* PM Sharon's Address at the Opening Ceremony for the Begin Heritage Centre Building 16 June 2004

Support for this view is sought in Pope John XXIII's Opening Address to the Council, Pope Paul VI's closing address, statements from Pope Benedict XVI, and the lack of formal dogmatic definitions in the Conciliar documents.

In the United Kingdom, where the practice originated, Her Majesty's Most Gracious Speech, also known as the Gracious Address or, less formally, as the Queen's Speech, is typically read by the reigning sovereign at the State Opening of Parliament ; this occurs annually in May — prior to the Fixed Term Parliament Act 2011, the State Opening usually occurred in November or December — or soon after a general election.

* Interview with Ramona Koval on her Sydney Writers ' Festival 2008 Opening Address ,' Get a book, get a life: How words create meaning ' – The Book Show, ABC Radio National, 1 June 2008

* Gallaudet, Edward Miner, Opening Address at the First Commencement of Gallaudet, 1869.

II Opening Address: The Relation between Social Theory and Social Policy The British Journal of Sociology, Vol.

* Architectural AISthetics ( Opening Keynote Address for digifest 2004 )

* J. O ' Donnel C. An Address, Delivered at the Opening of the Tenth Exhibition of the American Academy of the Fine Arts ( Charles Wiley: New York, 1824 ) " Officers and Directors for 1824 ".

His grandiose plan to paint the first sitting after the passage of the Reform Bill resulted in his painting ' Moving the Address to the Crown on the Opening of the First Reformed Parliament in the Old House of Commons, 5 February 1833 ' ( 1833 – 43 ; London, N. P. G.

* Opening Address at the 20th Congress of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences in Washington, DC, August 9, 2000.

* Opening Address at HSBC Bank USAs 4th annual Philanthropy Forum in New York, New York, October 10, 2001.

* Opening speech at the Handheld Learning 2007 Conference 11 October 2007, Central Hall Westminster

The World Conference Opening Ceremonies traditionally include a ceremony featuring the flags of the nations where the church is organized and often include a welcome address by a featured speaker from another denomination, as well as welcomes by local elected officials.

Opening Keynote Speech: Annual Conference of the Division of Occupational Psychology of the British Psychological Society, Glasgow.

1997: Opening of new £ 38 million Clyde Auditorium at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre.

Along with its hosting duties for the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Opening Round game (" play-in " game ), the UD Arena also served as the host of the Midwestern Collegiate Conference ( now Horizon League ) men's basketball conference tournament from 1989 – 91 and was the host of the Atlantic Ten Basketball tournament in 2003 and 2004.

The demand for tickets was so great that all 81 home games were sold out before Opening Day on at least three separate occasions.

On April 4, 1999, the Rockies made history as they played their Opening Day game against the defending National League champion San Diego Padres at Estadio de Beisbol Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico – marking the first time Major League Baseball opened the regular season outside the United States or Canada.

The Miami Marlins in front of a sellout crowd at the inaugural Opening Night game at Marlins Park against the reigning World champion St. Louis Cardinals.

Monarchy of the United Kingdom | Queen Elizabeth II arrives at the Palace of Westminster for the State Opening of Parliament.

Pitcher Jim Umbricht died of cancer at the age of 33 just before Opening Day.

The Underground does not run 24 hours a day ( except at New Year and major public events – such as the Queen's Golden Jubilee in 2002 and the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the London Olympics in 2012 ) because most lines have only two tracks ( one in each direction ) and therefore need to close at night for cleaning and planned maintenance work.

Four years later at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, the Israeli team commemorated the massacre: when they entered the stadium at the Opening Ceremonies, their national flag was adorned with a black ribbon.

" The IOC rejected an international campaign in support of a minute of silence at the Opening Ceremonies of the 2012 London Olympics in honor of the Israeli victims of the massacre.

* Opening of carnival (" Karneval "/" Fasching "), on 11-11, at 11: 11.

Opening ceremony at the 2007 ' China V. USOEC ' challenge.

In 2006, El Moutawakel was one of the eight bearers of the Olympic flag at the 2006 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony in Turin, Italy.

Falk was a close friend of independent film director John Cassavetes and appeared in Cassavetes ' films Husbands, A Woman Under the Influence., and, in a cameo, at the end of Opening Night.

William Howard Taft started the tradition of throwing out the ceremonial first pitch in 1910 at Griffith Stadium, Washington, D. C., on the Washington Senators ' Opening Day.

Every president since Taft, except for Jimmy Carter, threw out at least one ceremonial first ball or pitch for Opening Day, the All-Star Game, or the World Series, usually with much fanfare.

Opening to mixed reviews, the film fared reasonably well at the box office – forming speculation that a sequel may be in the works.

Opening speech by president Pascal Couchepin at the World Economic Forum, one of the many international organizations based in Switzerland

The team members carried the Sealand flag in the 2007 DI Global Finals Opening Ceremony and plan to do so again at the 2008 event.

Richard Nixon throwing Opening Day ceremonial first pitch at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium | RFK Stadium on April 7, 1969 with Ted Williams ( left ) and Bob Short ( right, partially obscured by Ralph Houk ).

