Historian Isabelle Dervaux has described the reception this painting received when it was first exhibited at the official Paris Salon of 1874: " Visitors and critics found its subject baffling, its composition incoherent, and its execution sketchy.

The film received an overwhelmingly positive reception and won four Guldbagge Awards ( Sweden's official film awards ) at the 1999 ceremony.

Under Emperor An, Zhang also served as Prefect of the Majors for Official Carriages under the Ministry of Guards, in charge of the reception of memorials ( containing policy and administrative suggestions ) submitted to the throne as well as nominees for official appointments.

From the time of her commencement as Governor, Bashir, like her immediate predecessor, did not reside in Government House, Sydney, retaining it for reception and official purposes.

Moments later, the vessel's gunpowder magazine exploded, killing everyone on board, including the admiral himself and 2, 000 crew and guests at an official reception.

Marcus returned to Rome immediately thereafter, and sent out special instructions to his proconsuls not to give the group any official reception.

An official reception has been held at the New Zealand Parliament since 2003.

At a diplomatic reception in Mexico City, Ames got into a loud, drunken argument with a Cuban official that " caused alarm " among his superiors.

Eichmann stated that he had only been introduced to al-Husseini during an official reception, along with all other department heads.

They are in keeping with the prevailing " stripped-classical style ", with more formal interiors provided for the official reception rooms, and a lighter scheme prevailing in the private residential rooms.

The official reception of Victoria Eugenie into the Catholic faith took place on 5 March 1906 at Miramar Palace in San Sebastián.

On his arrival to Barcelona where he was given an official reception by the then Mayor of Barcelona, Josep Maria de Porcioles, in November 1966, he was called Blancanieves (" Snow White ") in the newspaper Tele / Exprés.

The necessary entertainments were always elegant, however ; and her cordial hospitality made the last official reception a gracious occasion although her husband had lost his bid for re-election and partisan feeling still ran high.

Mrs. Pierce made her first official appearance as First Lady at a New Year's Day reception in 1855 and thereafter served as White House hostess intermittently.

The official reception finally occurred on February 24, 1812.

Even the nearly exhaustive official color scheme for the seal ( e. g., " the spear of Minerva shall be Oakwood, Cable No. 70094 and the tip white "), passed in 1967 -- thirty years after the structure was officially added -- failed to mention the building, and while the seal in the current carpet of the Governor's Office reception area in the State Capitol shows the building, it is shaded the same color as the mountains ( see image ' ca.

The controversy over the first performance was sufficient to cause Dutch Television to cancel a planned broadcast recorded two days earlier at an official reception at Hilversum's City Hall on 13 September 1963 ( Ligeti 1997, 7, 11 ; Morrison 2012 ).

Throughout the first years of the 1980s the Muslim Brotherhood and various other Islamist factions staged hit-and-run and bomb attacks against the government and its officials, including a nearly successful attempt to assassinate president Hafez al-Assad on 26 June 1980, during an official state reception for the president of Mali.

* F Block: The current official entry point, this holds the reception, Marketing and senior management offices, and the largest lecture theatre.

Media reports highlighted the particularly warm reception which leaders of both countries received whenever they visited each other's domains, particularly in July 1988, when Sultan Iskandar's visit to Singapore marked the first official visit by any Yang di-Pertuan Agong since 1957.

Official milblogs did not receive the same reception or popularity of the unofficial milblogs as they were written in the same dull language as other official publications of the Defense Department.

The steps were originally planned as the official reception area for dignitaries arriving in Washington, D. C., via water taxi from Virginia, but they never served this function.

This was to set an official manufacturing standard for high-quality AM radio receivers, with a wider audio bandwidth for higher fidelity reception of strong signals, and optionally C-QUAM AM stereo.

A new bill had been passed under Harding that designated the Government, rather than the President, as the tab-lifter for official meals.

