The canton has only a long border with the rest of Switzerland.

Switzerland has had long and heated parliamentary debates about whether to follow the Dutch model on cannabis, most recently deciding against it in 2004 ; currently a ballot initiative is in the works on the question.

However the race distance can and does vary from dashes or sprints, which may be 500 m long, to races of marathon or ultra-marathon length races such as the Tour du Léman in Switzerland which is 160 km, and the 2 day, 185 km Corvallis to Portland Regatta held in Oregon, USA.

San Marino has had a long standing of neutrality, preceding that of Switzerland by several centuries.

There was at the time no mission compliant, long range Ambulance ICU Jet anywhere available including, except for one of four Swiss Air Ambulance Challenger Jets, based half way around the globe at the REGA HQ, Zurich International Airport in Switzerland.

Blatter has had a long and varied career, including posts such as Head of Public Relations of the Valaisan Tourist Board in his native Switzerland, as well as General Secretary of the Swiss Ice Hockey Federation.

The third act of Our Town was famously drafted after a long walk, during a brief affair with Steward in Zurich, Switzerland.

There are several tunnels underneath the Gotthard Pass connecting the canton to northern Switzerland: the first to be opened was the long Gotthard Rail Tunnel in 1882, replacing the pass road, connecting Airolo with Göschenen in the Canton of Uri.

Other historic places on the east shore of Lake Langdon are Our Lady of the Lake parochial school and the Mound Baptist Church, long cared for by Ulrich Eugster, an immigrant to the United States from Reute, Switzerland.

In April – May 2006, to celebrate 500 years in the line of duty a group of veteran guards marched from Switzerland to Rome, a month long journey through Italy.

Dalida collected 19 number one hit singles to her name in four languages ( French, Italian, German, and Arabic ) and has a long list of top 10, and top 20 hits in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Arabic, and accumulated myriad top selling singles and albums largely, in France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Greece, Canada, Russia, Japan, and Israel, spanning over forty years.

In 1895, while testing early radio apparatus in the Swiss Alps at Salvan, Switzerland in the Mont Blanc region, Marconi experimented with long wire " aerials ".

Prenuptial agreements have long been recognized as valid in several European countries, such as France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland.

The Engadin or Engadine ( German: Engadin, Italian: Engadina, Romansh: Engiadina ; tr: garden of the Inn ) is a long valley in the Swiss Alps located in the canton of Graubünden in southeast Switzerland.

This accommodated the long tradition of the rule of collective bodies in Switzerland.

On 22 June 2005 a short circuit on a long distance power transmission line in central Switzerland led to a chain reaction.

Wengernalpbahn ( or WAB ) is a 19. 091 km long, gauge rack railway line in Switzerland, which runs from Lauterbrunnen and Grindelwald ( two branches ) to Kleine Scheidegg, making it the world's longest continuous rack and pinion railway.

These banks have a long tradition in Switzerland, dating back to at least the revocation of the Edict of Nantes ( 1685 ).

The German sport kegeln or nine-pin bowling is played with nine pins, in broadly organized leagues and is also popular in many other countries with long German connections, including Austria, Switzerland, Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary and Liechtenstein.

ß and ss: In reformed orthography the grapheme ß ( a modernised typographical rendering of how sz appeared in traditional Gothic script ; it is seldom used in Switzerland ) is considered a separate letter that is to appear only after long vowels and diphthongs.

For a long time it was believed that he was born in Havana, where his family moved immediately after his birth ; however, following Carpentier's death, his birth certificate was found in Switzerland.

Not long after the establishment of Rainbow, a bank in Bern, Switzerland, becomes the site of a hostage situation, eventually determined to be led by wanted terrorist Ernst Model.

He was sentenced by a court-martial to a long term of fortress imprisonment, but succeeded in escaping to Switzerland, where he obtained a military posting.

This inaugural confederation grew through a long series of accessions to modern Switzerland.

The ISO 3166 standard is maintained by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency ( ISO 3166 / MA ), located at the ISO central office in Geneva, Switzerland.

Active diplomatic relationships are maintained with Europe, especially the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland, as well as with Russia, Japan, India, Indonesia, Egypt and China.

Prior to its formal accession to the United Nations, Switzerland had maintained an observer role at the UN's General Assembly and its Economic and Social Council.

Before the establishment of the State of Israel, Switzerland maintained a consulate in Jerusalem and a consular agency in Tel Aviv.

Its Old City, one of the best maintained in Switzerland, sits on a small rocky hill above the valley of the Sarine.

Alone in Europe save for Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Ireland and the Vatican, Sweden maintained neutrality throughout all World War II, but like the mentioned countries, cooperated and traded with both sides.

The claims also included the value of art works purported to have been stolen, " damages " to persons denied admission to Switzerland on the strength of refugee applications, and the value or cost of labor purported to have been performed by persons being maintained at Swiss government expense in displaced-person camps during the Holocaust, along with interest on such claims from the time of loss.

The other trains were maintained in Switzerland.

At first he maintained his refusal of Clairmont's companionship and only allowed her to be in his presence in the company of the Shelleys ; later, they resumed their sexual relationship for a time in Switzerland.

In 1967 he became director of the International School of Mountaineering at Leysin in Switzerland, a position he maintained until his death in 1977.

At the age of eighteen she travelled by herself in Switzerland, and the intimate relations she maintained with the continent throughout her life gave her literary work an especially cosmopolitan character.

This reference is maintained by PMOD in Davos, Switzerland.

Allen Dulles, the chief of OSS intelligence in Bern, Switzerland, maintained that the " Casablanca Declaration " was “ merely a piece of paper to be scrapped without further ado if Germany would sue for peace.

Switzerland maintained a state of armed neutrality during the first world war.

The University was initially set up and maintained by a federation of Benedictine abbeys from Salzburg, Switzerland, Bavaria and Austria.

In the group stage, Croatia maintained a goalless draw against Switzerland, a 2 – 2 draw against France, and a loss 4 – 2 loss in the final round of the group stage against England which saw the team being eliminated from the tournament.

There are 14 public and generic universities in Switzerland, 10 of which are maintained at cantonal level and usually offer a range of non-technical subjects.

Home to the annual Frankonian Switzerland Marathon, beginning in Forchheim and slowly climbing to Sachsenmühle-Wende, then back to Ebermannstadt, the area includes 375 km of some of the best trails for running, Nordic walking, and rambling in Germany maintained by the European-Community-funded Running Experience Project which was launched in July 2011.

Switzerland and Sweden are, independently of each other, famed for their armed neutrality, which they maintained throughout both World War I and World War II.

The project is actively maintained by Andreas Steffen who is a professor for Security in Communications at the University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil, Switzerland.