The country formally joined the World Trade Organization in 2001.

For the 1930 season, the Spartans formally joined the NFL as the other area independents folded because of the Great Depression.

Although his expulsion would have formally taken effect on 4 January 1831, Galois quit school immediately and joined the staunchly Republican artillery unit of the National Guard.

Ptolemy Apion, the last Greek ruler, bequeathed Cyrenaica to Rome, which formally annexed the region in 74 BC and joined it to Crete as a Roman province.

Poland formally joined the European Union in May 2004, along with the other members of the Visegrád group.

However, according to Steiner there is little evidence that he ever formally joined a church.

In 1945, it formally joined the Declaration by United Nations.

Grace had played for the USEE previously and he formally joined the club in 1870 as its match organiser, for which he received payment, but he played for expenses only.

After years of peaceful and democratic progress, Barbados finally became an independent state and formally joined the Commonwealth of Nations on 30 November 1966, Errol Barrow serving as its first Prime Minister.

On July 12, 1806, 16 states in present-day Germany, including the remaining Countships of Nassau-Usingen and Nassau-Weilburg, formally left the Holy Roman Empire and joined together in the Confederation of the Rhine.

Especially interested in the literary contacts made at the meetings, Wright formally joined the Communist Party in late 1933 and as a revolutionary poet wrote numerous proletarian poems (" I Have Seen Black Hands ", " We of the Streets ", " Red Leaves of Red Books ", for example ), The New Masses and other left-wing periodicals.

Previously a formally neutral party in the Pomeranian campaigns, Brandenburg-Prussia openly joined the coalition by declaring war on Sweden in the summer of 1715.

In 1948, he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ) and became a German citizen again, formally adopting the pseudonym, Willy Brandt, as his legal name.

Bugs appeared mostly in the color Merrie Melodies series and formally joined the Looney Tunes crew with the release of Buckaroo Bugs.

As the five refounded eastern German states formally joined the Federal Republic using the Article 23 procedure, the area in which the Basic Law was in force simply extended to include them.

In September 2009, Iran formally joined the Transport Corridor Europe – Caucasus – Asia ( TRACECA ) programme, also known as the " new Silk Road.

WIC's stations in Calgary, Edmonton and Lethbridge had been airing some Global programs since 1988, and those stations formally joined the network on September 4, 2000.

On December 8, Belarus joined Russia and Ukraine in signing the Minsk Agreement to form the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ), which formally put an end to the Soviet Union.

In 1440, Grudziądz joined the Prussian Confederation and formally asked the King of Poland, Casimir IV Jagiellon to join Poland.

In April 1956, Abbas flew to Cairo, where he formally joined the FLN.

He now became closely associated with Vladimir Lenin and Alexander Bogdanov's's Bolshevik wing of the party, with Bogdanov taking repsonsibility for the transfer of funds from Gorky to Vpered. It is not clear whether he ever formally joined and his relations with Lenin and the Bolsheviks would always be rocky.

Azhruddin formally joined the Indian National Congress party on February 19, 2009.

Saybrook Colony formally joined Connecticut in 1644.

Kampen was originally more oriented toward the Baltic trade and commerce with the hinterland of the Rhine, and therefore in 1441 formally joined the Hanseatic League.

Though a few Liberal Unionists like Goschen formally joined the Conservatives ( by becoming member of the exclusive Tory Carlton Club ), the party still continued to maintain a separate identity and to raise their own funds.

In 1991, Getty's Progressive Conservatives formally severed ties with the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, which was becoming increasingly unpopular under Mulroney.

Haughey failed to be elected Taoiseach, as the Progressive Democrats voted for Fine Gael's leader Alan Dukes, but after Haughey formally resigned he entered into negotiations with the Progressive Democrats about forming a coalition.

On 16 April 2007, the airport was formally renamed " L. F. Wade International Airport " in honour of L. Frederick Wade father of L. Frederick Wade Jr. L. Frederick Wade a past leader of the incumbent governing party ( the Progressive Labour Party ) when it was in opposition.

When the new party was created, he refused to join the new Conservative caucus, and, until his retirement remained one of two senators ( the other being Elaine McCoy ) to sit as " Progressive Conservatives " even though the federal Progressive Conservative Party has been formally dissolved.

Miller formally resigned as Premier on June 26, 1985 ; ending 42 years of Progressive Conservative rule over Ontario.

The party formally changed its name to the " Liberal Party of Manitoba " in 1961, over only scattered objections from Progressive diehards.

The Coalition succeeded in electing several members, including Terry Bouricius, to the Vermont General Assembly, and, after establishing a stable political base, formally became the Progressive Party.

Since the merger of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and the Canadian Alliance to create the Conservative Party of Canada in 2003, the provincial Progressive Conservatives have not been formally affiliated with a party at the federal level.

Pallister defeated Paul-Emile Labossiere to win the Progressive Conservative nomination for Portage — Lisgar in the 1997 federal election, and formally resigned his seat in the legislature on April 28, 1997.

It is set during the Bélanger-Campeau commission ( a public hearing to determine the way to choose for Quebec regarding its autonomy ), before the Parti Libéral du Québec ( in power, traditionally in favor of autonomy within Canada and co-instigator of the Accord with the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada ) formally closed the door to independence in the light of the death of Meech Lake and the departure of some Liberal nationalists to create the ADQ.

None of the current provincial Progressive Conservative Parties are formally linked with the federal Conservatives-the creation of the Conservative Party of Canada resulted in the formal disbanding of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.

Mark formally joined the Progressive Conservatives on August 27, 2002.

Late in 2003, the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party formally merged to create the new Conservative Party of Canada.

In 2003, he supported cooperation between the Canadian Alliance with the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in the Portage — Lisgar riding, before the two parties were formally merged.

On 12 December 2011 the RLD formally joined the United Progressive Alliance after meeting Indian National Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh.

He was reelected to his fourth term in 2004, nominated by his New Progressive Party / New Party for Progress caucus as Senate President on November 4, 2004, and formally elected and sworn in for a four-year term as the Senate's 13th President on January 10, 2005.

He finished second on the first count with 3, 063 votes ( 40. 13 %), and formally lost to Progressive Conservative candidate Reginald Lissaman on the second count.