I'm the showpiece in Iraq and they finally understood that.
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"This is definitely a trophy property, showpiece, showstopper," Chan said.
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But their clash will set the tone for the global showpiece.
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But Manchester by the Sea is Lee's story, and Affleck's showpiece.
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The showpiece of the Botramkot is the traditional Ghent 'botram mee uufflakke'.
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In the showpiece aria that follows, "Cruda sorte," she bemoans her fate.
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The showpiece of the museum, called the Dream Machine, needs little explanation.
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As it is, I find it too chunky, overwhelming even my distinctly average wrist, to be anything but an ostentatious showpiece — and the trouble for the Summit is that there are many better, analog showpiece watches out there already.
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He has also lost five Australian Open finals and a French Open showpiece.
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At least four international galleries are investing in showpiece spaces in the capital.
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The rhubarb soufflé is another good, if more routine, showpiece for egg whites.
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There are two regular showpiece exhibitions: one against a veteran's side, on Dec.
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Monday's Iowa caucuses, expected to be a showpiece for Democrats, turned into a debacle.
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Here, an Air France Concorde joins its Soviet rival, the TU144, as a showpiece.
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Even for the showpiece track sprints that week, crowds sometimes numbered in the hundreds.
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Now, "Good Day, Good Night" will be the showpiece of another yearlong Brown rollout.
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But the scaled-down White House is the showpiece, complete with an Oval Office.
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The idea is for the clock to be the showpiece for a bigger connected platform.
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Nereo, 17, became the oldest horse to win the showpiece event in south-west England.
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That is because championships are won not in the showpiece games, but in the humdrum.
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Soccer's showpiece event will grow to 48 teams from 32 starting with the 2026 tournament.
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Be assured that your showpiece with all of its components will be stunning to behold.
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It runs other big tournaments worldwide too, but the World Cup is its main showpiece.
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Ms. Rae brought plush radiance to the confessional aria and brilliant, agile singing to the showpiece.
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The resort, a showpiece project of the North's leader, Kim Jong-un, was opened in 2013.
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But sport's biggest showpiece, the Olympics, will still go ahead as planned, according to Tokyo organisers.
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And in a showpiece like the "Paganini Variations," which the pianist Garrick Ohlsson performs on Oct.
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There have been great goals, showpiece performances and unforgettable moments, eternalised in the blink of an eye.
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Kate Middleton is just days away from unveiling her showpiece creation for the annual Chelsea Flower Show!
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The rest of the field were also informed, leading to a chaotic conclusion to the showpiece event.
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China's ruling Communist Party kicked off its annual political showpiece over the weekend — the National People's Congress.
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Glossy black tiles and dark purple cabinetry compliment the rapper's showpiece: a built-in vertical herb garden.
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While that was a classic, the women's showpiece fell flat as Williams coughed up 25 unforced errors.
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Each chef, of course, has another restaurant that works as a showpiece for his own expressive temperament.
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The United States women's gymnastics team, the showpiece of the American delegation, is also in the village.
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Vivienne was still the showpiece, still wearing princess dresses and, as Mr. Harr said, still his boss.
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Defeat for Serbia also deprived the showpiece of a potential Nadal v Djokovic clash in Sunday's final.
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" Not to be outdone, Israel, in its showpiece video, quoted a prior Authority: "Let there be light.
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Now he is building what he says will be a showpiece garage at the Atlanta Motorsports Park.
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The enclave is exclusive, full of showpiece brick homes, many decorated with flying flags of distant republics.
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Some experts wonder whether a Dubai hyperloop would simply become a showpiece similar to Shanghai's magnetic-levitation train.
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This has also led to increased funds allocated to England's showpiece domestic cup competition, the Emirates FA Cup.
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Ferocious temperatures meant tournament organizers made a late call to play the showpiece final with the roof closed.
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At the very least, it promises to be an animation showpiece, thanks to its unique crew and production.
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But for other airlines, first class remains a showpiece for attracting elite passengers and for broader brand marketing.
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Together, they try to map out where club soccer's showpiece tournament stands, and where it might be going.
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The Albatros is the showpiece among three courses, flanked by the Aigle and the nine-hole Oiselet layout.
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In the Shuafat camp on Thursday, residents laughed at the idea of making their neighborhood a Palestinian showpiece.
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"From the moment I was born, I was a showpiece," she said in a telephone interview from Peshawar.
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Both are the sorts of showpiece occasions that warrant the bombast of the Champions League's lofty theme music.
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The school has become a showpiece, and many educators, architects and builders have come to tour the building.
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All of which is to say, it's hard not to feel like Raskit is a showpiece for Diz.
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Earlier in the week, Prince William and Princess Kate made their first visit to the royal (and sporting!) showpiece.
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For its investment in Naraha, Tokyo got a showpiece to justify the trillions of yen it's pouring into Fukushima.
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Coric, world-ranked 19th, will face one of his toughest tests of the season against Djokovic in Sunday's showpiece.
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Let's just say she knows how to make the toughest-to-decorate spot in your apartment a total showpiece.
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Washington's subway, which extends into the Virginia and Maryland suburbs, was considered a showpiece when it opened in 1976.
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The Spaniard will be aiming for a fifth Madrid title when he meets Austrian Dominic Thiem in Sunday's showpiece.
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This marks only the first wave of ticket sales for the summer showpiece, which begins on July 24, 2020.
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"They said, 'We'll start a new line of business and this will be the showcase, the showpiece,'" he said.
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Chopsticks, amulets, bracelets, pendants, even a showpiece, an intricately carved dragon boat that previously cost $225,000 – everything must go.
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The Roland Garros showpiece begins on May 27, and Svitolina insisted that she would not get ahead of herself.
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Their "Fixer Upper" crew was able to preserve the home&aposs original charm and truly make it into a showpiece.
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With the eyes of the world on the soccer showpiece, fans are searching Google for the top World Cup stars.
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With 500 days to go until the start of the summer showpiece, organizers were confident that preparations are on schedule.
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Organizing committee CEO Mark Peters would not rule out more delays through the quadrennial showpiece which continues to April 15.
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The version by Jonas Dominique, played to the hilt here, refashions four of the dances into a shameless, brilliant showpiece.
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A graceful showpiece by the high-Baroque French viol master Marin Marais is bookended by two works by Mr. Muhly.
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Call it the Uncut Gems effect, but this year, some of the jewelry at the Oscars were the central showpiece.
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And Pierre becomes the helpless pawn and showpiece for a couple who have been searching for him for 17 years.
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We encounter a "shamelessly phallic" television tower in Prague and a showpiece of "Stalinoid angry-yet-maternal womanhood" in Warsaw.
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I blame heavy March snow for splitting the trunk of my miniature weeping maple, the showpiece of my front yard.
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Before stepping into the showpiece, viewers get to see Oiwa through his paintings, which take on different degrees of fantasy.
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The first season of One-Punch Man aired in 229, and it's a showpiece of how good Japanese animation could be.
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The royal mom has teamed up with two designers to create a showpiece for the annual Chelsea Flower Show in May.
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North Korean state media often touts showpiece construction projects, such as the new terminal at Pyongyang's airport or model housing sites.
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The rain stayed away for the MotoGP showpiece but an earlier violent storm forced a premature end to the Moto3 race.
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This showpiece of German Baroque was destroyed, along with much of the city, in a British bombing raid in February 1945.
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The East African state has enjoyed a decade of strong growth, giving rise to profitable industries, new infrastructure, and showpiece summits.
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Despite the spiralling impact of coronavirus, sport's biggest showpiece, the Olympics, will still go ahead as planned, according to Tokyo organisers.
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And in 2015, with "Dich, teure Halle" as her showpiece, honors came in rapid succession, including the top prize at Operalia.
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The women's team were fourth at last July's Eurobasket tournament, however, in Britain's best ever performance in the continent's showpiece event.
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It is billed as a showpiece of culture, business and technology with pavilions from 192 countries plus concerts and other events.
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Even Obama's showpiece CO2 program, the Clean Power Plan, did not rely on SCC in order to pass cost-benefit analysis.
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I have a kick-ass showpiece in my basement with their logo, my medal, eating pass, and pictures to document the experience.
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But Robey-Coleman felt the Rams could get to Brady "all over the place" when the teams battle in the NFL's showpiece.
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When you're not watching the TV, you have the option to set it to gallery mode to display art as a showpiece.
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Test cricket lacks a showpiece global event to draw in casual fans; the latest World Twenty20 began in India on March 8th.
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Mr. Kim has sought to legitimize his leadership by sprucing up Pyongyang, the showpiece capital that is home to the country's elite.
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They have reached the FA Cup final, a showpiece of the English season, where they will play Crystal Palace on May 21.
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Filmed and edited by Jisuk Hwang, it is a VX showpiece that, at times, is reminiscent of Colin Read's Spirit Quest (2016).
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It is, after all, a showpiece occasion for Concacaf, the body that governs soccer in North and Central America and the Caribbean.
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It is a ceremony ordinarily reserved for the showpiece games: Champions League quarterfinals, the visit of Manchester United, that sort of thing.
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Another florid Farinelli showpiece, "Son qual nave che agitate," composed by the castrato's brother, Riccardo Broschi, will close the program at Zankel.
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The pulsing two-part showpiece heralded a new dimension to our most private superstar, who had created her most personal album yet.
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The six-minute showpiece may begin a bit slow, but only because Styles packs those six minutes with a kaleidoscopic emotional experience.
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Long considered an afterthought — a cold, cluttered point of egress — the garage has emerged as something worthy of turning into a showpiece.
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Like its predecessors, Second Son was a technical showpiece that raised the bar for visual quality on Sony's then four-month-old console.
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And there you have it: the PlayStation VR's showpiece is the acidic road story starring a metallic bug on the path of darkness.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Germany's Alex Zverev says he will not take part in a revamped Davis Cup finals showpiece event in Spain next November.
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The N.F.L. draft, the league's glitziest showpiece after the Super Bowl, has long produced cringe-worthy drama when highly regarded players arepassed over.
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Only on a tour can visitors enter Gropius's faithfully reconstructed office, which was a showpiece for the first official Bauhaus exhibition in 1923.
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Here is an unabashed showpiece in the grand manner, replete with thundering double octaves, frame-rattling two-hand chords, and keyboard-sweeping glissandos.
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Mr. Bonetti urgently dialed Mr. Kozerski with news of his find, and the pair abandoned their idea of building a showpiece from scratch.
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In 2010, South Africa hosted in part to show that an African country, despite doubts and stereotypes, could superbly stage a global showpiece.
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In Ashgabat, he went on a building spree, transforming the sleepy capital into a glitzy showpiece that belies the country's dire economic situation.
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One place is still available for the showpiece with Britain's Johanna Konta currently holding eighth place in the WTA Race to Singapore standings.
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Once considered a showpiece for Brazil's steel industry, the mill saw production costs soar amid high inflation, currency volatility and a deep recession.
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As an orchestral showpiece, the work was an apt foil to Richard Strauss's "Ein Heldenleben" ("A Hero's Life"), and both were resplendently performed.
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Her "Vilja Song," the character's nostalgic showpiece, was a tender highlight, but more frenetic moments, and more orchestral cover, found her tone fading.
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As just a showpiece for how much horsepower you can pack in a laptop, the GT75 surpasses everything else on the market right now.
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There are five Lucky Onion hotels and restaurants, but the showpiece is the chic No. 131, which opened in late 503 on Imperial Square.
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The idea was to build a few showpiece games internally to kick off the new platform, pulling inspiration from a certain Kyoto game maker.
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But its record for foreign investors is poor: it seized South Korean assets at their showpiece joint industrial park in 2016 when relations deteriorated.
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The gold piano featured in the Queen's address was intended as a showpiece for the State Rooms at Buckingham Palace, according to The Mirror.
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The Lefkandi textile, found inside a bronze amphora, is the showpiece of a remarkable but little-known burial site on the island of Euboea.
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Puccini's orchestration is skilled, suited to supporting the voices, but "La Bohème" is no orchestral showpiece, as Mr. Rizzi seemed determined to make it.
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He has championed the need for France to become more competitive and made labor reform one of his showpiece policies on the campaign trail.
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So, in his next outing in the League Cup final, Mourinho used the showpiece game to assert his side's dominance over a struggling rival.
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The showpiece, though, is a mural of Green's favorite Royals and Chiefs, a crowd including Joe Montana, Tony Gonzalez and, as of Monday, Mahomes.
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Christopher Nolan's 2017 WWII epic "Dunkirk" was an ensemble showpiece of British twinkiness; "Love, Simon," starring Nick Robinson, 23, is the American suburban version.
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It was no surprise that for another encore he sang Donizetti's tenor showpiece "Ah, mes amis," tossing off the string of high C's effortlessly.
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After a quick tour of the ornate Grand Palace, the estate's showpiece, we headed to the sprawling gardens, known for their over 100 fountains.
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The Temple of Heaven is easily the most famous, but the Temple of the Sun reveals more because it is less of a showpiece.
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Of course, the showpiece was the ocean view balcony (not to be confused with oceanfront balconies, which are positioned even closer to the beach).
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But even at showpiece state hotels, surly staff sneer, as if wondering why Algeria bothered with liberation only to end up serving foreigners once again.
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The impeachment process has dragged on for months, predating the Olympic torch lighting ceremony -- a glitzy showpiece that, despite orchestrating, Rousseff was barred from attending.
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But Brazilian officials later put on a united front to assure the world that Rio was up to the task of hosting sport's greatest showpiece.
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Tokyo 2020 organizers have long maintained next year's summer showpiece will be the most innovative ever and more robots are expected to be announced later.
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Nadal advanced to the showpiece contest on a walkover when his semi-final opponent, Frenchman Gael Monfils, withdrew with an ankle injury before their meeting.
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Construction at the venue is due to be completed by the end of October 2019 - in time for test events ahead of the summer showpiece.
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Since the event was inaugurated in 1839, there have been 80 equine fatalities attributed to the showpiece steeplechase – the main race of the Grand National.
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FIFA, certainly, believes its showpiece tournament has done just that, in a way that the facade created by the Soviet authorities in 1980 could not.
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Although the North's showpiece capital, Pyongyang, appears better off under Mr. Kim, some humanitarian aid workers say the situation in rural areas has grown dire.
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After all that, Mr. Polenzani summoned melting emotion in his second-act showpiece, "Una furtiva lagrima," fondling and polishing the tone like a fine jewel.
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But what makes this beautifully illustrated volume more than just a gift-worthy showpiece is that many of the recipes should inspire a home cook.
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They are looking to collect as much as 45 tonnes of plastic to make the approximately 100 podiums needed for next summer's showpiece, they said.
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A great showpiece for SpongeBob's cast is "Band Geeks," a season two episode that is deservedly celebrated because it shows every character at their funniest.
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Today the company is releasing its long-in-development Aim Controller, a gun accessory for PlayStation VR, which launches alongside showpiece sci-fi VR shooter Farpoint.
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Infantino, elected present of world soccer's governing body last month, reiterated his wish to increase the number of teams at the game's four-yearly showpiece event.
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Samsung, meanwhile, thinks the future is modular — its showpiece this year was called The Wall, a 146-inch screen assembled out of little MicroLED building blocks.
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Her sister-in-law Kate teamed up with two designers, Andrée Davies and Adam White, to create a showpiece garden for the annual display in May.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Stamps celebrating next year's Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games went on sale on Tuesday, 13 days before the start of the summer showpiece.
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Kate Middleton teamed up with two designers, Andrée Davies, 55, and Adam White, 45, to create a showpiece for the annual Chelsea Flower Show in May.
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Barring a token appearance for Jamaica in the relays at Glasgow, athletics' most bankable drawcard Usain Bolt steered clear of the showpiece during his brilliant career.
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"Huguenots" is stocked with showpiece arias for the leads, but it becomes increasingly evident that individuals are helpless against the larger social energies that ensnare them.
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For now, though, Baselworld remains the industry's showpiece, and the moment in the year for some of the world's largest watch brands to introduce new collections.
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Yet demand for tickets to this year's showpiece match was 33% higher than in 2017 when Williams did not play in the final, according to StubHub.
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In the Snohetta-designed architectural showpiece she asked about an empty niche and learned it was a memorial space where the ancient scrolls would have gone.
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As Atlético exulted, as Anfield tried to catch its breath, it was not hard to see why UEFA would be reluctant to cancel its showpiece competition.
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Football Champions Tour has been arranging showpiece games for 10 years and, last year, together with the marketing agency Pitch International, launched Star Sixes in London.
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The state and its advisers, however, will face charges of underpricing the country's showpiece privatisation by leaving around 600 million euros of value on the table.
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AK Vice President in charge of competitions Paul Mutwii confirmed that the AIU had declined a request to enter Kibet and Simiyu in the global showpiece.
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The showpiece event is a belt-wrestling tournament which once offered the main prize of a sheep but now promises the winner a brand new car.
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But Ms. Devieilhe's impetuous and sparkling rendition of that showpiece was only the encore — an afterthought, really — for an evening of delicate, nuanced French art songs.
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Or they might have been about whether the first night of Trump's convention was as impressive a showpiece as Trump himself had promised it would be.
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Whatever the outcome of the French investigation, the news now hangs over preparations for Tokyo 2020 just 19873 months out from the start of the summer showpiece.
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That tournament, however, preceded more than a decade in the doldrums when they never again reached football's global showpiece or even threatened to capture an African title.
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Epstein said the platform would allow UEFA to show stories from the sidelines of its showpiece Champions League competition, provided they did not clash with rights holders.
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As a showpiece, as a glamorous bit of brand flair, or a thing to show off to your friends, the Oppo Find X is an instant winner.
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In Port Moresby, China had just added the finishing touches to a showpiece six-lane boulevard running between a main road in Port Moresby and parliament house.
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The German visited the offices of Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic organizers on Wednesday, lavishing praise on the hosts for their readiness to host the summer showpiece.
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The third album from Radiohead is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all time: a showpiece of melodic brushstrokes, expansive rock music and primal anguish.
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The first event, from Shine, a women's wrestling promotion, airs Friday, November 4, with the first shows from Evolve, WWN's showpiece promotion, coming November 12 and 13.
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Salmon has long been associated with festive, decadent feasting and is often wheeled out for a showpiece at soirees from Christmas right through to the New Year.
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In Alan Ayckbourn's latest play, the showpiece of Brits Off Broadway, a manor house becomes a girls' school and then an arts center and then a hotel.
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Liverpool beat Spurs 2-0 on the night in a relatively boring match, but the tournament showpiece was still one of DAZN's most successful of the year.
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Not just because it can turn one particular story into a showpiece, but because it achieves a high level of consistency and polish across its entire report.
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AK Vice President in charge of competitions Paul Mutwii said Wambui and Kageha had declined the mandatory test and withdrew from the global showpiece event in Doha.
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This fish-within-a-fish, painstakingly detailed down to the last fin, is a premodern showpiece from a chef, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, known for his streamlined modernism.
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There's precedent for devoting specialized attention to the problems of everyday living among architects and industrial designers, who may toggle between showpiece commissions and small, affordable houses.
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Bolstering jobs creation is a key cog of the Indian government's showpiece "Make in India" initiative that aims to encourage foreign manufacturers to set up shop in India.
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Critics of the government have long claimed these luxuries are reserved only for the most trusted North Koreans, who are privileged enough to live in the showpiece capital.
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It was perhaps the first game of the series that felt like it was driven by narrative, rather than a narrative wrapper on a technical and mechanical showpiece.
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Athletics, the showpiece sport of the Olympic Games, experienced a traumatic year in 2015 with life bans for officials following allegations of doping, cover-ups, bribery and corruption.
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The technique often damages the gold-leaf illumination around the illustration, which is hardly the type of treatment one would expect from a manuscript meant as a showpiece.
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Rapinoe said FIFA's decision to allow the men's Copa America final and Gold Cup showpiece to take place on the same day as the women's final was "unbelievable".
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Messi's international career has been less successful, with no major titles for his country in spite of reaching four finals including the World Cup 2014 showpiece in Brazil.
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The resulting mural—3,200 square feet of arresting visual narrative that maps out, as its title declares, "The Epic of American Civilization"—is more than a grand showpiece.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) warned Tokyo 2020 organizers on Friday that more accessible hotels and transport options must be found ahead of the showpiece event.
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In separate interviews, they expressed similar ideas about interpreting the Brahms concerto, both likening it to a kind of chamber music rather than a showpiece for a soloist.
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Longquan has become a favorite showpiece for the ruling Communist Party, which officially promotes atheism but has led a push in recent years to revive ancient cultural traditions.
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While Federer is trying to avoid only his second group stage exit in 17 appearances at the year-ending showpiece, the stakes will be even higher for Djokovic.
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The result means Williams has now had three failed attempts in finals to win that 24th major — she also contested last year's Wimbledon and U.S. Open showpiece matches.
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The DP World Tour Championship, Dubai, tees off on Thursday, as the conclusion of the Race to Dubai ends the European Tour season with its annual showpiece event.
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The onboard ranger explained that the onetime showpiece of Glacier Bay has receded out of sight, a retreat of more than 30 miles since Muir first saw it.
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The spacious living room, anchored by a gas fireplace, and the nearby dining area look out onto a large landscaped atrium, which is the showpiece of the home.
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Ideally, he said, he would like to hold qualifying events across Germany, turning the Berlin showpiece — at the height of the Bundesliga's winter break — into a national finals.
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At a summit meeting in Sibiu, Romania, in March — the showpiece event of Romania's presidency of the European Union — Prime Minister Mark Rutte of the Netherlands was blunt.
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Kim Jong Un's younger sister will attend the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in South Korea Friday — a showpiece event also being attended by Vice President Mike Pence.
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Sous-vide cod with black bean sauce was flabby and, like the scallops in a long canoe-shaped dish with peppers and onions, not a showpiece of sparkling freshness.
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It never rises above the level of one of your better Larry Bond books, but its heart is what makes World in Conflict more than a dated technology showpiece.
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Djokovic, however, has got more business to attend to as he prepares to face 37-year-old eight-times Wimbledon champion and number two seed Federer in Sunday's showpiece.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A superb display helped Slovenia storm into their first major basketball final, as they beat champions Spain 92-72 to book their place in Sunday's Eurobasket showpiece.
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The fact that he only qualified for the eight-man showpiece event for the world's top-ranked players aged 21 and under last week, underlines his slow-burning progress.
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The show opened with a sensational performance of the slippery, slangy "Madrid Is My Mama," a Latin jazz showpiece from "Women on the Verge," whose lyrics dripped with innuendo.
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Berrettini, the first Italian to play in the season-ending showpiece since 1978, was given a harsh lesson by 16-time Grand Slam champion Djokovic at the O2 Arena.
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"I wanted to use as many diamonds as possible," Tarang Arora, the creative director of Amrapali Jewels, said about the showpiece he had in mind for Jewelry Arabia 2016.
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Tall treelike pillars define the space, and the showpiece, coming in a few weeks, will be a giant silvery apple with an arrow through it parked on the roof.
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The concept is a showpiece and an integral part of the Chinese-backed California-based startup's new strategy to become a technology and design incubator that supplies other automakers.
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Austin McCormick's choreography for the showpiece Bacchanale looked cheesy, with scantily clad, tattooed men (and, eventually, some women) gyrating before throngs of Philistines sipping wine in garish red clothes.
