With thirty franchised member clubs ( 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada ), the NBA is widely considered to be the premier men's professional basketball league in the world.

It was here that the single zero roulette wheel became the premier game, and over the years was exported around the world, except in the United States where the double zero wheel had remained dominant.

In July 1961 during the Berlin Crisis of 1961 KGB chief Alexander Shelepin sent a memorandum to Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev containing an array of proposals to create a situation in various areas of the world which would favor dispersion of attention and forces by the US and their satellites, and would tie them down during the settlement of the question of a German peace treaty and West Berlin.

A world cup is generally considered the premier competition in its sport, with the victor attaining the highest honour in that sport and able to lay claim to the title of their sport's best.

The Henry Doorly Zoo is widely considered one of the premier zoos in the world.

Grand Canyon National Park is one of the world ’ s premier natural attractions, attracting about five million visitors per year.

The album contains world premier recordings of pieces by Franks Lyons and Richard Charlton.

The West became one of the premier agricultural areas in the world.

The world premier screening of a restored print was held at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco on April 26, 2009 as part of the San Francisco International Film Festival.

" Goldstein was concerned about being saddled with a failing medical school, but excited about the opportunity to secure a " campus not far from New York, the premier Jewish community in the world, and only from Boston, one of the important Jewish population centers.

The Fulton Opera House is home to its own actor's company, which stages seven theatrical productions per year including plays ( Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap, 2007 ) and musicals ( Oliver !, 2006 ), some of which are world premier originals ( critically acclaimed Lightning Rod, 2005 ).

In August – September 2010, Swit starred in the world premier of the Mark Miller play, Amorous Crossings at the Alhambra Dinner Theatre in Jacksonville, Florida, directed by Todd Booth.

The Columbia River, which runs right by the city of Hood River, has become a premier windsurfing destination, attracting windsurfers from throughout the United States and around the world.

Around the same time, the Alexander Smith and Sons Carpet Company ( in the Saw Mill River Valley ) expanded to 45 buildings, 800 looms, and over 4, 000 workers and was known as one of the premier carpet producing centers in the world.

The following year he solidified his position as one of the premier amateur fighters in the world by winning the 132 lb gold medal at the Olympic Festival, seizing the U. S. Junior Championships at 132 lb, and by becoming the youngest fighter ever to win the U. S. Championships.

Mystic Seaport is the nation ’ s leading maritime museum and one of the premier maritime museums in the world.

Opened in 1971, it is one of Britain's premier National Trails and draws walkers from throughout the world.

It is the premier clay court tennis tournament in the world and the second of the four annual Grand Slam tournaments – the other three are the Australian Open, US Open and Wimbledon.

Bridgeport Reservoir, Twin Lakes, Virginia Lakes, Green Creek, the East Walker River, the West Walker River and numerous small tributaries and backcountry lakes offer some of the premier Rainbow, Brown and Cutthroat trout fishing to be found anywhere in the world.

Reports of widespread poaching of tigers in two of the premier Tiger Reserves of North India-Sariska and Ranthambore is heartbreaking news for tiger lovers all around the world.

As it was written in a program note that accompanied the movie's premier " It is a modern poem presented with medieval material that has been very freely handled ... The script in particular — embodies a mid-twentieth century existentialist angst .... Still, to be fair to Bergman, one must allow him his artistic license, and the script's modernisms may be justified as giving the movie's medieval theme a compelling and urgent contemporary relevance ... Yet the film succeeds to a large degree because it is set in the Middle Ages, a time that can seem both very remote and very immediate to us living in the modern world .... Ultimately The Seventh Seal should be judged as a historical film by how well it combines the medieval and the modern.

2006 – The third generation Vauxhall Corsa goes on sale, after having its world premier launch at the 2006 British International Motor Show at ExCeL London, and narrowly misses out on the European Car of the Year award.

