While representing the United States in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy, Ruggiero was widely quoted for comments she made to the Sports Illustrated website regarding the Canadian team's behavior during the preliminary round of the women's hockey tournament:

Finland's foreign politics before this deal had been varied: independence from Imperial Russia with support of Imperial Germany in 1917 ; participation in the Russian Civil War ( without official declaration of war ) alongside the Triple Entente 1918 – 1920 ; a non-ratified alliance with Poland in 1922 ; association with the neutralist and democratic Scandinavian countries in the 1930s ended by the Winter War ( 1939 ); and finally in 1940, a rapprochement with Nazi Germany, the only power able to protect Finland against the expansionist Soviet Union, leading to the Continuation War in 1941.

Winter weather comes from the upper Great Plains or from the Gulf of Mexico, leading to drastic swings in temperature.

Czechoslovakia and its successor states are rated as being among the leading nations on the international scene, thanks to their triumphs in the Winter Olympic Games and the World Championships.

She co-starred in the 2003 film Johnny English and made her leading actress debut in the 2009 film Closed for Winter.

With the controversial bid for the 1972 Winter Olympics, environmental groups became more influential, leading Parks Canada to withdraw its support for the bid.

Even a winter torch relay featured a dragonboat when the torch was ferried over False Creek in Vancouver during the final leg of the longest Olympic torch relay ever, leading up to the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Games.

Old deep-rooted misperceptions of Finland as a threat and as a continuation of the ancient tsarist régime were enhanced among ordinary citizens by the Bolshevist leadership, which further contributed to the conditions leading to the Winter War.

The groups would tour the area in the period leading up to Christmas ( or the Winter Solstice ), engaging in tomfoolery ( horseplay ) at local landowners ' houses and requesting ' largesse ', i. e. funds to tide them over the slack period of the year.

Winter arrives around the beginning of December and is moderately long, cold and icy with high amounts of snowfall annually amounting to an average of 5. 11m ( 201. 2 inches ) commonly leading to the development of snow banks in the outer areas of the city.

On February 9, 2012, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman announced that Comerica Park will host many events leading up to the 2013 NHL Winter Classic.

It appears the project is on hold for the period leading up to the 2010 Winter Olympics.

16 contestants take part in events throughout January and February leading up to the crowning & fashion show at the Northern College auditorium during Kirkland Lake's Winter Carnival.

This prompted some leading academic ophthalmologists and vision community supporters which included Bernard Becker, David Cogan, Edward Maumenee, Michael Hogan, John McLean, Frank Newell, Jules Stein, and Frank Winter to campaign for a separate institute that solely focused on vision research.

Bourque also played for the NHL All-Stars in Rendez-vous ' 87 against the Soviet Union, and played for the Canadian team in the 1998 Winter Olympics, leading all defensemen in scoring.

Bouwmeester participated in Canada's summer camp in advance of the 2010 Winter Olympics, but his struggles in the weeks leading up the team being announced resulted in his being left off the roster.

High-ranking members of the armed forces also occupied leading roles in the group, with General Blakeney joined by the likes of General Ormonde Winter, Brigadier-General T. Erskine Tulloch, Admiral John Armstrong and Colonel Sir Charles Rosdew Burn, who combined a role on the Grand Council of the British Fascisti with that of Conservative Party MP for Torquay.

When the Winter War broke out, suspicions against Finland's " hazardous foreign politics " remained strong, most importantly among leading Social Democrats in Sweden.

The Winter Gardens complex is home to the Malvern Theatre, a leading provincial centre for dramatic arts, a cinema ( film theatre ), a concert venue / banqueting room, bars and cafeterias.

Head coach of the Red Wings, he is the only coach to gain entry to the Triple Gold Club as of June 2011, guiding his Red Wings to the Stanley Cup in 2008, as well as leading Team Canada to gold at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and the IIHF world hockey championship in 2004.

The HBO series 24 / 7: Flyers / Rangers leading up to the 2012 Winter Classic gave fans rare access to the Flyers locker room, and many of Laviolette's quotes became popular catch-phrases, such as " we need to start playing with some jam ", " it's about as casual as it gets " and " let's fucking giddy-up and go ".

Navarro was much improved in 2008, after working on his hitting and his strength in the Venezuelan Winter League with Tiburones de La Guaira, leading his team with a. 295 batting average and guiding his pitchers to the third-lowest ERA in the majors ( 3. 60 ) as of July 10.

The day itself is not visibly shorter than the several days leading up to and following it and although the actual Julian date of Winter solstice would have been on the December 15 or 14 at the time when Christianity was introduced to Scandinavia, December 13 could well have lodged in peoples mind as being the shortest day.

In 1960, Walt Disney ( then Head of Pageantry for the Winter Olympics ) offered Hunt the job of leading the musical productions for the VIII Olympic Winter Games, which he accepted.