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NARA, Japan — We'd just emerged from a long and rather liquid dinner on a barge along the Taedong River, in the heart of North Korea's showpiece capital of Pyongyang.
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In Mr. Watanabe she has found a talented partner to take charge of the kitchen, but I'm glad they didn't try to make Kissa Tanto into a chef's showpiece.
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A video of Mr. Frost tossing off "Let's Be Happy," a klezmer tune transformed into a giddily exuberant showpiece, has been seen more than a million times on YouTube.
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"In the city, oftentimes clients will want to invest in an antique carpet from an auction or one of the great rug vendors as a showpiece," Mr. Carrier said.
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Seventh seed Martic dispatched Frenchwoman Kristina Mladenovic 133-0 6-3 in 67 minutes to reach her first Premier showpiece, sealing victory with her third ace of the match.
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He poignantly underplayed Nabucco's descent into madness — no flailing or wild eyes — and his heartfelt prayer, "Dio di Giuda," felt less a showpiece than a moment of sober intimacy.
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The lawn, which serves as the roof for the glass-walled Lincoln Ristorante, has become an architectural showpiece and neighborhood attraction since it opened to the public in 2010.
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Cardiff, the spiritual home of Welsh rugby, is used to staging large sporting events, but the security operation in place for Saturday's showpiece is the largest ever in Wales.
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Canada's hopes of reaching the Budapest showpiece have been dealt a blow with world number six Bianca Andreescu ruled out of the singles for the clash with Switzerland in Biel.
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Brazil is suffering its worst recession since the 1930s with Games organizers struggling for cash and racing to finish venues and infrastructure projects days before the global showpiece event starts.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada played in one World Cup, in Mexico in 213, failed to win a game, did not score a goal and never returned to soccer's global showpiece tournament.
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It's now known for its gentle pace of life, but back in the 18th century, the city was British India's most important trading post and the showpiece of colonial power.
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All of this presents significant conservation challenges, and Mr. Hubacek did not take lightly the decision to clean the work, which is considered the showpiece of the Düsseldorf museum's collection.
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The soccer showpiece will return to the U.S. for the first time since 22010 after gaining 21.07 votes, while Morocco got 22 at the FIFA Congress in Moscow on Wednesday.
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The soccer showpiece will return to the U.S. for the first time since 1994 after gaining 134 votes, while Morocco got 65 at the FIFA Congress in Moscow on Wednesday.
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But some people in Pyongyang still remember his role in the tall apartment buildings, water parks and other showpiece projects he once zealously promoted to glorify his nephew's nascent leadership.
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"When I came here, the Japanese players were reactive, waiting for leadership and direction," he told a recent news conference to mark the one-year countdown to the global showpiece.
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Infosys, once the bellwether of India's showpiece $154 billion IT industry, last year witnessed a public row between founding executives and then-CEO Vishal Sikka over alleged corporate governance lapses.
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Your Dyson will do the real work, of course, but the other wives will go crazy when they see this $70,000 showpiece casually propped up against your marble Chesney's fireplace.
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But Platini said he picked Qatar to give the Arab world a chance to host soccer's showpiece for the first time, after previous bids from Morocco and Egypt had failed.
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Roomful's great showpiece is the Partita for 8 Voices, a four-movement work by one of its members, the alto Caroline Shaw, which won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for music.
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Bareman, who was appointed FIFA's first chief of women's football in 2016 by president Gianni Infantino, said the aim was to have more people than ever watch the 2019 showpiece.
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Modern Athens was re-designed in the 19th century as a showpiece of the classical era, to the point where awkward vestiges of other civilisations, including Christian churches, were destroyed.
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That's because when it's warm out, and his sleeves are rolled up, the vintage IWC model — with rose gold lugs and a honey-hued face — is something of a showpiece.
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But it&aposs one of the most logistically-challenging locations chosen by UEFA for its showpiece club final, with a shortage of hotel rooms and a lack of flight landing slots.
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The 26-year-old will be first Dutchwoman to compete at the season-ending showpiece in more than 20 years, since Brenda Schultz-McCarthy lost in the first round in 1997.
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The best sense anyone can make of Britain's modestly rising maritime ambitions is that the Royal Navy, including its showpiece carriers, hopes to be a useful adjunct to the American one.
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Konta, who has rocketed up the rankings this year, attended the draw ceremony for the showpiece season-ender on Friday having reached number eight on the WTA's Road to Singapore list.
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With the showpiece Rugby World Cup starting in less than three months, RA and Folau were urged to settle quickly for the good of the game by a prominent rugby executive.
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It was Hernandez's 50th goal for his country and his fourth strike at a World Cup, taking him level with Luis Hernandez as Mexico's leading scorer in soccer's global showpiece tournament.
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To ensure the compliance of other ICC members, India, by far the biggest draw in the game, threatened to withdraw from showpiece events like the World Cup and the World Twenty20.
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The third episode is a chilling showpiece, dramatizing Gilead's tilt from liberal democracy into fascism, nimbly shifting from intimate scenes to grand ones, making one form of drama frame the other.
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The filmmaker George Lucas envisions that lot as the site of an undulating, futuristic showpiece of a museum devoted to narrative art, with three theaters and a 4,200-square-foot library.
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It is the showpiece of the small cavelike space, surrounded by a bio-ethanol fireplace and leather seating that can be separated into various components to accommodate up to 15 people.
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Previous such showpiece events have been preceded by curbs on industry and traffic in and around the Chinese capital in a bid to reduce pollution and ensure a blue-sky backdrop.
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The season's final episode, built around a showpiece monologue for Philip Baker Hall, is a highlight; a hard-boiled installment about a pair of mixed-martial-arts fighters is less so.
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He acknowledged Real face a tall order against the Euroleague's regular season winners CSKA, who beat city rivals Khimki in the playoffs to reach the showpiece event in the Serbian capital.
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After a two-week hiatus for the year's final international break, the continent's major leagues return with a flourish, with showpiece encounters dotting the schedules in England, Spain, Italy and Germany.
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India's $150 billion showpiece information technology (IT) sector struggled through 2016 as Western clients slowed discretionary spending ahead of the U.S. presidential election and Britain's surprise decision to leave the European Union.
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"Onegin", directed by Chen Shi-Zheng, was the opening showpiece of the Spoleto Festival USA: an annual arts extravaganza, featuring top-notch music and theatre, which this year runs until June 11th.
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This was what the League Cup was all about: a showpiece game between two of the Premier League's surprise packages, ending in major silverware for a club that had previously gone without.
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The four grand slam tournaments — Wimbledon, the French, U.S. and Australian Opens — all offer ATP and WTA ranking points, while the ITF's showpiece team events, the Davis and Fed Cups, do not.
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Presided over by King Norodom Sihamoni and Prime Minister Hun Sen, the boat race is a major showpiece of a three-day festival which includes concerts, fireworks and a lantern boat display.
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City's Kyle Walker made a last-ditch goal line clearance from Mo Salah's effort in the dying moments and with no extra time being played the showpiece went to a penalty shootout.
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Addis Ababa became the showpiece of the country's transformation, with a light rail system, ubiquitous high-rise construction and luxury hotels, high-end restaurants and wine bars packed with newly minted millionaires.
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Athletics, the showpiece of the Olympic Games, was stunned last year when Russia was suspended from the sport after a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) investigation showed a state-sponsored doping program.
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Hammond went into the parliamentary showpiece facing a near-impossible task: boost the popularity of a divided and weak Conservative government without breaking fiscal rules he set out just 12 months earlier.
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With her burnished, supple alto, Victory started "Feeling Good," a Nina Simone showpiece, as a bluesy reflection, then shifted it toward the Caribbean lilt of her own songs calling for self-acceptance.
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His three goals against Spain made him the oldest man to score a hat-trick in the World Cup Finals and only the fourth to net in four consecutive global showpiece tournaments.
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The $28 million makeover of the showpiece hotel in downtown Saratoga Springs, N.Y., the Adelphi, took five years and was a source of much curiosity in the celebrated spa and gambling refuge.
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Of course there is an awful lot of rugby to be played before then, with all 20 teams doing everything they can to be a part of the showpiece event in Yokohama.
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Asia has held the quadrennial showpiece of international soccer only once when Japan and South Korea were joint hosts in 2002 and Qatar will bring it back to the continent in 2022.
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The program also included Mr. Adès's stream-of-consciousness Concert Paraphrase from his opera "Powder Her Face," and ended with an account of Ravel's "La Valse" that had this showpiece sounding dangerous.
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The semi-finals and final will be staged in Lyon, home to powerhouse Olympique Lyonnais, historically the most successful club in women's football in France, with the showpiece match slated for July 7.
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These went alongside the underdog stories and proverbial giant killings, and together they made a competition that was no longer just the FA Cup's poor cousin, but actually a gripping showpiece in itself.
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The Italian, signed from Napoli last month, scored twice in Sunday's Wembley showpiece to draw the Saints level, only for Zlatan Ibrahimovic to score the winner with the match headed to extra-time.
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At the Under-217 edition of the sport's showpiece tournament this past month in India, printed on the back of the USA's Number 220 shirt was a small word with big connotations: WEAH.
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History will be made for fans of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) this Sunday, when for the first time the main event of its showpiece pay-per-view will be an all-female affair.
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He has made improvements to his showpiece capital, opening water parks and building high-rise apartments along the Taedong River, but most of the country lives in misery, without enough food or electricity.
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The schedule was also noticeable for the number of finals taking place in the morning, partly due to the heat as well as considerations for U.S. broadcasters wanting showpiece events in prime time.
