Hailed as the first all-Palestinian rugby team in history, the team is made up almost exclusively of residents of Beit Jala.

Hailed as one of the greatest of the Roman pontiffs after his reforms proved successful, Gregory was, during his own reign, despised by some for his expansive use of papal powers.

Hailed as " America's Foodiest Small Town " by Bon Appétit Magazine, Chapel Hill is rapidly becoming a hot spot for pop American cuisine.

Hailed by many critics and fans as a thrash metal masterpiece, the album cemented the band's position as one of the driving forces of the east coast thrash movement.

Hailed by both critics and fans as one of his best albums, it was praised as " a superb new album which sees a return to the form he showed to full effect on those classics like ' Only Visiting This Planet ' and ' So Long Ago the Garden ' back in the mid seventies " with 13 new " songs are cleverly arranged and produced, with plenty of pertinent lyrical imagery and the sly wit of yore amongst the electric guitar solos and breezy ( sampled?

Hailed as a masterpiece by many critics upon reception, Shoah was described in the New York Times as " an epic film about the greatest evil of modern times.

Hailed as a warlord, prophet and peacemaker, Titokowaru's story lapsed into obscurity before being popularised by New Zealand historian James Belich in his works on the New Zealand Wars.

" Hailed enthusiastically by critics, the book was a bestseller as both Book-of-the-Month Club and History Book Club selections ; and Mattingly also won a Pulitzer Prize ( special citation ) for the work.

Hailed by Time shortly after its completion as Wright's " most beautiful job ", it is listed among Smithsonians Life List of 28 places " to visit before you die.

" Hailed by the BBC as an " Internet crusade ", it failed to get any letters sent in, and Downey happily concedes that it is probably his greatest failure to date.

Hailed by Constantine and home to the famous and blue mosque, a Muslim holy place once brought to ruin by Genghis Khan, rebuilt by Timur, ruined again by the Soviets, and more recently the Taliban.

Hailed by The Boston Globe as a masterful production, the company was invited to present the work on the lawn of the White House in a performance attended by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Hailed by some as a masterpiece, the movie comments on the decline of Russian society as a result of the rise of capitalism.

Hailed as the ' spiritual leader of the Empire ' by Emperor Karl Franz and presented with Sigmar's own hammer Ghal Maraz, Valten was believed by many to be an avatar of Sigmar.

Hailed as a national hero, he was elected President of the Republic by a majority vote in November 1936, the first head of state of the modern state of Syria.

Hailed by critics as " the greatest television series never seen " ( according to DVD release publicity ) The Veil was never broadcast.

Hailed as the second-coming of Eddie Pope, Stokes was selected 5th overall in the 2003 MLS SuperDraft by D. C. United.

Hailed by director Jonathan Demme as “ the best designer of film titles in the country today ”, Woman of Straw, Bullitt, The Russians are Coming … The Russians are Coming, Citizens Band, Philadelphia, Married to the Mob, Beetlejuice, and To Live and Die in L. A. are among the over 100 films that have showcased his creations.

Hailed by Christianity Today as one of the one hundred most influential books in religion in the 20th century, it went on to sell 350, 000 copies.

Hailed as yet another television flop by Chris Evans ' production company UMTV, Evans himself had the last word.

Hailed as the director's most optimistic film to date, it made its premiere at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival.

Hailed only a few years earlier as a hero of the American Revolution, Paine was now lambasted in the press and called " the scavenger of faction ", a " lilly-livered sinical rogue ", a " loathsome reptile ", a " demi-human archbeast ", " an object of disgust, of abhorrence, of absolute loathing to every decent man except the President of the United States Jefferson ".

Hailed as a leader in local political circles, Rochester was appointed a Major in the North Carolina militia and served as a paymaster.

Hailed as a child prodigy and " wunderkind ," she was featured on Entertainment Weeklys October 1998 list of the " 100 Most Creative People in Entertainment ," which described her as an up-and-coming 19-year-old.

Hailed as India's first all-original rock album, it was a huge success and was widely pirated in regions where distribution was scarce, as in the northeastern Indian states of Assam, Nagaland and Meghalaya.

Hailed as a frontier hero, Morrow Mountain State Park built a renovation of where his house was and now offers tours.

Hailed as a child prodigy and " wunderkind ," she was featured on Entertainment Weekly's October 1998 list of the " 100 Most Creative People in Entertainment ," which described her as an up-and-coming 19-year-old.

Hailed as the next Robert Prosinečki, Kranjčar was given his international debut by his father Zlatko in August 2004.

Hailed as the largest permanent robotics exhibit in the United States, Roboworld allows guests to interact and learn about robots through different themed areas.

Hailed as a martyr, she will be honored as the patron saint of chastity, gardeners, rape victims and virgins.

Hailed as the Iron Man of India, he is also remembered as the " Patron Saint " of India's civil servants for establishing modern all-India services.

* Los Angeles Times, Functionists Work Hailed As Brilliant, January 17, 1954, Page E7.

Hailed as " revolutionary ", the game left a lasting impression on 3D game design, particularly notable for its use of a dynamic camera system and the implementation of its analog control.

Hailed as the " Milkman of India ", Kurien won several awards including the Padma Vibhushan ( India's second-highest civilian honour ), the World Food Prize and the Magsaysay Award for community leadership.

Hailed as king in 995, Olaf Tryggvason quickly proceeded to convert Norway to Christianity, using all means at his disposal.

Hailed as one of the " Seven Wise Men of the Convention ", he would sponsor the provisions on the Bill of Rights.

Hailed as the progenitor of the Chinese landscape poetry genre ( Shanshui poetry ), the reputation of Xie Lingyun as a great poet remains secure, as it has for over a thousand years.

Unlike physician-assisted suicide, withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatments with patient consent ( voluntary ) is almost unanimously considered, at least in the United States, to be legal.

It is almost unanimously believed to be pseudepigraphical, being a pastiche of phrases taken from the genuine Pauline epistles.

The text was almost unanimously considered pseudepigraphal when Biblical canon was decided upon, and does not appear in any Greek copies of the Bible at all, nor is it known in Syriac or other versions.

IBM and users almost unanimously called the new system MVS from the start, and IBM continued to use the term MVS in the naming of later major versions such as MVS / XA.

On first publication in October 1937, The Hobbit was met with almost unanimously favourable reviews from publications both in the UK and the US, including The Times, Catholic World and The New York Post.

In 1939, in a country which had seemed deeply divided, these promises made it possible for Parliament to agree almost unanimously to declare war.

A few, such as the X-Men and the characters of Watchmen, defend a populace that almost unanimously misunderstands and despises them.

Modern scholarship has almost unanimously agreed that claims of the travels of Jesus to Tibet, Kashmir or India and the influence of Buddhism on his teachings are without historical basis.

At the 1944 Republican Convention, his chief rivals, Ohio governor John W. Bricker and former Minnesota governor Harold Stassen both withdrew and Dewey was nominated almost unanimously.

It almost unanimously, with the exception of two individuals, condemned the Monothelite doctrine as one that diminished the fullness of Christ ’ s humanity, and asserted that Dyothelitism was the true doctrine, with Christ possessing " two natural wills and two natural energies, without division, alteration, separation or confusion.

March of the Volunteers was suggested by painter Xu Beihong and almost unanimously supported by the members of the committee.

It received almost unanimously positive reviews upon release, Entertainment Weekly calling it a " swirling, hypnotic acid-trip ", and Musik saying that " this group's place in the history book of late 20th Century music is assured.

President Johnson ordered retaliatory air strikes on North Vietnamese naval bases and Congress approved almost unanimously the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing the president " to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the U. S. and to prevent further aggression.

He was voted Most Valuable Player almost unanimously ( one voter chose César Tovar of the Twins ).

However, his cocaine use and freebasing continued on and off, although it has been almost unanimously attested by Holmes ' co-stars ( post Wonderland ) that Holmes was consistently professional on set.

" Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act almost unanimously in 1890, and it remains the core of antitrust policy.

The Kentuckians generally were political adherents of Henry Clay and the Tennesseans almost unanimously followed Andrew Jackson.

On January 16, 1909, Grandfield citizens voted, almost unanimously, for incorporation, and the post office opened January 21, 1909.

* In 2006 and 2009, the Danish parliament voted almost unanimously, only with two abstentions, in favour of a new royal succession law that would allow a first-born child to ascend the throne.

The Republican Party, nominating Governor of New York Thomas E. Dewey in 1944 and 1948, supported civil rights legislation that the Southern Democrats in Congress almost unanimously opposed.

This was accepted by the Commons almost unanimously, and they formed a drafting committee led by Coke.

Numerous public meetings occurred and adopted the Offenburg programme, and on March 4, under the influence of the popular excitement, the lower chamber accepted this programme almost unanimously.

Still other proposals are almost unanimously rejected by specialists ( for example, Amerind ).

In July 2006, a Ventura, California jury unanimously held that Keyes was entitled to almost one-half of Shaw's estate, or $ 1, 420, 000.