During the Winter Olympics, the National Olympic Committees ( NOCs ) of the constituent countries had not yet been affiliated to the IOC, so the Olympic Flag was used in place of a national flag at the Opening Ceremony and at medals ceremonies, and the Olympic Hymn was played for gold medallists.

Opening a new theatre in Parma, his Zaira ( 1829 ) was a failure at the Teatro Ducale, but Venice welcomed I Capuleti e i Montecchi, which was based on the same Italian source as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

The main exceptions to this system occur in some Latin American leagues, which divide football championships into two sections named Apertura and Clausura ( Spanish for Opening and Closing ), awarding a champion for each.

While on Sado, he won many devoted converts and wrote two of his most important doctrinal treatises, the Kaimoku Shō ( 開目抄: " On the Opening of the Eyes " ) and the Kanjin no Honzon Shō ( 観心本尊抄: " The Object of Devotion for Observing the Mind ") as well as numerous letters and minor treatises whose content containing critical components of his teaching.

Opening onto the parvis ( the large square in front of the cathedral where markets were held ), the two lateral doors would have been the first entry point for most visitors to Chartres, as it remains today.

Opening with a declaration that the label had " lost $ 35, 509 on ' the album of the year ' ( dammit )", the ad suggested that those who had purchased the album had probably worn their copies out by playing it over and over, and encouraged listeners to send these supposedly worn-out copies back to Warner Bros, who would exchange it for two new copies, including one " to educate a friend with ".

* Vasily Smyslov vs David Bronstein, Candidates ' Tournament, Amsterdam 1956, English Opening ( A34 ), 1 – 0 The two players were fighting for the right to qualify, late in the tournament, and Smyslov finds a way to come out on top.

Belphegor ( Lord of the Opening ) was pictured in two different fashions: as a beautiful young woman or as a monstrous, bearded demon with horns and sharply pointed nails ; the former form, according to most sources, was his earthly disguise when invoked by mortals.

In 2016, it may become the sixth stadium to host both a World Cup final and the Opening / Closing Ceremonies of the Summer Olympics, after the original Wembley in London, host of the 1948 Olympics and 1966 World Cup Final ; Stade Olympique in Paris, host of the 1924 Olympics and the 1938 World Cup Final ; Stadio Olimpico in Rome, host of the 1960 Olympics and 1990 World Cup Final ; Munich's Olympic Stadium which hosted the Olympics in 1972 and the World Cup Final in 1974 and Berlin's Olympic Stadium, host of the 1936 Olympics and the 2006 World Cup Final ( which was thoroughly redesigned and renovated between those two events ), though all those stadiums have hosted the athletics events as well.

In 2009, during his first Opening Day start with the Red Sox, Beckett struck out 10 through 7 innings allowing only 1 run and two hits in a 5 – 3 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays.

These speeches differ from a State Opening in at least two respects, however: They don't actually open the legislative session, and they are delivered by the chief executive on his or her own behalf.

His elevation was in part a result of the interest of William IV who, having admired his St. Michael's Mount at the Academy in 1831 ( now in the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia ), commissioned two works from him of the Opening of New London Bridge ( 1832 ) and The Entrance to Portsmouth Harbour.

Held across two events, Pride Grand Prix 2000 Opening Round featured first round bouts and Pride Grand Prix 2000 Finals featured the quarter finals, semi finals and final.

In addition, there are two royal appointments: the Lord Great Chamberlain, currently the Marquess of Cholmondeley, is appointed as the Queen's representative in Parliament, while the Earl Marshal, an office held since 1672 by the Dukes of Norfolk, is responsible for ceremonies such as the State Opening of Parliament.

Opening the suitcase, the two find it is full of cocaine, which was stolen by Drexl.

Rico and the other two Red Sox players showed up to the Grand Opening ceremonies at the Easton location which included giving out free black and white autograph photos of the Red Sox stars.

Then this player performs the last two moves of Opening A: taking the string which runs on the inside of the left arm onto the first finger of their right hand, then, reaching through the triangle created, the loop on the inside of the right hand is taken onto the first finger of the left hand ).

Opening a collection results in a project window with two main parts driven entirely by a unique set of GUI objects.

" An overture to the Opening Ceremony came two weeks later, on 4 August 1997, with the first ever game at Pride Park Stadium being played against Italian side Sampdoria, the match ending in a 1 – 0 defeat with Vincenzo Montella scoring the only goal of the game.

In November 1996, just two years after the Centre's Grand Opening, an ambitious $ 8 million Expansion Campaign was launched to add two floors with 65 more beds to the existing Nursing Home and extra Day Care Program space.

Opening on the same day, a curve between Pilton East and West Junctions allowed direct Leith-Granton movements, and a curve from Dalry Junction on the main line and Coltbridge Junction on the Granton line allowed direct trains from Lothian Road to the two ports.

Opening the batting in the second Test, he scored two fifties to save the game ; he also kept wicket for a time following an injury to the regular wicketkeeper.

The Wriothesley Garter Book provides a contemporary illustration of the 1523 State Opening of Parliament: the two dukes present are shown wearing coronets with their parliament robes, but the other Lords Temporal are all wearing black hats.

Each school is limited to two post-regional bids to the " Opening Round Championship Series.