A veteran diplomat with an extraordinary knowledge of Russian language, history and literature, Kennan recalls how, at the time of Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union in 1941, he penned a private note to a State Department official, expressing the hope that `` never would we associate ourselves with Russian purposes in the areas of eastern Europe beyond her own boundaries ''.

The official Austrian dictionary, " Das Österreichische Wörterbuch ", gives grammar and spelling rules defining the official language.

For many years, Austria had a special form of the language for official government documents.

For most speakers ( even native speakers ), this form of the language is generally difficult to understand, as it contains many highly specialised terms for diplomatic, internal, official, and military matters.

This is primarily due to the widespread usage of the Aramaic language as both a lingua franca and the official language of the Neo-Assyrian, and its successor, the Achaemenid Empire.

The use of a single official language, which modern scholarship has dubbed Official Aramaic or Imperial Aramaic, can be assumed to have greatly contributed to the astonishing success of the Achaemenids in holding their far-flung empire together for as long as they did.

Though the U. S. federal government has no official language, English is the common language used by the federal government and is considered the de facto language of the United States because of its widespread use.

Although English has no official status in the Constitution, Australian English is Australia's de facto official language and is the first language of the majority of the population.

Under Seleucid rule ( 330 BC – approximately 150 BC ), however, Aramaic gave way to Greek as the official administrative language.

Aramaic was marginalised as an official language, but remained spoken in both Assyria and Babylonia by the general populace.

It has the widest geographical and racial distribution of all the official languages of South Africa, and is widely spoken and understood as a second or third language.

Belize ( formerly British Honduras ) is a country located on the north eastern coast of Central America and it is the only country in the area where English is the official language, although Creole and Spanish are more commonly spoken.

The language has official status in those territories that are within the Basque Autonomous Community, where it is spoken and promoted heavily, but only partially in Navarre.

It was a language of rich literary activity and the official administration language of the Second Bulgarian Empire.

It was influenced by its non-Slavic neighbors in the Balkan language area ( mostly grammatically ) and later also by Turkish, which was the official language of the Ottoman Empire, in the form of the Ottoman Turkish language, mostly lexically.

The official cause of death was a heart attack while he was staying in Bern, Switzerland, for his general medical checkup.

Mostly, they have chosen to rent apartments or hotel suites in Bern ( at their own expense ), However, they are entitled to use the Federal Council's country estate, Lohn, for holidays ; this estate is also used to host official guests of the Swiss Confederation.

While Councillors can draw on an Army security detail if they need personal protection ( in particular during official events ), it is more usual to encounter them without any escort at all in the streets, restaurants and tramways of Bern.

Swiss Federal Railways, usually abbreviated in English using the German SBB (, Schweizerische Bundesbahnen ;, Chemins de fer fédéraux suisses ;, Ferrovie federali svizzere ; Romansh: Viafiers federalas svizras ; VFS ( Romansh ) is not in official use ) is the national railway company of Switzerland headquartered in Bern.

The first train running on the account of the Swiss Confederation ran during the night of New Year's Day in 1901 from Zurich via Bern to Geneva, although 1 January 1902 is regarded as the official birth date of Swiss Federal Railways.

The transcribed tape of Kirov's confession to Leipzig shows that Karla is secretly diverting official funds ( US $ 10, 000 every month ) to a bank in Thun in Switzerland and misappropriating other resources using a commercial attache of the Soviet embassy in Bern, named Grigoriev.

The original green cars, built by the local machine company Pümpin & Herzog ( later part of Von Roll ) were replaced in 1914 by a new set of cars on account of the Swiss national exhibition in Bern, and the official name of the funicular was changed from Drahtseilbahn Aarziele to Drahtseilbahn Marzili-Stadt Bern.

In the year 1803 the canton Bern was divided into official districts and Aarwangen became seat of the district of Aarwangen.

First page of an official copy of Valerius Anshelm's Berner Chronik, written by his son Peter Paul Anshelm for the city council of Berne. Image source:, courtesy of the Burgerbibliothek Bern.

On the face of it, it is because he employs deductive techniques alien to official police routine.

According to the official interpretation of the Charter, a member cannot be penalized by not having the right to vote in the General Assembly for nonpayment of financial obligations to the `` special '' United Nations' budgets, and of course cannot be expelled from the Organization ( which you suggested in your editorial ), due to the fact that there is no provision in the Charter for expulsion.

This is an official preliminary contest of the Miss America Pageant held each September in Atlantic City.

The `` C '' club is composed of the men of the College who have won an official letter in Carleton athletics.

Be sure that this information is reasonably official and not just an unfounded opinion.

We were to discover, in fact, that quite a number of people share with us the impression that, in contrast to other Soviet regions, Moscow's atmosphere is depressingly subdued and official.

We have a brief glimpse of the Tsar's public personality, the `` official Boris '', but our real focus is on the excitement of the crowd -- a significant contrast with its halfhearted acclamation in the opening scene, its bitter resentment and fury in the final act.

Brooklyn College is distinctive for not having an official drinking place.

A more official representative is the Secretary of the Interior.

Even then, as you go into the house oppressed by the knowledge that something is cooking and that your house has passed under this unaccountable, official control, could you go on forgetting that you still had that ridiculous hat on your head and you were still carrying that childish horn in your hand??

But the simple truth is that higher education has never really been an official American Catholic project ; ;

Baseball commissioner Ford Frick has ruled that Ruth's record will remain official unless it is broken in 154 games.

and one U.S. official said: `` The key question now is which side picks up the phone first ''.

A top American official, after a look at Europe's factories, thinks the U.S. is in a `` very serious situation '' competitively.

This is often done in advance of the update of reporting databases and / or the issuance of official documents.

The standardized form of Austrian German for official texts and schools is defined by the Austrian Dictionary (), published under the authority of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture.

Schweitzer concludes that the 1st century theology, originating in the lifetimes of those who first followed Jesus, is both incompatible with, and far removed from, those beliefs later made official by the Roman Emperor Constantine in 325 CE.

The official name of the celebration in the Roman Rite liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church is " The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed ".

* 1933 – The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.

* 1962 – The first official Panda crossing is opened outside Waterloo station, London.