the Honorable Robert Wagner, Sr., at that time a justice of the New York Supreme Court, was on the reception committee.

Despite his apprehensions about his personal safety, Palfrey's reception in New Orleans was more than cordial.

The fundamental difficulty of which the Selden case was `` a striking ( though not singular ) example '', concluded Hough, `` will remain as long as testimony is taken without any authoritative judicial officer present, and responsible for the maintenance of discipline, and the reception or exclusion of testimony ''.

A reception was held at the church.

His reception remained warmer in America than Britain, and he continued to publish novels and short stories, but by the late 1930s the audience for Milne's grown-up writing had largely vanished: he observed bitterly in his autobiography that a critic had said that the hero of his latest play (" God help it ") was simply " Christopher Robin grown up ... what an obsession with me children are become!

Hume was disappointed with the reception of the Treatise, which " fell stillborn from the press ," as he put it, and so tried again to disseminate his more developed ideas to the public by writing a shorter and more polemical work.

Politicians often resent this need for separation – sometimes sending their bodyguards away from them for personal or publicity reasons ; U. S. President William McKinley did this at the public reception where he was assassinated.

The album continued Dylan's artistic comeback following 1997's Time Out of Mind, and was given an even more enthusiastic reception.

It also housed Station X, a secret radio intercept station, although interception was soon moved to a location with better reception.

The neoclassical architect, Sir Robert Smirke, was asked to draw up plans for an eastern extension to the Museum "... for the reception of the Royal Library, and a Picture Gallery over it ..." and put forward plans for today's quadrangular building, much of which can be seen today.

It was released the following January to a positive reception.

For example, following the American Revolution in 1776, one of the first legislative acts undertaken by each of the newly independent states was to adopt a " reception statute " that gave legal effect to the existing body of English common law to the extent that American legislation or the Constitution had not explicitly rejected English law.

" Thus, even when reception was effected by a constitution, the common law was still subject to alteration by a legislature's statute.

In the other five provinces and the three territories, reception was governed by reception statutes.

In the four Atlantic provinces ( Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador ), the reception of English law was automatic, under the principle set out by Blackstone relating to settled colonies.

No reception statute was necessary.

These territories were considered to have been settled by British colonists, and therefore the reception of English law was automatic.

However, given the long history of control by the Hudson's Bay Company, there was some uncertainty as to the date of reception.

When Hong Kong was handed over to China in 1997, Hong Kong retained the common law through a reception statute in Chapter I, Article 8 of the Basic Law of Hong Kong:

Justification ( sixth session ) was declared to be offered upon the basis of human cooperation with divine grace as opposed to the Protestant doctrine of passive reception of grace.

It originally stood for Community Access Television or Community Antenna Television, from cable television's origins in 1948: in areas where over-the-air reception was limited by distance from transmitters or mountainous terrain, large " community antennas " were constructed, and cable was run from them to individual homes.

At a reception for new members of Congress, Oregon Democrat Maurine Neuberger, taking the Senate seat held by her husband Richard until his death last March, got a brotherly buss from Democratic Elder Statesman Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Ambassador-designate to the U.N..

After a brief terror-raid into Ottoman held Bosnia, culminating in the sack of Sarajevo, Eugene returned to Vienna in November and a triumphal reception.

The Meriden Daily Journal stated that Davis, at a reception held in New Orleans in May 1887, urged southerners to be loyal to the nation.

On 1 June 1932 Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. held a reception for Baba at Pickfair where he delivered a message to Hollywood.

Pope Benedict XVI held on 19 September 2008 a reception for the conference participants, where he praised Pius XII as a pope who made every effort to save Jews during the war.

Madame Chiang made a rare public appearance in 1995 when she attended a reception held on Capitol Hill in her honor in connection with celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II.

* 1995 U. S. senators held a reception for Soong May-ling in recognition of China's role as a U. S. ally in World War II.

In addition, Kansas City's secondary held Minnesota all pro receiver Gene Washington to one reception for 9 yards.

A wedding reception is a party held after the completion of a marriage ceremony.

It is held usually as hospitality for those who have attended the wedding, hence the name reception: the couple receives society, in the form of family and friends, for the first time as a married couple.

Benigni was feted in San Francisco at a special reception held by the National Italian American Foundation ( NIAF ) in his honor in May 24, 2009.

The cost of service was prohibitive for many users, reception indoors was difficult and the bulkiness and expense of the hand held devices when compared to terrestrial cellular mobile phones discouraged adoption among potential users.

For example British Prime Minister Tony Blair held a Champagne reception to celebrate London winning the right to host the 2012 Olympic Games.

During the 1960 talks in Brussels on Congolese independence, the U. S. Embassy held a reception to gain a better sense of the Congolese delegation.

At the wedding reception held at the local VFW bar, the guys get drunk, dance, sing and have a good time, but then notice a soldier in a US Army's Special Forces uniform.

Eight days thereafter, a public reception is held, during which the new member makes a speech thanking his counterparts for his election.

Their daughter, Mrs. Doris Lauridson, held her wedding reception in the ballroom on the second floor in 1950.

That evening, the married couples on Welsh Hill held a New Year reception at Owen's Hall, featuring an " old time " hoop dance.

At a concert held in Litomyšl's Philosophical Academy he played a piano arrangement of Auber's overture to La muette de Portici, to a rapturous reception.

A reception held in her honour was attended by Ed Begley, Jr. and Fionnula Flanagan.

Following the commencement ceremony, a reception was held, at which time, the Tallmadge High School Alumni Association was organized.

; Stricture against issuing congratulation for mixed marriagess ; prohibition of allowing an intermarriage reception to be held in Conservative synagogues ; Blowing the Shofar after Ma ' ariv following Yom Kippur ; May an avowed atheist serve as a Sheliah tzibur?

Atlantic City, New Jersey Mayor Joseph Lazarow was recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records for a July 1977 publicity stunt, in which the mayor shook more than 11, 000 hands in a single day, breaking the record previously held by President Theodore Roosevelt, who had set the record with 8, 510 handshakes at a White House reception on 1 January 1907.