* Eight technical commissions provide technical recommendations for WMO and the national services.

Eight years later, in 1879, it was restored as France's national anthem, and has remained so ever since.

It has also garnered considerable national attention from its recent success in these sports: in particular, three-time Division I NCAA Football champion Appalachian State Mountaineers, who stunned the fifth-ranked Michigan Wolverines 34 – 32 on September 1, 2007 ; and from the Davidson Wildcats, who reached the Elite Eight in the 2008 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament by upsetting power programs Gonzaga ( a mid-major school which became a power program in the 2000s ), Georgetown and Wisconsin.

In 2009, Inverness was awarded the national title of " City of the Year " by the Veterans honor organization the Forty & Eight.

Today's Princelings include the children of the Eight Elders and other recent senior national and provincial leaders.

Eight years after the establishment of the German Football Association ( DFB ), the first official match of the Germany national football team was played on 5 April 1908, against Switzerland in Basel, with the Swiss winning 5 – 3.

Kunstler gained national renown for defending the " Chicago Seven " ( originally " Chicago Eight "), in a five month trial in 1969 – 1970, against charges of conspiring to incite riots in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

King Sejong established the Joseon Dynasty's first national gazetteer in 1432, called the " Sinch ' an p ' aldo " (' Newly Compiled Geographic Treatise on the Eight Circuits ').

Following their first ever NCAA tournament game victory over DePaul 2-0, the Braves continued on a magical run to the Elite Eight by defeating seven-time national champion Indiana University on penalty kicks ( 5-4 ) and the University of Maryland in overtime, both on the road.

As the ranking Democratic member of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Ruppersberger is a member of the Gang of Eight, a group of the Congressional leaders whom the President is required to keep informed about national intelligence activities.

The arena has also hosted many major national sporting events including the 1999, 2003, and 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball regional first and second rounds, the 2009 and 2012 Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight, the 1998 Frozen Four, the 2004 Frozen Four, and the 2006 Women's Final Four.

Eight national teams contested the finals tournament.

More recently, Gonzaga's rise to national prominence after being invited to the NCAA Tournament every year since their Cinderella run to the " Elite Eight " in 1999 has helped make the WCC a household name.

Eight clubs, the established norm for a national league, was a prohibitively high threshold for a new venture.

Current Horizon League members have also made previous Sweet 16, Elite Eight, and Final Four appearances, including a national championship for Loyola in the 1963 NCAA Tournament.

Eight governments have been formed by the Croatian Democratic Union, three by the Social Democratic Party of Croatia and one was a national unity government ( formed during the Croatian War of Independence's peak ).

The term " Elite Eight " refers to the final eight teams in the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship or the NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship ; and, thus, represents the regional finals, or national quarterfinals.

The Elite Eight also represents the halfway mark of the men's tournament since each qualifying team must win three rounds ( games ) to reach the national quarterfinals, with three rounds remaining to reach and win the national championship game.

Eight seats in the national assembly are reserved for Algerians abroad.

Eight areas in the country have been designated national parks, and the landscape in these areas is afforded extra protection from development.

Eight years after their first performance in the well-acclaimed radio show Izštekani ( Unplugged ), hosted by Jure Longyka on national radio, Siddharta were invited to perform live for a second time.

In the 2004 – 05 season, Wisconsin advanced to the " Elite Eight " in the NCAA Tournament, losing to the eventual national champion, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tar Heels.

The song is also played during television timeouts of Davidson College men's basketball games and gained national attention during the school's 2008 run to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament.

Augusta State's men's basketball program reached the Division II Elite Eight in Springfield, MA three consecutive years from 2008-2010, advancing as far as the national title game in ' 08.

Eight teams participated in the first tournament: Australia, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, and the West Indies ( the six Test nations at the time ), together with Sri Lanka and a composite team from East Africa.

Eight teams from each conference were seeded 1-8 based on their regular season records.

Several teams now benefit from the involvement of Tom Walkinshaw Racing, Triple Eight Race Engineering and Prodrive.

* Triple Eight Race Engineering – from 2013, Red Bull will sponsor one of the top V8 Supercar teams.

The eight original teams and their counterparts in the " Classic Eight " were:

Eight former members of the Islanders have been inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, seven of whom — Al Arbour, Mike Bossy, Clark Gillies, Denis Potvin, Billy Smith, Bill Torrey and Bryan Trottier — were members of all four Cup winning teams.

Currently, in the NRL, eight teams qualify for the finals ; starting with the 2012 season, the system was changed from the McIntyre Final Eight to the same system used by the AFL.

From the conference's formation until the 2010 – 11 season, the Big 12 was split into two divisions for most major sports: the Texas schools plus Oklahoma and Oklahoma State made up the South Division, and the remaining six former Big Eight Conference teams ( Colorado, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, and Nebraska ) constituted the North Division.

They also provided a level of cosmopolitan international competition, which tended not to exist in rugby before the first Rugby World Cup in 1987, especially since was not seen as one of the " Big Eight ", and other than some involvement with, the Commonwealth teams tended to be notoriously clannish.

Eight teams qualify for the Division II ICT, where they compete alongside other D-2 teams in a manner analogous to that of D-1 Undergraduate teams.

By 1975, the game was able to attract Big Eight co-champion Nebraska to play undefeated Arizona State in a matchup of top-five teams.

Eight teams entered the water polo event, with one withdrawing before competition.

Eight teams have won back-to-back championships ; the Springfield Indians of 1960-62 is the only team to have won three straight Calder Cup championships.

Eight teams are in the Premier Division, and contest for the Currie Cup trophy.

Eight matches were played between the two teams in the early 1980s — all awarded Test status.

Eight teams come with the game and six more teams can be created.

1947 — Eight teams were divided into two, four-team, single-elimination playoffs.

Eight teams began the playoffs with the four finalists decided by a best-of-three district format.

Eight teams were ever-present in the division for the 30 years of its existence.

Eight teams entered ( including two from France ), although Hungary and Bohemia withdrew before the start.

Eight NCAA Division I college baseball teams met after having played their way through a 64-team bracket to play at historic Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium.