The sisters turned the house into one of Scotland's premier tourist attractions after they had to rely on paying visitors to afford the upkeep of the house.

Included among the latter are the area's five premier cru ( first growth ) red wines ( four from Médoc and one, Château Haut-Brion, from Graves ), established by the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855:

" The half-hearted invasion left Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev and his advisers with the impression that Kennedy was indecisive and, as one Soviet adviser wrote, " too young, intellectual, not prepared well for decision making in crisis situations ... too intelligent and too weak.

Initially led by John Haslet, Delaware provided one of the premier regiments in the Continental Army, known as the " Delaware Blues " and nicknamed the " Blue Hen's Chicks.

Fears that the DPP would one day take control of the legislature led then-President Lee Teng-hui to push through a series of amendments to strengthen presidential power ( for example, Taiwan's premier would no longer have to be confirmed by the Legislative Yuan ).

* Álex González ( 1998 – 2005 ) — Alex Gonzalez was one of the premier defensive shortstops in the game during his tenure with the Marlins, and provided a walk-off homerun in the 12th inning during Game 4 of the 2003 World Series.

on 7 May 1853, the Russians sent Prince Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov, one their premier statesmen to negotiate a settlement of the issue.

The French sent one of their premier ships-of-the-line, the Charlemagne to the Black Sea as a show of force.

A first baseman primarily for the Detroit Tigers, Greenberg was one of the premier power hitters of his generation.

During these first few years Hellas was one of three or four area teams playing mainly at a municipal level while fighting against city rivals Bentegodi to become the city's premier football outfit.

Following Chyngyshev's dismissal, Akayev dismissed the government and called upon the last communist premier, Apas Djumagulov, to form a new one.

Following Kulov's resignation, Akayev dismissed the government and called upon the last communist premier, Apas Djumagulov, to form a new one.

This led to the creation of what would become the New Democratic Party of Manitoba, one of the province's major political parties and currently in power, led by premier Greg Selinger.

Mormons, though honoring Joseph Smith as the first prophet in modern times, see him as just one in a long line of prophets, with Jesus Christ being the premier figure of the religion.

The party leadership under Awolowo disagreed and replaced Akintola as premier of the West with one of their own supporters.

The former Imperial Castle in Poznań | Imperial Castle is now one of Poznań's premier cultural-theatrical institutions.

The modern presidency holds the president as one of the nation's premier celebrities.

The premier must be a member of one of the two Houses of the Parliament of Western Australia ; by convention the premier is a member of the lower house, the Legislative Assembly.

The Constitution of Western Australia does not explicitly provide for a premier, and the office was not formally listed as one of the executive offices until the appointment of Ross McLarty in 1947.

Notable pub-rock venues include the Largs Pier Hotel and the Governor Hindmarsh Hotel in Adelaide, the Royal Antler Hotel in Narrabeen, Sydney and the Civic Hotel in Sydney's city centre, the famous Star Hotel in Newcastle NSW and the Station Hotel in Prahran, Melbourne, which was one of the premier pub-rock venues in Australia for more than two decades, Poyntons Carlton Club Hotel in Carlton Melbourne's first Sunday night Live pub-rock venue.

PAM and NRP then formed a coalition government, naming Kennedy Simmonds, a medical doctor and one of the founders of the PAM, premier ( Simmonds had won Bradshaw's former seat in a 1979 by-election ).

Symbolics also made significant advances in software technology, and offered one of the premier software development environments of the 1980s and 1990s, now sold commercially as Open Genera for Tru64 UNIX on the HP Alpha.

The University of Tulsa is noted for having one of the world's premier programs in petroleum engineering, and has distinguished programs in English, computer science, natural sciences, Clinical and Industrial / Organizational Psychology, and several engineering disciplines.

Stuyvesant High School moved to its present location near Battery Park City in 1992 and has been described as one of the nation's premier high schools with emphasis on science and mathematics.

Departments are divided into one or more arrondissements.

The winds of Provence are an important feature of the climate, particularly the mistral, a cold, dry wind which, especially in the winter, blows down the Rhone Valley to the Bouches-du-Rhône and the Var Departments, and often reaches over one hundred kilometres an hour.

Also, in 2003, the Federal Highway Administration announced that under one of its three Vital Few Objectives ( Environmental Stewardship and Streamlining ) they set the target of achieving CSS integration within all state Departments of Transportation by September 2007.

Cabot Fire and Police Departments say that this is one of the worst structure fires to have ever occurred in Cabot.

The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department has at least one deputy assigned here from the Central Station at all times ( with as-needed backup from the Colton and San Bernardino Police Departments, as well as deputies from nearby Loma Linda ), while the San Bernardino County Fire Department has a fire station on City Center Court.

NSA Mechanicsburg continues to serve as one of the Defense Departments major logistics sites.

The Mount Pleasant Police Department was featured in the November 1996 issue of Good Housekeeping as one of the Top Eight Suburban Police Departments in the nation.

Boyacá () is one of the 32 Departments of Colombia, and the remnant of one of the original nine states of the " United States of Colombia ".

The town is also home to one of the ten remaining Volunteer Fire Departments in New York City, Richmond Engine Company 1, which operates a 2005 American LaFrance Engine purchased through a federal home security grant.

: A collection of Departments reporting to one commander ( e. g., Military Division of the Mississippi, Military Division of the Gulf ).

A Minister of State () in Ireland ( also called a junior minister ) is of non-Cabinet rank attached to one or more Departments of State of the Government of Ireland and assists a Minister of the Government.

As one of the Law Officers ’ Departments, the SFO reports to the Attorney General of the UK.

At the time of Confederation, the province of Canada had two Crown Law Departments, one for Canada West ( now Ontario ) and one for Canada East ( now Quebec ).

The South was formed first, thus adopting a new flag: a red vertical band on the left, with a golden sun and four small stars above ( representing Arequipa, Ayacucho, Cuzco and Puno, the four Departments of the republic ), and the right side divided into an upper green band and a lower white one.

However, its population has one of the lowest standards of living of all Departments in Colombia.

AFGE has played a crucial role in the struggle for women's rights and civil rights in the federal sector, and was one of the first unions to establish a Women's Department and a Fair Practices Department, with the officer over those Departments holding a seat on the NEC and with Women's and Fair Practices Coordinators elected in each AFGE District since the early 1970s.

Unlike Lloyd George's War Cabinet, the members of this one were also heads of Government Departments.

The Commission consists of nine members from the U. S. House of Representatives, nine members from the United States Senate, and one member each from the Departments of State, Defense, and Commerce.

The Rouse Ball Professorship of Mathematics is one of the senior chairs in the Mathematics Departments at the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford.

At the end of 2008, Her Majesty the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh officially opened in Lincoln's Inn Fields a new £ 71 million state-of-the-art building housing the LSE's Departments of Law and Management, being the first time that LSE has re-located one of its major academic departments to actual frontage on the park.

It is headed by a Commander-in-Chief, elected annually, who oversees the operation of 26 Departments, ( each consisting of one or more states ), as well as a Department-at-Large, a National Membership-at-Large, and over 200 community-based Camps.

The Department of the Air Force ( DAF ) is one of the three Military Departments within the Department of Defense of the United States of America.