A politician was approached by a man seeking the office of a minor public official who had just died.

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.

The Board of County Commissioners, the Sanitary Commission, the Planning and Zoning Board and other county official bodies use recording machines for all public business in order to prevent law suits and other misunderstandings about what actually happened at their meetings.

According to a World Bank official, a country that has around 12 percent rate of growth or even lower, at the range of 7 to 8 percent, can afford a level of public debt of up to 50 percent.

On 10 September 2009, following an Internet campaign, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an official public apology on behalf of the British government for " the appalling way he was treated ".

It is an official act of an authority in the field of public law to resolve an individual case with effect to the outside.

The state rooms, used for official and state entertaining, are open to the public each year for most of August and September, as part of the Palace's Summer Opening.

Early descriptions of the production process and glazing techniques used for bricks can be found in the Song Dynasty carpenter's manual Yingzao Fashi, published in 1103 by the government official Li Jie, who was put in charge of overseeing public works for the central government's construction agency.

Breton is not an official language of France, despite pleas from autonomists and others for official recognition and for the language to be guaranteed a place in schools, the media, and other aspects of public life.

BeOS R5 is considered the last official version, but BeOS R5. 1 " Dano ", which was under development before Be's sale to Palm and included the BeOS Networking Environment ( BONE ) networking stack, was leaked to the public shortly after the company's demise.

Belief in conspiracy theories has become a topic of interest for sociologists, psychologists and experts in folklore since at least the 1960s, when the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy eventually provoked an unprecedented public response directed against the official version of the case as expounded in the Report of the Warren Commission.

Alternatively, conspiracy theories may arise when evidence available in the public record does not correspond with the common or official version of events.

After tensions with the U. S. government came to a head in 1890, the church officially abandoned the public practice of polygamy in the United States, and eventually stopped performing official polygamous marriages altogether after a Second Manifesto in 1904.

According to Bruce L. Olsen, director of public affairs for the church, " The logo re-emphasizes the official name of the church and the central position of the Savior in its theology.

It was also for a time the official name of the first college in the public university system of New York City, later named ( and still called ) the City College of New York, and now officially the City College of the City University of New York.

In all, the positive view of Soviet lifelong presented to the public by the official media was rapidly fading, and the negative aspects of life in the Soviet Union were brought into the spotlight.

Although he was against the actions taken against the veterans and strongly advised MacArthur against taking a public role in it, he later wrote the Army's official incident report, endorsing MacArthur's conduct.

In May 1955 McCarthy threatened to issue subpoenas to White House personnel ; Eisenhower was furious, and issued an order as follows: " It is essential to efficient and effective administration that employees of the Executive Branch be in a position to be completely candid in advising with each other on official matters ... it is not in the public interest that any of their conversations or communications, or any documents or reproductions, concerning such advice be disclosed.

Since 1997 public authorities have been obliged to observe the official spelling by way of the Orthography Law.

* 1962 – Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of US President John F. Kennedy, US Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official not to make an optimistic public comment on the war's progress.

In a public ceremony at Antioch, the official version of events was clear: Galerius was responsible for the defeat ; Diocletian was not.

Following a prolonged period of retirement during the 50s, he returned to public office under Nero, serving as proconsul of the Africa province in 63, and accompanying the emperor during an official tour of Greece in 66.

The official opposition and political pressure groups, like the Muslim Brotherhood, were active in Egypt and made their views public.

" The Commission recommended legislative remedies consisting of an official Government apology and redress payments of $ 20, 000 to each of the survivors ; a public education fund was set up to help ensure that this would not happen again ( Public Law 100-383 ).

Jones ' life and legacy were celebrated January 12, 2012 with the official grand opening of The Chuck Jones Experience at Circus Circus Las Vegas.

Whereas his father and brother had concentrated consular power largely in the hands of the Flavian family, Domitian admitted a surprisingly large number of provincials and potential opponents to the consulship, allowing them to head the official calendar by opening the year as an ordinary consul.

It has been established by tradition over a hundred years ; and although in common with other British anthems, it has not been established as such by law, it has been used in the context of a national anthem at official governmental ceremonies including the opening of the Welsh Assembly and at receptions of the British monarchy.

Carter's own notes and photographic evidence, indicate that he, Lord Carnarvon and Lady Evelyn Herbert entered the burial chamber shortly after the tomb's discovery and before the official opening.

Hamaambo was the first to be laid to rest at the Heroes ' Acre memorial outside Windhoek, a few days after its official opening in 2002.

* 1910 – The date of Thomas A. Davis ' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, though the official founding date is November 23, 1910.

Ironically, the announcement came on the ninth anniversary of their complex's official opening, a fact not lost on many people.

This speculation was fueled in October 2004 when the official website startrek. com posted an opening credits sequence in which Scott Bakula recites a modified version of the famous speech, ending instead of with the gender-specific ' man ' or the gender-and species-neutral ' one ' but rather the species-specific ' human ', accompanied by " Archer's Theme ", the instrumental used as the closing credits music for the series.

After the advent of high-powered repeating rifles, single-shot rifles were primarily used for target shooting matches, with the first official match shooting event, opening at Creedmoor, Long Island in 1872.

The building of Tallinn Airport started in 1932, and the airport was opened officially on 20 September 1936, although it had been operational a good while before the official opening.

The official poster announcing the Pacific Railroad's grand opening.

Tremulis denied there was ever a factory convertible project, official or otherwise, but did state he had been working on body # 57 when the plant shut down and said specifically, " we were changing the rear window to a full wrap around and had already started cutting the opening for the ( 1949 model year ) re-style job ".

However, it took almost another two years for the official opening ceremony to be performed at Ferryfield, which occurred on 5 April 1956.

In 1972, Edward Downes, formerly associated with London's Royal Opera House, became Musical Director, and his first new production was the Australian premiere of Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier at the Princess Theatre, Melbourne, followed closely by Prokofiev's War and Peace as the opening night performance of the Sydney Opera House, a short time before the building's official opening.

In November 2010 Stratford-on-Avon District Council launched a re-branded official tourism website for the Stratford area called Discover Stratford after opening a new tourist information centre on Henley Street in May 2010, which has since moved back to the original location on Bridgefoot.

In 2012 Carlisle was one of the official stop off points for the Olympic torch before it made its way down to the Olympic Games opening ceremony in London's Olympic Stadium.

Police officers of the East German Volkspolizei wait for the official opening of the Brandenburg Gate on 22 December 1989.

Thus by the opening of the thirteenth century, it was already significant in trade with the continent of Europe and ranked as a port of the Hanseatic League It was one of the official " staple towns " of England, authorized to carry on the import and export trade.

Paul Turner began the company with five staff members in July 1970, the official opening happening at the Menzies Hotel, Sydney on 1 October 1970.

Her last big-screen appearance came in the spectacular disaster film The Towering Inferno ( 1974 ), in which she danced with Fred Astaire before a fire threatened partygoers in a new San Francisco skyscraper who were celebrating its official opening as tallest building in the world.

Pakistan was among the first nations to recognize the " Provisional Government of the Republic of Algeria " in exile on 19 September 1958, and facilitating the opening of an official mission in Karachi ( Pakistan ).

The building opened for teaching in October 2008, with an official opening by Her Majesty the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh on 5 November 2008.

In reality the works were finished on 24 August 2010 with the official opening of the last strengthened and raised retaining wall near the city of Harlingen, Netherlands.