For example, an October 2003 directive by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government required teachers to stand during the national anthem at graduation ceremonies.

Since October 23, 2003, 410 teachers and school workers have been punished for refusing to stand and sing the anthem as ordered by school principals.

In making the ruling, the panels ratified the decision of the Tokyo High Court in ruling against 13 teachers who had asked for court relief after being disciplined between 2003 and 2005 for refusing to stand and sing the anthem.

The organization Freedom House commented on the adoption of the anthem in a report about the country, published in 2003.

The anthem was given official status by the Isle of Man's legislature Tynwald at a sitting on 22 January 2003, with God Save the Queen, being designated as the Royal Anthem.

Dobbyn's hit song " Loyal " ( 1988 ) from his debut solo album Loyal ( 1988 ) was used as an anthem for Team New Zealand's failed 2003 America's Cup defence.

On August 22, 2011, the Brooklyn Cyclones also honored Pia Toscano, who sang the anthem prior to a game in 2003 by putting a plaque on the press level.

The Modern ARTillery album in 2003 was a return to musical simplicity in most tracks ( the rock anthem " The Room " being an exception ), but was certainly of a different style to the ' punkabilly ' of the self-titled album, and the jazzy rockabilly of Hellbound and It's For Your Own Good.

At the Davis Cup tennis finals held in Australia in 2003, James Morrison played this anthem, El Himno de Riego instead of Spain's current national anthem, the Marcha Real (" Royal March ").

" Merrill appeared as himself in a cameo role, singing the national anthem, in the 2003 film Anger Management.

" Hoiku shōka and the melody of the Japanese national anthem Kimi ga yo ," Journal of the Society for Research in Asiatic Music ( 東洋音楽研究 ), No. 68 ( 2003 ), pp. 1 – 17, 23-24.

Until 2003, the melody of the anthem was played by the Gdańsk carillon tower and served as the signature theme of the television stations TVP Poznań and TVP Gdańsk.

On April 25, 2003, during a game between the Trail Blazers and the Dallas Mavericks, Cheeks aided 13-year-old Natalie Gilbert in singing the American national anthem.

The album takes its name from the anthem specially composed for the Opening Ceremony of the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Croke Park, June 2003.

In 2003 it was nominated to be the official anthem of Serbia and Montenegro.

The legal acts which reconstituted the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia into the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro stipulated that a law was to be passed by the end of 2003 specifying the Union's coat of arms and anthem.

In 2003 she found fame by singing the national anthem before every England game at the 2003 Rugby Union World Cup in Australia.

The song has been covered by Darren Criss's character on Glee and became the official anthem for the 2003 NBA Playoffs.

" Fighter " became the official anthem for the 2003 NBA Playoffs and was heard during the NBA Finals commercials.

* 2003 – Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois ' death row based on the Jon Burge scandal.

The series won Favorite TV Show at the Nickelodeon Kids ' Choice Awards two years in a row in 2002 and 2003.

Prior to the January 11, 2003 commutation of death row sentences, male death row inmates were housed in Tamms, Menard, and Pontiac correctional centers.

In February 2003 the female death row moved to the Lowell Annex.

Prior to the January 11, 2003 commutation of death row sentences, male death row inmates were housed in Tamms, Menard, and Pontiac correctional centers.

( 1984, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008 ) The Wildcats won 90 games in a row from 1988 to 1995.

In 2003, the NCAA created a tournament for Women ’ s bowling and the Nebraska Women ’ s Bowling team has been one of the top college bowling teams since the start of NCAA competition, which the Huskers won the first two national titles in a row, came in third place during the third NCAA tournament and have won three of the first six NCAA tournaments.

On January 11, 2003, in a speech at Northwestern School of Law's Lincoln Hall, then Governor of Illinois George Ryan announced that he would commute the sentences of more than 150 death row inmates.

Recently New Zealand has dominated the cup, winning it 10 times in a row ( 2003 – 2012 ).

