Canadian Ambassador William Crosbie makes remarks during the opening of the refurbished Turquoise Mountain Foundation in Kabul on May 9, 2011.

Horace makes reference to this in his address to Maecenas at the opening of his first books of Odes with the expression " atavis edite regibus " ( descendant of kings ).

This makes it possible for a document to carry a macro, not obvious to the user, which will be executed automatically on opening the document.

The opening lines of the poem read: ' Bring torch for Cabbalah brand new treatise, / Numerology also makes much sense, / O Astraea!

When every player has made a bid, the player to the left of the dealer makes the opening lead.

Once the opening is completed, O's task is to follow the above list of priorities in order to force the draw, or else to gain a win if X makes a weak play.

This makes the game considerably longer and more involved than tic-tac-toe, with a definite opening, middle game and endgame.

" Beckett makes this point emphatically clear in the opening notes to Film: " No truth value attaches to the above, regarded as of merely structural and dramatic convenience.

Ono performed at the opening ceremony for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy, wearing white, like many of the others who performed during the ceremony, to symbolize the snow that makes the Winter Olympics possible.

** Nelson Mandela makes his " I Am Prepared to Die " speech at the opening of the Rivonia Trial, a classic of the anti-apartheid movement.

Several major movies have featured bungee jumps, most famously the opening sequence of the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye in which Bond makes a jump over the edge of a dam in Russia ( in reality the dam is in Switzerland: Verzasca Dam, and the jump was genuine, not an animated special effect ).

This transient oversupply of air causes a lean mixture, which makes the engine misfire ( or " stumble ")— an effect opposite what was demanded by opening the throttle.

In James Robert Baker's novel, Boy Wonder, fictional movie producer Shark Trager makes it his goal to surpass Touch of Evils three minute opening tracking shot when filming a movie of his own.

In the opening scene, she makes an emotional appeal to her sister Ismene saying that they must protect their brother out of sisterly love, even if he did betray their state.

The random setup ( if not the same as the classic starting position ) makes the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable, compelling players to rely instead on their talent and creativity.

Once a tunnel is found, the woodpecker chisels out wood until it makes an opening into the tunnel.

The situation is only seemingly different in the case of such late classical works as Beethoven's Fourth and Fifth Piano Concertos, where the soloist is heard at the outset: as the later unfolding of those movements makes clear, the opening piano solo or early piano flourishes actually precede the start of the exposition proper.

* Psônen " Snow-Bringer "-an eagle-spirit that makes snow by opening his wings

Lady Bunny makes a cameo during the opening credits, outside of Mary's house party.

A headline format typically features an opening act known as a host or master of ceremonies ( MC ) who usually warms up the crowd, makes announcements, and introduces the other performers.

The opening verse of Bruce Springsteen's 2007 song " Last to Die ," from the album Magic, makes reference to a place called Truth or Consequences.

However, the defense makes an unorthodox opening lead, presenting declarer with a possible overtrick.

The moves a player makes in his mid-game will be dictated by the position he is left with after the opening.

In Freaked, an arrogant movie star who has been transformed into a " hideous mutant freak " makes use of his deformity by performing the opening soliloquy, condensed by a local professor in subtitles for the " culturally illiterate " to the more succinct " I'm ugly.

The final episode also included the original tag line, with some revision, printed on the screen with the words " There is a destiny that makes us FAMILY " ( replacing the word ' brothers '), as well as quick clips of each of the show's title cards and announcers over the six decades it was on television, leading to the show's former long-time opening announcement: " And now, The Guiding Light ".

From its opening, Nahum shows God to be slow to anger but that He will by no means clear the guilty, but will bring his vengeance and wrath to pass.

One of the more frequent of these shapes was the opening slit ; a vertical central split appears in the totally black frame, and widens till the whole frame is clear, revealing the scene that is about to start.

In these instances a signal such as dropping a bell or a ball, the snapping of fingers, or opening and closing both hands repeatedly or making three clear and rhythmic grunts as a pre-defined signal to stop or otherwise slow down the scene.