The action of the Commission in allowing or denying any claim under this title shall be final and conclusive on all questions of law and fact and not subject to review by the Secretary of State or any other official, department, agency, or establishment of the United States or by any court by mandamus or otherwise.

Even then, as you go into the house oppressed by the knowledge that something is cooking and that your house has passed under this unaccountable, official control, could you go on forgetting that you still had that ridiculous hat on your head and you were still carrying that childish horn in your hand??

The standardized form of Austrian German for official texts and schools is defined by the Austrian Dictionary (), published under the authority of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture.

He was, however, destined for the law and an official career in the Austrian civil service, and he occupied various important posts under the ministry of justice, music being an avocation.

There are also immigrants from other countries such as Romania, Russia, Ukraine and Morocco, many of whom are under illegal alien status and therefore are not accounted for in official population figures.

The President of Germany, whose functions are mainly ceremonial under the German constitution, has his official residence in Schloss Bellevue.

The F-5s are under a modernisation program called F-5BR program, the aircraft official designation is F-5M.

The 1910 tour to South Africa marked the official beginning of British and Irish rugby tours: the inaugural tour operating under all four unions.

Daniel then predicts that the Jewish people would suffer great persecution under an official who would come to power after Alexander ’ s death.

The first was the late 7th century Deuteronomistic reform of official Judean religion under king Josiah, who banned many elements of the old polytheistic cult from the Temple, and the sudden collapse of Assyria and the rise of Babylon to take its place ; the second was exile of the royal court, the priests and other members of the ruling elite following the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem c. 586 BCE.

In the early 1970s, however, the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau ( now NYC & Company, the official marketing and tourism organization for New York City ), under the leadership of its president, Charles Gillett, began promoting " the Big Apple " for the city.

BeOS R5 is considered the last official version, but BeOS R5. 1 " Dano ", which was under development before Be's sale to Palm and included the BeOS Networking Environment ( BONE ) networking stack, was leaked to the public shortly after the company's demise.

On 29 ( 16 ) June 1913 General Savov, under direct orders of tsar Ferdinand I, issued attacking orders against both Greece and Serbia without consulting the Bulgarian government and without any official declaration of war.

Meanwhile, under the direction of Benedict XIV ( pope 1740 – 1758 ), a special congregation collected much material for an official revision, but nothing was published.

With the official cessation of violence by some of the major paramilitary organisations and the creation of the power-sharing executive at Stormont in Belfast under the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, the Saville Inquiry's re-examination of the events of that day is widely hoped to provide a thorough account of the events of Bloody Sunday.

: The name " Republic of China " is not listed as Taiwan's " official name " under the " Government " section, due to U. S. acknowledgement of Beijing's One-China policy according to which there is one China and Taiwan is a part of it.

It grew in size and influence over a few decades, and by the end of the 4th century had become the official state religion of the Roman Empire, replacing other forms of religion practiced under Roman rule.

Such services are an effort to bring more confidence to investors in rare coins under the guise of being " official.

Even the People's Bank of China has been accorded great latitude due to the difficulty of problems it faces, though in the People's Republic of China the official role of the bank remains that of a national bank rather than a central bank, underlined by the official refusal to " unpeg " the yuan or to revalue it " under pressure ".

Throughout the 1920s and most of the 1930s, the Labour Party's official policy, supported by Attlee, was to oppose rearmament and support internationalism and collective security under the League of Nations.

Contacts with the FARC, which had irregularly continued despite the generalized de facto interruptions of the ceasefire and the official 1987 break from negotiations, were temporarily cut off in 1990 under the presidency of César Gaviria ( 1990 – 1994 ).

The annexation of Mauretania, begun under Caligula, was completed after the defeat of rebel forces, and the official division of the former client kingdom into two Imperial provinces.

Just as Claudius had criticized his predecessors in official edicts ( see below ), Nero often criticized the deceased Emperor and many of Claudius ' laws and edicts were disregarded under the reasoning that he was too stupid and senile to have meant them.