In 1998, Lippa was commissioned by the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver to create an anthem for a concert celebrating Israel's 50th birthday, to be sung by 350 singers and conducted by Sergiu Comissiona of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.

In Los Angeles an Israel Leadership Club was organized and has been active in support activities for Israel, most recently in 2008, it sponsored with the local Jewish Federation and Israeli consulate a concert in support for the embattled population suffering rocket attacks of Sderot, Israel where the three frontrunners for the U. S. president, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John McCain greeted the attendees by video and expressed their support for the residents of Sderot.

The Orchestra performs at a number of concert venues both in Tasmania and interstate, including Federation Concert Hall, Tolosa Park in Glenorchy, Princess Theatre and Albert Hall both in Launceston, Burnie Town Hall, Devonport Entertainment Centre, Wrest Point Entertainment Centre in Sandy Bay and the City Recital Hall in Sydney.

" The Russian Orthodox Church and the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia ( FJCR ) described Madonna's performance as amoral, and urged all members to boycott her upcoming concert in Moscow.

In a hostile environment ripe for provocation, the Mine Owner's Association and the Citizens ' Alliance called a public meeting in a vacant lot across from the Western Federation of Miners union hall in Victor.

On Christmas Eve 1913, the Western Federation of Miners organized a party for strikers and their families at the Italian Benevolent Society hall in Calumet.

Currently, it is an official ceremonial hall in the residence of the President of the Russian Federation and thus closed to the public.

She became the first Canadian and first woman to be named to the hall by the Federation Internationale de Luttes Associees ( FILA ), wrestling's international and Olympic governing body.

After all that, on 13 December in the big hall of ministry in affairs of the youth, sport, and tourism the Council of the Federation in one voice accepted the following declaration:

The WCW Hall of Fame was the second hall of fame established to honor professional wrestlers, after the creation of the World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ) Hall of Fame in February 1993.

The station features Donnybrook stone construction on the façade with red face brick infill panels on a Donnybrook stone plinth, in Federation Free Classical style featuring a rare example of a large train hall roof.

In the 1890s, the larger Royal Steam Roller Flour Mill was built on the flats next to the new railway that connected the district to Perth, and the town was slowly developing, and although it was still a comparatively small village by the time of Federation in 1901, it had several churches, municipal offices and hall, a variety of shops, two hotels, a public school and a railway station.

In 1871, Dominica became part of the Leeward Island Federation.

Shortly thereafter, Dominica was transferred from the Leeward Island Administration and was governed as part of the Windwards until 1958, when it joined the short-lived West Indies Federation.

The island is divided into six municipalities with their respective city councils which form part of the FECAM ( Federation of Canarian Municipalities ).

* In Bosnia and Herzegovina, a municipality in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( općina or opština ) is part of a canton ( kanton ).

In colonial times it was known as British Central Africa and Nyasaland and was at one time part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.

French Sudan was administered as part of the Federation of French West Africa and supplied labor to France ’ s colonies on the coast of West Africa.

In July of the same year, in Seoul, South Korea, the Member Churches of the World Methodist Council ( WMC ) voted to approve and sign a " Methodist Statement of Association " with the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification ( JDDJ ), the agreement which was reached and officially accepted in 1999 by the Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation and which proclaimed that " Together we confess: By grace alone, in faith in Christ ’ s saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping and calling us to good works ... as sinners our new life is solely due to the forgiving and renewing mercy that God imparts as a gift and we receive in faith, and never can merit in any way ," affirming " fundamental doctrinal agreement " concerning justification between the Catholic Church, the LWF, and the World Methodist Council.

FISA, the “ Fédération Internationale des Sociétés d ’ Aviron ” in French ( or the English equivalent International Federation of Rowing Associations ) was founded by representatives from France, Switzerland, Belgium, Adriatica ( now a part of Italy ) and Italy in Turin on 25 June 1892.

