Sentences with phrase «state funeral»

A state funeral is a special ceremony held to honor and remember important government officials or leaders who have passed away. It is organized and funded by the government to show respect and tribute to the deceased individual. Full definition
The Evening Mass was the second state funeral for victims of the August 24 disaster which flattened three areas: Amatrice, Accumoli and Arquata del Tronto.
The New York State Funeral Directors Association plans to sue the state Health Department next week to block it from forcing 94 morticians to retake their national board exams in order to keep their licenses.
Cuomo got $ 35,000 from a political action committee run by the New York State Funeral Directors Association.
Former finance minister is third»em inent Canadian'to be accorded state funeral, which will take place Wednesday in Toronto
«We're providing pensions for people who have never had one and other benefits the independents couldn't do on their own,» says Beebe, who is also executive director of the New Jersey State Funeral Directors Association.
It may not have been an official state funeral, but this felt a lot like the establishment giving one of its champions the send - off she deserved.
California legislators are considering a bill that would allow state funeral homes to start dissolving bodies in a chemical bath by 2020.
The regime covered up the suicide, announced the cause of Udet's death in a crash during a test flight and staged a pompous State funeral.
The beloved Prime Minister's very big deal state funeral was held on this day in 1965 02 Go see Fences which won two SAG awards last night 03 Then read some more August Wilson and decide which upcoming adaptation you're most excited to see 04 Send out those invites to your Oscar party - time's a wastin».
In between attending state funerals, Douglas is quietly writing his memoirs while Kramer crisscrosses the country giving lectures, dressing up corporate shindigs and hawking his presidential cookbook.
Yesterday, Poland bid farewell to the president after over 100,000 people flocked the streets to pay their last respects to their leader and befitting a man of his stature, we were at the very least glad to see that the Polish government spared no expense in giving the president a grand state funeral, which included the use of aMaserati Quattroporte hearse to bring his remains to its final resting place.
The New York State Funeral Directors Association, for example, has a page on its website titled «NYSFDA is Opposed to Preneed Funeral Insurance,» it lists many reasons for its opposition, including the following:
In a near - full St. Patrick's Cathedral Monday morning, at what turned out to be the big - business version of a state funeral, JPMorgan Chase (JPM) CEO Jamie Dimon delivered a eulogy of his close friend and colleague, Jimmy Lee.
Seven days of national mourning have been declared with a state funeral scheduled for March 29.
Hundreds gathered to pay their respects to the former finance minister a day before his state funeral
Tuesday's state funeral was for victims in the neighbouring Lazio, which includes Amatrice and Accumoli.
When he died he was given a state funeral and buried alongside Isaac Newton and John Herschel.
The ceremony will be broadcast on TV and organisers say whilst it's not a state funeral, it will be very close.
Religion News Service: Monks» caskets suit heads back to court A group of Catholic monks who sued for the right to sell handmade caskets will head back to court this week, fending off an appeal from the state funeral industry after a federal judge last year struck down a state law that permitted only licensed funeral directors to sell coffins.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi announced in a statement that a state funeral would be held for Pfau.
Wenger must do it himself and he «ll get a State Funeral plus a big pay out, a season ticket for life and a honoury directorship.
I guess we should think about what kind of person does get a state funeral.
He asked for forgiveness for the murderer of the late MP, while expressing gratitude to the President and government for honouring the deceased with a state funeral.
The weekend it broke, I was the keynote speaker for Yeshiva graduation — and Bernie Madoff was the treasurer — and I felt like I was at a state funeral.
The Queen's attendance continues to create controversy, with many saying it elevates the occasion to a state funeral in all but name — an honour not given to other major British prime ministers like Clement Atlee.
The only other politician to receive this honour is Margaret Thatcher, whose body rested there before her state funeral last year.
Only Churchill, who saved Britain from Nazi rule, was granted a state funeral.
Her funeral is being changed into a state funeral in all but name, from the military flavour to the Queen's attendance.
The Queen took the unusual step of personally deciding to attend the funeral, giving the event an air of a state funeral in all but name.
I would have thought a state funeral would be very appropriate,» Tory MP Peter Bone said.
His funeral was the first Welsh national funeral, akin to a state funeral, as well as the first national funeral led by a humanist celebrant.
He received a state funeral in Jamaica on May 21, 1981, which combined elements of Ethiopian Orthodoxy and Rastafari tradition.
One columnist, suggesting that Harper was motivated by a desire to avoid the mistakes of the Windsors after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, wrote that Harper «pre-empted condemnation of his aloofness... by ordering a state funeral in order to satisfy the teddy - bear grief of a nation».
It was the first time she had attended the funeral of a British prime minister since Winston Churchill's state funeral.
In the midst of an unprecedented wave of mourning, the prime minster accorded Layton a state funeral.
So she wades in to inform us all that no decision has been taken as to whether to grant Lady Thatcher a State Funeral (Guardian article).
She claimed she never wanted a state funeral, but she planned to give herself the same ceremonial one as the Queen Mother», he continued.
Butler's secret service agent Mike Banning — torn between the dangerous job he loves and the unborn baby he wants to spend more time with — must travel to London with BFF / President Benjamin Asher (granite jawed Aaron Eckhart) for a state funeral.
London Has Fallen finds Banning and his best bro, President Benjamin Asher (Aaron Eckhart), flying out to the British capital for a state funeral, soon revealed to be a set - up for a very poorly explained terrorist invasion.
This time around, he's saving the President from terrorists who lay siege to a state funeral in London.
It embodies all of the ways in which she tells us who this queen is, and why she is so stubborn about holding the line against a state funeral for Princess Diana.
The answer is two young children and no certain role beyond her responsibility as the widow in black at the state funeral.
Set a week after Dallas, once the state funeral had concluded and Jackie was secluded in Hyannis Port, Mrs. Kennedy speaks frankly, albeit occasionally off the record, about her time as first lady.
When Stalin dies in the middle of the night, his middling underlings — including Nikita Khrushchev (Buscemi) Georgy Malenkov (Tambor), and Vyacheslav Molotov (Palin)-- are left with organizing his state funeral and scurrying to consolidate power.
The film also depicts her televised tour of the White House in 1961, her talks with a priest (John Hurt, «Hercules») who offers her some unpriest - like comments, and her participation in planning the state funeral, modeled on the funeral of Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
The premise sees Asher and his fellow world leaders assembling for the state funeral of the British Prime Minister.
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