In 1998 Petter became the Norwegian Rally Champion, his brother Henning won this title five times in a row between 1999 and 2003.

In his time at Arsenal, Vieira appeared in the PFA Team of the Year six years in a row from the 1998 – 99 season up to the 2003 – 04 season.

He started the 2003 – 04 season by scoring twice in his first two league matches, which boosted his goals in consecutive games record to 10 matches in a row.

The women's varsity hockey team have become very successful, winning their first OUA championship in their 1998 – 1999 season, winning in 2002 and having won five consecutive years in a row ( 2003 – 2008 ).

* Most games won in a row – 10, 05 / 04 / 2003 – 08 / 05 / 2003

Cornwall won the PanCeltic Song Contest three years in a row between 2003 and 2005.

The gallows in Delaware was later dismantled in 2003, because in that year none of its death row inmates remained eligible to choose hanging over lethal injection.

Webber was an All-NBA player five years in a row as a Sacramento King ( 1999 – 2003 ), making the 1st team in 2001 for the only time in his career.

Isaac met Nikki after spotting her in the 5th row of a crowd at their 2003 New Orleans concert.

Hunter couldn't win the Masters for the third time in row in 2003, as he lost 3 – 6 in the semi-finals to the previous year's runner-up and eventual champion Mark Williams.

He has also received numerous Squiddy Awards, having been selected as favorite writer four years in a row from 1995 to 1998, and as a member of the favorite creative team for 1996, 1999, and 2003.

The team won the Middlesex Cup an unprecedented three years in a row ( 2001 / 02, 2002 / 03 and 2003 / 04 ) and became the first team to appear in four consecutive finals, losing the 2000 / 01 final.

In February 2003, as the Bush administration neared the end of its preparations for war, an internal fight erupted over INC's plan to actually become the government of Iraq after the U. S. invasion.

Seventeen major flares erupted on the Sun between 19 October and 5 November 2003, including perhaps the most intense flare ever measured on the GOES XRS sensor – a huge X28 flare, resulting in an extreme radio blackout, on 4 November.

On November 9, 2003, a violent confrontation erupted between the chairman of the District Council, elements of the 2d ACR, and a team from the 490th Civil Affairs Battalion.

In 2003, controversy erupted between Poland and France when Polish forces found French Roland surface-to-air missiles that the international press reported that Polish officers claimed had been manufactured in 2003.

Started on March 7, 2003, Marović's term in office as President of Serbia-Montenegro was marked by his apologies to Croatian and Bosnian citizens as well as his involvement in the military equipment scandal that erupted in September 2005.

When construction of the barrier began in September 2003, a fierce dispute with the Yemeni government erupted.

He seems to have fought alongside Liberian mercenaries initially, but fighting later erupted between the Ivorian rebels and these mercenaries in April 2003.

The Iraqi insurgency of 2003-2006 erupted following the completion of the invasion of Iraq and the toppling of Saddam Hussein's rule in May 2003.

In August 2003, a conflict erupted in the village of Yerere in Western Mali when traditional Sunni practitioners attacked Wahhabi Sunnis, who were building an authorized mosque.

A scandal erupted in the United States in 2003 where some mutual funds " secretly " allowed select investors to rapidly trade the portfolio despite statements banning the practice in the prospectus.

Fierce rivalries that divided the cartel into warring factions erupted in 2003 when Hernando Gómez, Wilber Varela and their inner circle, prompted by a rising number of extradition of cartel members to the United States, apparently attempted to negotiate a possible surrender deal with the Drug Enforcement Administration ( DEA ), in a move which was strongly rejected by Diego Montoya and several of the other cartel drug lords.

In October 2003, controversy erupted between Poland and France when Polish forces from the Multinational force in Iraq found French Roland surface-to-air missiles.

In 2003, a quarterback controversy erupted between Couch and backup Kelly Holcomb after Holcomb, starting the 2002 playoff game for the injured Couch, threw for 429 yards and three touchdowns.