; these are usually seen at smaller schools and in multi-purpose stadiums where facilities are used for multiple sports.

With considerable cost and effort, Indiana boasts nine of the ten largest high school gyms in the country, and a purported eighteen of the top twenty.

Krush attended Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn, whose chess team is considered by many to be one of the top high school teams in the U. S.

She grew up in Goleta, California, and graduated from Dos Pueblos High School in 1968 in the top 10 percent of her class and was the student body treasurer of her high school.

In the 2012 U. S. News graduate school rankings, Stanford also placed in the top 5 for every discipline in which it was ranked, except industrial engineering, where it placed, and fine arts, where it placed.

After graduating at the top of her class from Starfleet Academy's medical school, Beverly married Lieutenant Jack Crusher, who served under Captain Jean-Luc Picard on the USS Stargazer.

The first statewide competition for high school students was held at Taos High School in 1993, with the top teams and individual participants awarded plaques.

Albers ' faculty received an “ A ” rating from students and recruiters ranked Albers as the top school in the nation.

It's the only Swedish school on BusinessWeeks top 60 list of design school in the world.

" The UCSF Medical Center is consistently ranked among the top 10 hospitals in the United States by U. S. News & World Report, who also ranked UCSF ’ s medical school specialty program in AIDS medical care first in the country.

The professional schools of the University of California, San Francisco are among the top in the nation, according to current ( 2012 ) US News and World Report graduate school and other rankings.

It is the only medical school in the nation to be ranked in the top 5 in both the research and primary care categories.

In addition, the magazine ranked UCSF in the top 10 in seven of the eight medical school specialty programs assessed, including first in AIDS medical care, second in women's health, and third in internal medicine.

The California Master Plan for Higher Education of 1960 established that UC select from the top 12. 5 % ( one-eighth ) of graduating high school seniors in California.

# Identification by UC as being ranked in the top 4 percent of the student's high school class at the end of his or her junior year (" eligible in the local context " or ELC ).

Eligibility in the Local Context, commonly referred to as ELC, is met by applicants ranked in the top 4 % ( 7 % as of 2011 ) of their high school class in terms of performance on an 11-unit pattern of UC-approved high school courses.

According to Canadian Lawyer Magazine, the law school ranks among the top five in Canada.

The Boston Globe wrote that " if there's one school that can lay claim to educating the nation's top national leaders over the past three decades, it's Yale.