A head of state is an official who holds the highest position in a governance system of the state and has the vested powers to act as the chief public representative of a country.

London once more holds an official public St Patrick's Day celebration, which although having been cancelled in the 1970s because of Irish Republican violence, is now a national celebration, with over 60 percent of the population regularly celebrating the day regardless of their ethnic origins.

It is the official language of the Republic of Macedonia and holds the status of official minority language in parts of Albania, Romania and Serbia.

In such systems, the head of state or the head of state's official representative ( i. e. the monarch, president, or governor-general ) usually holds a largely ceremonial position, although often with reserve powers.

In such systems, the head of state or the head of state's official representative ( i. e., the monarch, president, or governor-general ) usually holds a purely ceremonial position.

Catholic doctrine holds that any bishop can validly ordain any baptised man to the priesthood or to the episcopacy, provided that he has the correct intention and uses a doctrinally acceptable rite of ordination, whether or not he has official permission of any sort to perform the ordination, and indeed whether or not he and the ordinand are Catholics.

** The 32-member Transitional Executive Committee holds its first meeting in Cape Town, marking the first meeting of an official government body in South Africa with Black members.

* July – The Hanseatic League, after 400 years of operation, holds its last official meeting in Lübeck.

According to the Guinness book of records, Eugene Andreev ( USSR ) holds the official FAI record for the longest free-fall parachute jump ( without drogue chute ) after falling for 80, 380 ft ( 24, 500 m ) from an altitude of 83, 523 ft ( 25, 457 m ) near the city of Saratov, Russia on 1 November 1962.

In Canada municipal titles vary from province to province, but the highest official of a First Nation community holds the title of chief.

The mayor, who holds little executive power, is periodically selected among current city council members to chair meetings and is " considered the official representative of the city.

Tradition holds that it was at the Middlebrook encampment that the first official flag of the United States was unfurled, after a law to adopt a national flag had been passed by Congress on June 14, 1777.

Both institutes promoted English-French bilingualism, although the OLBI holds an expanded mandate, to strengthen research, innovation and outreach efforts in official languages and bilingualism.

e holds no official position in the musical life of the country Britain ; he does not teach in any of the academies, he is not even an honorary professor or doctor of music.

The arcade cabinets have since become fairly rare. Stan Szczepanski holds the official world record of 187, 880 points.

Given that there is no constitutional office of Deputy Prime Minister, with the position being recreated on a case by case basis, the person who holds the post has no official residence.

The Conservative Party now holds a majority government, with the NDP ( New Democratic Party ) as the official opposition.

In official publications the movement claims that " the partition between Right-wing and Left-wing is anachronistic "; it holds " dovish " political opinions and believes in the solution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by establishing an independent and demilitarized Palestinian state ( see two-state solution ).

This official statement holds that

A court official holds the mace of the Lord President of the Court of Session, during a Doors Open Day.

in the official seal holds a shield that carries a lamp, a cogwheel and ; a volcano and tree ( sometimes rendered erroneously as a star and the planet Saturn ).

The current Latin Vulgate, the official Bible of the Catholic Christian church, states that God holds man responsible for the care and fate of all earthly creatures.

Cribbage holds a special place among American submariners, serving as an " official " pastime.

In the even simpler case of a collection of one set, a choice function just corresponds to an element, so this instance of the axiom of choice says that every nonempty set has an element ; this holds trivially.

The Andy Warhol Museum in his native city, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives.

The Department of Prints and Drawings holds the national collection of Western Prints and Drawings.

The Mack Library ( named for John Sephus Mack ) holds a collection of more than 300, 000 books and includes seating for 1, 200 as well as a computer lab and a computer classroom.

The vase collection of the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, Greece holds a 5th century BC lekythos with a depiction of this episode described as " Odysseus ' companions turned into swine "

The national collection is housed in the National Gallery of Scotland, located on the Mound, and now linked to the Royal Scottish Academy, which holds regular major exhibitions of painting.

If the collection holds guns of criminal interest, such as pistols or sub machine-guns the police may demand a very high safety level on the keeping of the guns ( such as security windows and vault doors ).

The original handwritten proclamation signed by President Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of State James Madison, that informed the American public of the landmark deal of the Louisiana Purchase, was acquired in 1996 by Walter Scott Jr. of Omaha, Nebraska, who holds it in his private collection.

The collection of Moderna Museet holds key pieces of, among others, Marcel Duchamp, Louise Bourgeois, Pablo Picasso, Niki de Saint Phalle, Salvador Dalí, Carolee Schneemann, Henri Matisse och Robert Rauschenberg

The International Potato Center, based in Lima, Peru, holds an ISO-accredited collection of potato germplasm.

The museum also holds many precise and detailed figure studies done in his youth under his father ’ s tutelage, as well as the extensive collection of Jaime Sabartés, his close friend and personal secretary.

The National Museum of Australia in Canberra holds a significant collection of memorabilia relating to Robert Menzies, including a range of medals and civil awards received by Sir Robert such as his Jubilee and Coronation medals, Order of Australia, Companion of Honour and US Legion of Merit.

When dealing with garbage collection schemes, it's often helpful to think of the reference graph, which is a directed graph where the vertices are objects and there is an edge from an object A to an object B if A holds a reference to B.

Michael Freeden in his study Ideologies and Political Theory ( 1996 ) states that all socialists share five themes: the first is that socialism posits that society is more than a mere collection of individuals ; second, that it considers human welfare a desirable objective ; third, that it considers humans by nature to be active and productive ; fourth, it holds the belief of human equality ; and fifth, that history is progressive and will create positive change on the condition that humans work to achieve such change.

Tate holds the national collection of British art from 1500 to the present day and international modern and contemporary art.

The collection holds a substantial number of pre-1700 editions of his works, including the Novum Instrumentum of 1516.

In larger institutions, there may be a curator assigned to each collection of objects the museum holds.

" Kāma " which is one of the three goals of Hindu life, means sensual or sexual pleasure, and " sūtra " literally means a thread or line that holds things together, and more metaphorically refers to an aphorism ( or line, rule, formula ), or a collection of such aphorisms in the form of a manual.

* The University College London library holds a copy in ' Strong Room E ' of its Rare Books collection.

The collection also holds a third edition copy.

The library holds many books from his third library collection.

The National Art Gallery holds a collection of works mostly by Bulgarian authors, while the National Gallery for Foreign Art displays exclusively foreign art, mostly from India, Africa, China and Europe.

The crypt of the Alexander Nevsky cathedral holds a collection of Eastern Orthodox icons from the 9th to the 19th century.

In addition, the South African Legion holds a street collection to gather funds to assist in welfare work among military veterans.

* University of Victoria, which holds a significant collection of Miller's manuscripts and correspondence, including the corrected typescripts for Max and Quiet Days in Clichy, as well as Miller's lengthy correspondence with Alfred Perlès.