Johann Kremer, an SS doctor who oversaw the gassings, testified that: " Shouting and screaming of the victims could be heard through the opening and it was clear that they fought for their lives.

* The 1992 satire film Bob Roberts includes several scenes that are influenced by the movie, including a clear parody of the opening scene, complete with misspelled words (" Dange ", for example ).

The centrality of sacrifices in Ancient Israel is clear, with much of the Bible, particularly the opening chapters of the book Leviticus, detailing the exact method of bringing sacrifices.

In Part 2, when dozens of reporters are heading for a scoop, Pine lays down the law to clear the area, opening fire on Ulala who refuses to leave.

Containing four tracks, each around the eight minute mark, Envane is a coherent EP that showcases a strong hip hop influence, featuring a clear vocal sample ( taken from " No Awareness " on Dr. Octagonecologyst ) and scratching on its opening track, " Goz Quarter ".

In February 2006, Metro officials chose Randi Miller, a car dealership employee from Woodbridge, Virginia, to record new " doors opening ", " doors closing ", and " please stand clear of the doors, thank you " announcements after winning an open contest to replace the messages recorded by Sandy Carroll in 1996.

By the end of 1998, it became clear that Braathens had increased capacity with 20 percent, but only achieved a 5. 2 percent ridership increase after the opening of Gardermoen.

Varro on the other hand had clear the relevance of the function of starting a new life by opening the way to the semen and therefore started his enumeration of the gods with Janus, following the pattern of the Carmen Saliare.

The clear lens opening was only 20 mm.

In the opening of Don Quixote, Cervantes has the protagonist especially admiring Bernardo because he crushed Roland with his arms alone, although the context is clear that Don Quixote is placing too much credence in the fantastic stories of romance.

In a match where the lead swung back and forth several times, the two titans tested each other in a wide variety of opening formations, and every game ( except the 24th ) was full-blooded and played hard to a clear finish.

Kurt Cobain of Nirvana on " Smells Like Teen Spirit " dropped his voice an octave and changed the opening line to " Load up on drugs, kill your friends "; the band also made it very clear that they were not playing their instruments.

The 26th Infantry's initial attack on 13 October provided important insight on the nature of the fighting ; American infantry had been ambushed by German defenders using sewers and cellars, forcing the advancing American infantry to clear each opening before continuing down streets, while Sherman tanks found it impossible to maneuver to suppress enemy fire.

The opening of the meetings was delayed, and it took police much of the afternoon and evening to clear the streets.

While this ' slash and burn ' technique may describe the method for opening new land, commonly the farmers in question have in existence at the same time smaller fields, sometimes merely gardens, near the homestead there they practice intensive ' non-shifting " techniques until shortage of fields where they can employ " slash and burn " to clear land and ( by the burning ) provide fertilizer ( ash ).

He added later, " Now, let's be clear, if it was possible, for an Israel to exist, in which it truly accepted all of the people of that region, especially the original inhabitants that were kicked out and murdered in masse, if it could somehow, legitimately recognise all of the people of that region, as brothers and sisters, and make sure that laws existed in which every last person was treated equally, then I would shift my wrath towards Israel to an opening of seeing if this nation could conceivably act with any human decency.

Davies was pressured by his publisher to provide some clear idea of what exactly " Fifth Business " was, and so Davies affixed this opening quotation, which was taken at face value for many years.

Here Chaucer evokes enormous pathos for the ' hoor and oolde ' Januarie, soon to be cuckolded by a manipulative female figure, a clear reversal from the horrific and repulsive figure painted by the narrator in the opening presentation of the man.

It is usually stated that he became a commissioner of the Yan Yean water-supply either in 1858 or 1859, but as he responded for the commissioners at the dinner held on the opening day 31 December 1857, it is clear that he was given the position in that year or earlier.

The entire first volume of The Diamond Chariot is an allusion to Alexander Kuprin's Junior Captain Rybnikov, and the opening sentence of The Winter Queen is a clear reference to Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita.