Sentences with phrase «as guest of honour»

If your big event has the chance of getting rained out this summer, or if you invited Kevin Federline as your guest of honour how will you recover losses when he doesn't show?

This may help to explain why the official launch of TERI Europe in 2000 was not in a south London back street but in the imposing setting of Marlborough House off the Mall, the Commonwealth Secretariat's headquarters, with John Prescott, then deputy prime minister, as guest of honour.

Barack Obama was advised, only half - jokingly, to wear a gas mask when he appears as guest of honour at India's Republic Day parade on Monday.

QUITE what Madonna, a singer late of New York, now of London, was on about when she spouted a few ripe obscenities in her speech as guest of honour at the Turner Prize is anyone's guess.

The decision to choose Russia as guest of honour is an extension of their desire to explore artistic practice in the East.

Rent Collection Courtyard, 1974 — 1978 (original 1965), Test the Quantity of the Grains (Detail) In conjunction with China's appearance as Guest of Honour at the 2009 Frankfurt Book Fair, the Schirn will be showing, for the first time ever in the West, the spectacular Chinese sculptural group Rent Collection Courtyard (Chin.: Shouzuyuan).

You've arrive there as the guest of honour of Peter Molyneux and the 22cans team.

The gala event, known as «the Oscars of the travel industry» is taking place on 3 May at the Address Dubai Marina, with His Highness Prince Bandar Bin Saud Bin Khalid as Guest of Honour.

The biggest players of Arabian travel and tourism are gearing up for the most important evening of the year — the World Travel Awards 2010 Middle East Ceremony, which takes place on 3 May at the Address Dubai Marina, with His Highness Prince Bandar as Guest of Honour.

After France, Georgia will present itself to the fair's international public as Guest of Honour at the 2018 Frankfurter Buchmesse.

Since 1976, every year the Frankfurter Buchmesse has welcomed a country or region as its Guest of Honour.

From the point of view of the book industry, this helps to boost the trade in rights and licences, and it helps publishers to develop their international contacts — even after the year as Guest of Honour has ended.

Learn more about Germany as Guest of Honour

France's participation as Guest of Honour at the Frankfurter Buchmesse 2017 is under the auspices of the French President.

As part of its year as Guest of Honour, every country also organises an extensive international translation funding programme.

At today's press conference concerning France's participation as Guest of Honour at the Frankfurter Buchmesse details about the programme were revealed.

Minister Dario Franceschini said: «The Italian participation as Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2023 has a strong symbolic meaning: it affirms the worldwide appreciation of our creative industry and effectively shows its vitality, cultural strength and economic value.

Literary Slovenia As part of Slovenia's appearance as Guest of Honour at the Frankfurter Buchmesse 2022, the German public will be introduced to famous authors such as Boris Pahor, Drago Jančar and Slavoj Žižek, poets like Srečko Kosovel, Dane Zajc and Tomaž Šalamun as well as up - and - coming literary talent.

Frankfurt / Ljubljana, 20 February 2018 — The Frankfurter Buchmesse's Guest of Honour 2022 has been chosen: Today, the contract for Slovenia's appearance as Guest of Honour at the Frankfurter Buchmesse (19 - 23 October 2022) was signed by the Director of the Slovenian Book Agency, Renata Zamida, and Juergen Boos, Director of the Frankfurter Buchmesse, in the presence of the Slovenian Minister of Culture, Anton Peršak, and numerous authors and publishers.

J. Hoberman was busy for a couple of days as a guest of honour for the BAFICI publication of a Spanish - language anthology of his work, as well as presenter of the festival screening of Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures (1963), but one can only hope that the man was able to take an actual day off, ambling Buenos Aires's parilla and petrol - fumed avenidas at will.

Last Thursday a policy document from FASTS was formally launched at Parliament House in Canberra with the science minister Peter Cook as guest of honour.

The programme was attended by the Chairman of the Ghana Hajj Board Sheikh I.C Quaye, the Chief Imam Sheikh Dr. Osmanu Nuhu Sharubutu as the Guest of Honour, together with the ten regional chief Imams and other Imams from across the country.

The event, which had the former President of Ghana, John Agyekum Kufuor as Guest of Honour, brought together close to 250 guests, comprising CEOs and top executives of various organizations across the globe, to support a worthy cause of making children with complex spine deformities receive treatment.

Mr. Quansah was speaking as the guest of honour at the official opening of the 15th Biennial Delegates» conference of the Cape Coast Diocese of the Association of Methodist Church Choirs Ghana (GHAMECC) at Elmina over the weekend.

Souleymane was subsequently invited to Stamford Bridge in order to attend the second leg as a guest of honour but declined the offer, claiming that Chelsea are attempting to fob him off by treating him like a child.

Hugo Sánchez was presented as the guest of honour during the inauguration event, joining the Spanish Ambassador to Mexico Luis Fernández Pumariño on the stage.