According to a press conference held in Winter Park, Florida, on February 2, 1967, by Disney Vice President Donn Tatum, the Improvement District and Cities were created to serve " the needs of those residing there ", and the company needed its own government to " clarify the District's authority to services within the District's limits " and because of the public nature of the planned development.

Winter weather patterns in Flagstaff are cyclonic and frontal in nature, originating in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

Typical of the Allemannic tradition are the witches and forest-or well-spirits, who typically signify Winter or the forces of nature coming to drive Winter out.

The basic elements of the story can also be interpreted as a nature allegory: the Princess represents Nature, the Wicked Fairy is Winter, who puts the Court to sleep with pricks of frost until the Prince ( Spring ) cuts away the brambles with his sword ( a sunbeam ) to allow the sun to awaken sleeping Nature.

Traditional feast songs include " Zamtari " (" Winter "), which is about the transient nature of life and is sung to commemorate ancestors, and a great number of " Mravalzhamier " songs.

* " Power Play " in Paradox Magazine, issue 8 ( Winter 2005-2006 ), an exploration of the nature of power, set in Roman Jerusalem.

He was later to renounce these books upon achieving the honed and focused nature poetry of Winter Harvest ( 1933 ) and the four later collections that he called his canon.

Unlike those teams, which were often adversarial towards other costumed superheroes, the Winter Guard is much more heroic and representative in nature.

Due to the tropical and subtropical nature of the climate of Brazil, it has not traditionally competed in the Winter Olympics, although it made its first appearance in the 1992 Winter Olympics, and most recently participated in the 2010 Winter Olympics.

With respect to their ad-hoc nature and Objective-oriented strategy, Finnish ski troops employed during the Soviet-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940 could, in principle, be considered to be an equivalent to Kampfgruppen.

Knowing that she cheated on him with a fellow actor ( Max Winter ), Dawson questions Natasha's intentions, to which she becomes angry.

In other respects, Bachiler's reputation was such that in 1642, he was asked by Thomas Gorges, deputy governor of the Province of Maine, to act as arbitration " umpire " ( deciding judge ) in a Saco Court land dispute between George Cleeve and John Winter.

He often referred to God in his speeches, and during the Winter War he asked the Finns who were serving

Max Winter, the Minnesota Vikings founder, contacted Grant in 1961 and asked him to coach the new NFL expansion team.

In October 1994, Rollins College, a small private liberal arts college in Winter Park, Florida, United States made international headlines when the government of Japan, per the request of its Okinawa Prefecture, asked for the return of a statue that was taken as war loot by Clinton C. Nichols, a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy and Rollins graduate after the Battle of Okinawa in 1946.

In 1848, Cowdery traveled to meet with followers of Brigham Young and the Quorum of the Twelve encamped at Winter Quarters, Nebraska, and he asked to be reunited with the Church.

Barely one month later, he was asked to find a new location for a settlement ; on 11 September, he selected the site that would become Winter Quarters.

Boine was asked to perform at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, but refused because she perceived the invitation as an attempt to bring a token minority to the ceremonies.

In Pravda of 30 November 1939, the day of the outbreak of the Winter War, Stalin was asked for his opinion on the report of " the speech " allegedly made " by Stalin to the Politburo on 19 August ", in which he is said to have expressed the thought that the war should go on as long as possible, so that the belligerents are exhausted.

Kirk asked then U. S. Representative and later Senator Edward Gurney of Winter Park serve as chairman of the 1967 gubernatorial inauguration although Gurney had not been involved in the Kirk campaign.

American criticism of his moralism started to change in the 1970s following the Watergate scandal ; here is how Reloy Garcia describes his reassessment of the work when asked to update his original Study Guide to Winter: " The book I then so impetuously criticized as somewhat thin, now strikes me as a deeply penetrating study of the American condition.

Kebede's big break came when Tom Ford asked her for an exclusive contract for his Gucci Fall / Winter 2000 fashion show.

On 31 August, Justice Gerard Winter decided to adjourn until 30 September the hearing of the lawsuit of former FLP parliamentarians Lekh Ram Vayeshnoi and Gaffar Ahmed, after defence lawyer Akuila Naco asked for more time to prepare his case.

Hoffmann has been specifically chosen for several roles throughout his acting career to include his role of Lee in The Last Winter, and was asked by Valerie Red-Horse to play her leading man in the film Naturally Native.

In December 2009 she asked the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland for an injunction and was allowed to participate at a single 3000m race in Salt Lake City, so that she could qualify for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver should her appeal of the ban be successful.

S. K. Sen asked a number of Indo-Europeanists ( Y. E. Arbeitman, Eric P. Hamp, Manfred Mayrhofer, Jaan Puhvel, W. Winter ) to reconstruct the PIE " parent " of the text.