The actions Q took in sending the Enterprise D to System J-25 — and thus maintaining the time loop, are expanded upon in the Star Trek novels as being partially ( though indirectly ) the reason for the existence of the Mirror Universe, explaining that Zefram Cochrane attempted to warn Earth and the worlds that would become part of the Federation about the Borg after First Contact.

In 2293, the Romulan ambassador to the Federation, Nanclus, took part in a conspiracy to sabotage peace talks between the Klingons and the Federation.

An experience concerned the findings of a United Nations Assessment Team that led the British territories of Sarawak and Sabah in 1963 to determine whether or not the populations wished to become a part of the new Malaya Federation.

Even after the formation of the Federation, citizenship is still not a requirement, as several officers are from planets that are not part of the Federation.

Comprising the central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, Siberia was part of the Soviet Union ( USSR ) from its beginning, as its predecessor states, the Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire, colonized the region during the 16th to 19th centuries.

Tanzania is part of the East African Community and a potential member of the planned East African Federation.

Both Sabah ( formerly British North Borneo ) and Sarawak were separate British colonies from Malaya, and did not become part of the Federation of Malaya in 1957.

However, both voted to become part of the new Federation of Malaysia along with the Federation of Malaya and Singapore in 1963.

As part of its efforts to advance its international agenda, the WFTU develops working partnerships with national and industrial trade unions worldwide as well as with a number of international and regional trade union organizations including the Organization of African Trade Union Unity ( OATUU ), the International Confederation of Arab Trade Unions ( ICATU ), the Permanent Congress of Trade Union Unity of Latin America ( CPUSTAL ), and the General Federation of Trade Unions of CIS.

It may have once lived in the Asiatic part of what is now the Russian Federation.

Population institutions are part of the Cicred ( International Committee for Coordination of Demographic Research ) network while most individual scientists engaged in demographic research are members of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, or a national association such as the Population Association of America in the United States, or affiliates of the Federation of Canadian Demographers in Canada.

The Italian Federation of the Greens, the French Greens, the German Alliance ' 90 / The Greens and both Belgian Green parties, the French-speaking Ecolo and the Dutch-speaking Agalev were part of government during the late 1990s.

During the brutal Cardassian occupation of Bajor in the early 24th century, the Federation refused to act on the grounds that, since Bajor was at that time considered part of the Cardassian Union, the occupation was an internal matter of the Cardassian government and to help the Bajorans would violate the Prime Directive.

In the spring of 1999, Don King and Oscar De la Hoya's promoter, Bob Arum, agreed to co-promote a mega-fight for the Lineal, World Boxing Council and International Boxing Federation welterweight championships on September 18, 1999 at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas.

Also in 1919, the International Federation of Workers in the Hotel, Restaurant, Lunchroom, Club and Catering Industry ( IFWHRLC ) called upon its members to terminate any AFL memberships and was judged by investigators, on the basis of an explanation of industrial unionism in the Hotel Worker, one of its publications, to be a " revolutionary organization based upon the One Big Union principle, having for its objective the establishment of a new social order and the seizure of industry.

In 1891 the Martha Hotel, designed by architects Tappin, Gilbert and Dennehy was constructed in a Federation Queen Anne style.

Prominent buildings in the street include the Executive Building, which houses the Department of Premier and Cabinet, the Hotel Grand Chancellor and Federation Concert Hall, the Hobart Real Tennis Club, and what was the Davey St Telstra exchange ( now apartments ).

SunExpress also supports TUROFED ( Turkish Hotel Federation ) in promoting hotels in Turkey.

In fact, the International Federation of Journalists has long argued that the events of April 8, 2003 when a US tank attacked the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad, killing two journalists, were in fact part of a targeting process.

On October 14, 1967, René Lévesque left the Congress of the Quebec Liberal Federation and announced in a press conference held at Clarendon Hotel that he had quit the Liberal Party of Quebec and was from now on to sit as an independent member in the Parliament of Quebec.

Dressage at the international level under the rules of the FEI ( Federation Equestre Internationale ) consists of the following levels: Prix St. Georges, Intermediare I, Intermediare II and Grand Prix.

* World Grand Master ( bridge ), maintained by the World Bridge Federation

Her accomplishment was declared a " Grand Slam " by Philippe Chatrier, president of the International Tennis Federation.

* 1917 The first national conference of Big Brothers and Big Sisters organizations is held in Grand Rapids, MI., leading to the later organization of the Big Brothers and Big Sisters Federation

Until March 2008, the International Tennis Federation ( ITF ), Association of Tennis Professionals ( ATP ), Women's Tennis Association ( WTA ), Grand Slam Committee, and several individual tournaments had conflicting rules on how Hawk-Eye was to be utilized.

Graham debuted in the World Wide Wrestling Federation in 1975, with The Grand Wizard as his manager.

He was a member of the council of the International Badminton Federation for 10 years and was one of three deputy referees for the badminton competition at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, GA. Hales won back-to-back national junior titles in 1959 and 1960, and became a national champion again by winning the Grand Master's ( 60 and over ) men's singles title in 2002 and 2003.

On 22 September 2009, French newspaper L ' Équipe reported that the Grand Stade Nice had been selected by the French Football Federation as one of the twelve stadiums to be used in the country's bidding for UEFA Euro 2016.

" Grand Basset Griffon Vendéen " FCI-Standard N ° 33 14February 2001 World Canine Federation

Ladd wrestled for a number of different wrestling associations, including the World Wide Wrestling Federation where he was managed by The Grand Wizard of Wrestling.

A World Bridge Federation Grand Master, he and George Rapée, Charles Goren, Howard Schenken, John R. Crawford and Sidney Silodor won the inaugural Bermuda Bowl in 1950 and repeated in 1951 and 1953 ; he won numerous national titles.

However, in October 2008 the 2009 French Grand Prix was cancelled after the French Motorsports Federation ( FFSA ) withdrew financing for the event.

He had been a Justice of the Peace, Member of the Council of the House Builders ' Association, President of the Federation of Master Builders ( 1944 ), and a Grand Commander in the Order of the Redeemer, Greece ’ s highest honour.

He was controller of the British Chess Federation Grand Prix for many years, having found its first sponsor, Cutty Sark.

During the 22 month construction period, speedway management negotiated the required race dates from the rival sanctioning bodies, convincing the FIA ( Federation Internationale de L ’ Automobile ) to allow a second U. S. Grand Prix in 1972, contingent upon conducting a qualifying race ( the Questor Grand Prix ) in 1971.

The JGTC ( Japanese Grand Touring Championship ) — established in 1993 by the JAF ( Japanese Automobile Federation ) via its subsidiary company the GT-A ( GT Association ) — replaced the defunct All Japan Sports Prototype Championship for Group C cars ( that was terminated by the end of 1994 ) and in the same year Japanese Touring Car Championship for Group A touring cars, which would adopt the supertouring formula which was used worldwide.

In 2002, Huber accepted a role with the German Tennis Federation and became the co-tournament director for the annual Porsche Tennis Grand Prix WTA tournament in Filderstadt, Germany.

He has received numerous awards and honors, including the Grand Award for Highway Safety from the National Safety Federation ; the James C. Wheat, Jr. Award for Service to Virginians with Disabilities ; and the Earl Williams Leadership in Technology Award.

In March 2008, the International Tennis Federation, Association of Tennis Professionals, Women's Tennis Association and Grand Slam Committee agreed unified challenge rules: a player can make up to three unsuccessful challenges per set, and a fourth in a tie-break.

In WWE ( formerly the World Wrestling Federation and World Wrestling Entertainment ) the term " Grand Slam Champion " was originally used by Shawn Michaels to describe himself upon winning the European Championship on September 20, 1997.

Kane, who had defeated Triple H for the Intercontinental Championship at Judgment Day on May 20, 2001, was acknowledged as a Grand Slam Champion as he had " become the only superstar in World Wrestling Federation history that has held the Intercontinental title as well as the Hardcore, Tag Team and WWF titles ".