* 2007 – Conventional-Train World Speed Record: a French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record.

The government's official line for these martial law provisions stemmed from the claim that emergency provisions were necessary, since the Communists and Kuomintang ( KMT ) were still in a state of war.

This was a way to allow PDP-8 software to be run even after the official end-of-life announcement for the Digital PDP-8 product line.

Despite the official names " National Comics " and " National Periodical Publications ", the line used the logo " Superman-DC " throughout ( the DC logo could be seen on their covers and ads as early as 1940 ), and the company became known colloquially as DC Comics for years before the official adoption of that name in 1977.

Late in HT production, use of the new Tri-Matic automatic transmission, first seen in the LC Torana was phased in as Powerglide stock was exhausted, but Holden's official line was that the HG of 1971 was the first full-size Holden to receive it .< ref > Bebbington ( 1998 ), p. 36.

However, in the late 1980s some official statements indicated that the party intended to reduce its appointment authority, particularly in the area of economic management, in line with Mikhail Gorbachev's reform efforts.

Most official maps no longer show the diamond-shaped neutral zone, but rather draw the border line approximately through the centre of the territory.

In 1812, Congress approved a request for an official survey of the line.

This decision was the last border adjustment, putting an end to years of debate over the official boundary line.

The Secretary of State is the first Cabinet official in the order of precedence and in the presidential line of succession.

As the highest-ranking member of the cabinet, the Secretary of State is the third-highest official of the executive branch of the Federal Government of the United States, after the President and Vice President and is fourth in line to succeed the Presidency, coming after the Vice President, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the President pro tempore of the Senate.

According to official sources from the United Nations, the percentage of people below the national poverty line has decreased during the presidency of Hugo Chávez, from 48. 1 % in 2002 to 28 % in 2008.

" Under the Communist Party pressure, Dadiani had to revise both the title and the plot to bring it into line of the official ideology.

A run becomes official when an athlete and their sled, in contact with one another, crosses the finish line.

Harthacnut was the semi-legendary founder of the Danish royal house at the beginning of the tenth century, and his son, Gorm the Old, was the first in the official line ( the ' Old ' in his name being to this effect ).

The name means " of Eastern Churches " in Latin, and is taken from the first line of the decree, as is customary with Roman Catholic official documents.

Signs on Interstate 95 from the end of the Bruckner Expressway in The Bronx to the Connecticut state line ( and vice versa ) as well as Interstate 87 and Interstate 90 between the Bronx-Westchester line ( on I-87 ) and the New York-Pennsylvania line ( on I-90 ) designate the name as Governor Thomas E. Dewey Thruway, though this official designation is rarely used in reference to these roads.

In this role he took part in the 1969 international conference of the Communist parties in Moscow, where his delegation disagreed with the " official " political line, and refused to support the final report.

She charmed the public in Fiji when shaking hands with a long line of official guests, as a stray dog walked in on the ceremony and she shook its paw as well.

But in cultures which allow the ruler to have several wives ( e. g. four in Islam ) and / or official concubines, for these women sometimes collectively referred to as harem there are often specific rules determining their hierarchy and a variety of titles, which may distinguish between those whose offspring can be in line for the succeesion or not, or specifically who is mother to the heir to the throne.

The top of the strike zone is defined in the official rules as a horizontal line at the midpoint between the top of the batter's shoulders and the top of the uniform pants.

These include Falun Gong's popularity, China ’ s history of quasi-religious movements which turned into violent insurrections, its independence from the state and refusal to toe the Party line, internal power politics within the Communist Party, and Falun Gong's moral and spiritual content, which put it at odds with the atheist aspects of the official Marxist ideology.

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.

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.

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.

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.