From time to time it has been proposed as a replacement for The Star-Spangled Banner as the national anthem, including television sign-offs.

At various times in the more than 100 years that have elapsed since the song was written, particularly during the John F. Kennedy administration, there have been efforts to give " America the Beautiful " legal status either as a national hymn, or as a national anthem equal to, or in place of, " The Star-Spangled Banner ", but so far this has not succeeded.

While that national dichotomy has stymied any effort at changing the tradition of the national anthem, " America the Beautiful " continues to be held in high esteem by a large number of Americans.

Popularity of the song increased greatly following the September 11, 2001 attacks ; at some sporting events it was sung in addition to the traditional singing of the national anthem.

* 1954 – Radio Pakistan broadcasts the " Qaumī Tarāna ", the national anthem of Pakistan for the first time.

It has become a song that inspires hope in the wake of tragedy, becoming a sort of " spiritual national anthem " according to authors Mary Rourke and Emily Gwathmey.

* 1883 – The first public performance of the Dominican Republic's national anthem, Himno Nacional.

" Advance Australia Fair " is the official national anthem of Australia.

Before its adoption as Australia's national anthem, Advance Australia Fair saw considerable use elsewhere.

* 1984 – Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.

The term anthem means either a specific form of Anglican church music ( in music theory and religious contexts ), or more generally, a song ( or composition ) of celebration, usually acting as a symbol for a distinct group of people, as in the term " national anthem " or " sports anthem ".

The word " anthem " is commonly used to describe a celebratory song or composition for a distinct group, as in the term " national anthem ".

* 1792 – La Marseillaise ( the French national anthem ) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.

In 2001, the National Guard unit was designated an official military unit of the Bulgarian army and one of the symbols of state authority, along with the flag, the coat of arms and the national anthem.

As the Lions do not represent a single nation-state, they do not have a national anthem.

The most recent was in May 2012, when Washington Post columnist Mike Wise published a piece entitled " Fans who yell ‘ Oh !’ during national anthem are tainting a moment meant to unite Americans ".

The most famous bush ballad is " Waltzing Matilda ", which has been called " the unofficial national anthem of Australia ".

One of his major works was to bring " Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau " ( the Welsh national anthem ) back in Brittany and create lyrics in Breton.

As the anniversary of Confederation, Dominion Day, and later Canada Day, was the date set for a number of important events, such as the first national radio network hookup by the Canadian National Railway ( 1927 ), the inauguration of the CBC's cross-country television broadcast ( 1958 ), the flooding of the Saint Lawrence Seaway ( 1958 ), the first colour television transmission in Canada ( 1966 ), the inauguration of the Order of Canada ( 1967 ), and the establishment of " O Canada " as the country's national anthem ( 1980 ).

-- liberal considers that the need for a national economy with controls that will assure his conception of social justice is so great that individual and local liberties as well as democratic processes may have to yield before it.

Internal national responsibility is a societal response to the impact of the Industrial Revolution.

Already accidental war is a silent guest at the discussions within the Kennedy Administration about the urgency of disarmament and nearly all other questions of national security.

It is well then that in this hour both of `` national peril '' and of `` national opportunity '' we can take counsel with the men who made the nation.

that is, about one-half of one per cent, which looks pretty `` tokenish '' to me, especially in an institution which professes to be `` national ''.

Each is still glorified as a national hero.

This is, however, symptomatic of our national malaise.

Hence government must establish greater controls upon corporations so that their activities promote what is deemed essential to the national interest.

At the national and international level, then, what is the highest kind of morality for the private citizen represents an instance of political immorality.

In this domain the simple fact of coexistence in the same local, national, and world community is enough to guarantee that we cannot refrain from having some effect, large or small, upon Gentile-Jewish relations.

If Jews are identified as a religious body in a controversy that comes before a national or international tribunal, it is obviously compatible with the goal of human dignity to protect freedom of worship.

This, it is urged, would relieve the national committee from the necessity of appealing to the trust magnates.

The alternative to this is that if a conservative candidate is nominated the national committee will have to appeal to the trusts for their campaign funds, and in doing this will incur obligations which would make a Democratic victory absolutely fruitless.

The national average is more than $4 and that figure is considered by experts in the mental health field to be too low.

This is the key fact emerging from Sunday's national election.

Engaged as it is in a battle for world trade as a condition of national survival, this country can have little patience with labor's family feuds.

The concept of labor as a special class is outmoded, and in the task confronting America as bastion of the free world, labor must learn to put the national interest first if it is itself to survive.

But competent observers believe he is making progress, particularly toward what Sen. Jackson lists as the primary need -- `` a clearer understanding of where our vital national interests lie and what we must do to promote them ''.

The move for establishment of a national seashore park on 30,000 acres of Cape Cod, from Provincetown to Chatham, is strengthened by President Kennedy's interest in that area.

Carbondale is in the Herrin-Murphysboro-West Frankfort labor market, where unemployment has been substantially higher than the national average.

In other words, the Secretary General is to be a nonpartisan, international servant, not a political, national one.

" Lofsöngur " (" Hymn "), also known as " Ó Guð vors lands " (" O, God of Our Land "), is the national anthem of Iceland.

As he entered the Quadrangle, in an incident which made national news headlines, Ó Cuív was met by a group of fifty students protesting the introduction of fees, one of whom the Minister later accused of manhandling his secretary.

1975 Federal Bureau of Investigation documents describe Ó Brádaigh as a " national security threat " and a " dedicated revolutionary undeterred by threat or personal risk " and show that the visa ban was requested by the British Foreign Office and supported by the Dublin government.

Spillane was educated at the local national school and later attended St. Brendan's College in Killarney, where one of his best friends was future Kerry teammate Páidí Ó Sé.

Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh (; born 20 August 1930 ) is an Irish Gaelic games commentator for the Irish national radio and television, RTÉ.