* Adelaide Fringe Festival, Australia's premier arts festival that is the second largest arts festival in the world

As the Germans were preparing to depart, the Bolsheviks were keen to enter the territory to re-claim Belarus, the Ukraine, and the Baltics to realize Soviet premier Vladimir Lenin's desire to dominate Central Europe and create the world revolution.

If anyone asked us, after we made the remark that the suffering was a bad thing, whether we should think it relevant to what we said to learn that the incident had never occurred and no pain had been suffered at all, we should say that it made all the difference in the world, that what we were asserting to be bad was precisely the suffering we thought had occurred back there, that if this had not occurred, there was nothing left to be bad, and that our assertion was in that case mistaken.

The exploration of how the world would look today if various changes occurred and what these alternate worlds would be like forms the basis of this vast subject matter.

While controlled clinical trials of atypicals reported that extrapyramidal symptoms occurred in 5 – 15 % of patients, a study of bipolar disorder in a real world clinical setting found a rate of 63 %, questioning the generalizability of the trials.

The world premiere occurred at the Princess Cinema in Waterloo, Ontario, in early 2006.

This did not happen all around the world at the same time, but occurred sporadically, generally in times of war or financial crisis, beginning in the early part of the 20th century and continuing across the world until the late 20th century, when the regime of floating fiat currencies came into force.

Natural theology is a facet of the revolution in world view that occurred in Europe in the 17th century.

Nevertheless, they expect that similar patterns will occur, or have occurred, first in other developed nations and then in the developing world as there is a limit to how much environmental factors can improve intelligence.

Lovecraft clearly states that his contact to numerous different people through letter-writing was one of the main factors in broadening his view of the world: " I found myself opened up to dozens of points of view which would otherwise never have occurred to me.

Herbert Hoover, acting as a main investor, financier, mining speculator and organizer of men, played a major role in the important metallurgical developments that occurred in Broken Hill in the first decade of the twentieth century, developments that had a great impact on the world mining and production of silver, lead and zinc.

Thus, " the onus of being the last ' People of the Book ' engendered an ethos of " early on and the establishment of important book repositories throughout the Muslim world has occurred ever since.

The Iberian Peninsula and southeast Europe are other regions in the world where such instances occurred once no longer under Muslim rule.

It remains an essential crop in Europe ( especially eastern and central Europe ), where per capita production is still the highest in the world, but the most rapid expansion over the past few decades has occurred in southern and eastern Asia.

It remains an essential crop in Europe ( especially eastern and central Europe ), where per capita production is still the highest in the world, but the most rapid expansion over the past few decades has occurred in southern and eastern Asia.

As recently as early 1950s an estimated 50 million cases of smallpox occurred in the world each year.

Shortly before gaining independence an event occurred that in the years to come would have deep influence on the country and its relations with the outside world, mainly France.

One of the most significant milestones in the campaign to abolish slavery throughout the world occurred in England in 1772, with British judge Lord Mansfield, whose opinion in Somersett's Case was widely taken to have held that slavery was illegal in England.

With the exception of Australia, where spear throwing technology such as the woomera predominated, the sling became common all over the world, although it is not clear whether this occurred because of cultural diffusion or independent invention.

In fact, the labial is the least stable of the voiceless stops in the languages of the world, as the unconditioned sound change → (→ → Ø ) is quite common in unrelated languages, having occurred in the history of Classical Japanese, Classical Arabic, and Proto-Celtic, for instance.

* The Teeth of the Tiger ( Late Spring 2006, based on the age of Jack Ryan Jr., and summer approaching at one point ) The U. S. is now engaged in a global war on terrorism, in response to the September 11th attacks which occurred in the Ryanverse as they did in the real world.

Among the noteworthy events which have occurred in Tecumseh is the world famous Dynamic Kernels tithing project.

Increasing acceptance of homosexuality occurred in the western world throughout the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century.

* Increased awareness and opposition to white-minority apartheid rule in South Africa occurred in the western world.