The team here at Sumo Digital were invited to attend Sheffield Hallam University as guests of honour, for the grand opening of their brand new PlayStation education facility!

The fair has a strong international focus, intending to display works from those regions of the world whose artwork rarely reaches the galleries of France; areas such as Casablanca, Bangkok, Zürich, Moscow, Bucharest or Singapore are represented this year, with Singapore and Southeast Asia as guests of honour in 2015.

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The father runs out to welcome the son, «a most unusual and undignified procedure for an aged oriental» (Jeremias), freely forgives him, treats him as an honoured guest and restores him to a position of dignity and authority in his household.

14.33] a sign of forgiveness; the feast is a sign of rejoicing; the robe marks him as an honoured guest; the ring is a signet ring and a symbol of authority; the shoes mark him as a free man, not a slave.

I'm honoured and excited to share this recipe today as part of a guest posts series on Alexandra's blog.

She has been a great source of inspiration and encouragement for me in my first year of blogging and as my first ever guest post I am honoured to be here doing it here on Rainy Day Mum!

He said «John Dramani Mahama had benefitted from such a situation in the Presidential petition of 2013 and cynically thought his good friend, the President of Kenya Uhuru Kenyatta, whom he had invited as the special guest of honour during Ghana's independent Celebrations in 2016, would have the benefit of the docility of the Kenyan Supreme Court just as he was the beneficiary of Ghana's razor thin edge Supreme Court decision in 2013.

The President, Nana Akufo - Addo speaking as the special guest of honour at the 60th - anniversary celebrations of the Okuapeman School at Akropong Akuapem last Saturday, announced government's intention to «fund the cost of public Senior High Schools for all those who qualify for entry from the 2017/2018 academic year onwards».

President Mahama is in Des Moines, Iowa in the United States of America as the Special Guest of Honour at a ceremony to confer the 2017 World Food Prize Award on Dr. Akinwumi Adesina.

A statement issued by the Senior Special Assistant to the President, Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Saturday, said during the course of the visit, Buhari would join the Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki - moon, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al - Nahyan of Abu Dhabi and other participants as a special guest of honour at this year's edition of the World Future Energy Summit.

Lands and Natural Resources Minister John Peter Amewu and Minister for Local Government, Hajia Alima Mahama are expected to grace the occasion as special guests of honour.

Ghana's Second Lady Samira Bawumia was the special guest of honour as the Ghana Navy held its annual festival of nine lessons and carols on Tuesday.

In an address as the special guest of honour, the Second Lady, said that Christians have a responsibility to move Ghana forward by their actions but sadly they [Christians] have done less for God and country hence God disappointment in them.

As special guest of honour, the Second Lady graced the occasion in her usually charming self.

As the Special Guest of Honour at the Conference, President Jonathan said terrorists and criminal elements masquerade as Fulani herdsmen in order to inflict maximum damage on the peace, stability and security of the countrAs the Special Guest of Honour at the Conference, President Jonathan said terrorists and criminal elements masquerade as Fulani herdsmen in order to inflict maximum damage on the peace, stability and security of the countras Fulani herdsmen in order to inflict maximum damage on the peace, stability and security of the country.

«The barricade was obviously a deliberate attempt to assassinate the Chief of Army Staff and members of his entourage while on a legitimate official assignment as Special Guest of Honour at the passing out parade which has earlier been widely publicized.

In his speech, Mr Kwabena Okyere Kusi, the Municipal Chief Executive of the New Juaben Municipal Assembly, who was the special guest of honour, commended the efforts being made by Young Cadres in using sports as a tool to engender unity and camaraderie.

Speaking as the Special Guest of Honour at the 60th Anniversary celebration of Okuapeman School Saturday, February 11, 2017, he said the government had a well thought - out plan that involved the building of new public and cluster SHSs to give more meaning to free public SHS education.

Protest the Pope is a campaign that believes that, as a head of state, the Pope is an unsuitable guest of the UK government and should not be accorded the honour and recognition of a state visit to our country.

President Muhammadu Buhari Sunday evening touched down at Abu Dhabi following a three - day official visit to join Secretary General of the United Nations, and other participants as a special guest of honour at this year's edition of the World Future Energy Summit.

Dr. Bawumia was invited as a Special Guest of Honour by?

Meanwhile Farage, who portrays himself as the champion of «decent, ordinary people,» was the guest of honour last night at a lavish victory party in London's Ritz hotel.

«The barricade was obviously a deliberate attempt to assassinate the chief of army staff and members of his entourage while on a legitimate official assignment as special guest of honour at the passing out parade which has earlier been widely publicized,» Sani Usman, spokesman of the army, had said in a statement.

This is as the event will witness the presence of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo as the Special Guest of Honour at a leadership symposium in honour of Ooni's birHonour at a leadership symposium in honour of Ooni's birhonour of Ooni's birthday.