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She appeared as a guest with Petit's Ballets des Champs-Élysées, where Gsovsky, her former teacher, choreographed a highly difficult showpiece for her, "Grand Pas Classique," with which she later toured the world.
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Once considered a showpiece for Brazil's steel industry, the CSA mill has seen production costs soar amid high inflation, currency volatility and political instability that have pushed Brazil's economy into a deep recession.
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In fact, as in the other great libraries I visited, the Laurenziana's reading room is now primarily a showpiece, with side rooms of a later and lesser vintage used for lectures and exhibits.
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The world number nine, who barged through the back door to qualify for the London showpiece by winning the Paris Masters, triumphed 6-303 1-6 6-4 to prolong his London adventure.
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Arsenal's narrow miss in the 2006 final feels like centuries ago at this point, and it's almost impossible to imagine them beating Real and Juve on the way to the tournament showpiece now.
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Comedian Graham Norton, host of British television coverage of the annual musical showpiece, sparked debate between newspaper columnists in the two countries earlier this week when he described Australia's inclusion as "kind of stupid".
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FIFA has also been forced to investigate controversies surrounding the awarding of its showpiece, the World Cup finals, especially the decision to grant the 2018 tournament to Russia and the 2022 finals to Qatar.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Roger Federer has history in his sights on men's semi-finals day at Wimbledon on Friday as he aims to reach a record 11th showpiece match and, ultimately, an unprecedented eighth title.
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The encouraging number is an indication of the building excitement 18 months out from the summer showpiece with 64 percent of the applications coming from women, while 36 percent were overseas applicants, they said.
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Its replacement started with just four, the spindly white towers of the Fattah al-Aleem mosque (pictured), a showpiece project in the new purpose-built capital rising in the desert 0003km east of Cairo.
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The top four qualify directly for the tournament in Russia next year and the fifth-placed side go into a playoff against a team from Oceania for another place in the global showpiece event.
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Even the election in August was meant to be a showpiece of tech wizardry, with voting stations automatically beaming the results via mobile internet to a computer in the capital, Nairobi, to prevent tampering.
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While "The Force of Things" was running in Montclair, the Park Avenue Armory revived Pierre Boulez's computer-enhanced showpiece "Répons," and BAM offered Matthew Aucoin's " Crossing ," a keenly imagined chamber opera about Walt Whitman.
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A further fly in the ointment is the ATP Cup — a team event to be launched in Australia next January — although the proof of the pudding will be how the Madrid showpiece is received.
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Stephen Foster gets a frantic makeover in this instrumental showpiece, one of Domino's own favorites and a direct link to boogie-woogie forebears like Albert Ammons, whose "Swanee River Boogie" clearly sparked this version.
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Presidents typically use the annual showpiece to invoke national togetherness, to reach across partisan divides and to market political priorities while relishing the pageantry of an occasion designed to highlight their power and prestige.
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Lavreysen, 21, who along with Hoogland was part of the Dutch team that won the team sprint gold earlier, won both races in the sprint final for his second gold of the showpiece event.
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Tuesday's reception is one of the central showpiece events of the two-day meeting that takes place on Tuesday and Wednesday and is significant because it helps celebrate the 70th birthday of the alliance.
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The announcement offered few details on how important targets would be achieved, although Mr. Albayrak promised to suspend some of Mr. Erdogan's showpiece infrastructure projects and bring in "more sound public-private partnership practices".
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JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon had originally planned to give a keynote address at the conference, so this leaves Saudi Arabia just over a week to find another prominent speaker for its showpiece.
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The house's architect, Paul McClean, who also designed the home that Jay-Z and Beyoncé paid $88 million for earlier this year, said it would be as much an entertainment showpiece as a house.
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Members of the royal family and government ministers won't attend this year's FIFA World Cup hosted by Russia, a way to politicize what will be a showpiece event for Russia on the world stage.
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He won 27 singles titles, reaching a career high ranking of third in the world in 2013, which was also when he reached his only Grand Slam final, losing the French Open showpiece to Nadal.
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Axelsen, a bronze medalist in the 221 edition of the showpiece event in Copenhagen, knocked out China's Chen Long 214-9 21-10 in 39 minutes for his second career victory over the defending champion.
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The U.S. won the 2015 women's World Cup, a title they will defend in France in June, while the men failed to qualify for the last edition of FIFA's showpiece event in Russia in 2018.
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Instead of the showpiece the military wanted to show they were ready to contain the problem, what gets broadcast across the country is the best military money can buy getting literally eaten alive by zombies.
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Homestead was considered a showpiece for the Air Force, with 4,400 active-duty military personnel and roughly the same number of civilian employees working on a well-tended, 3,345-acre installation lined with palm trees.
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No effort spared China is not taking any chances with the showpiece event -- Hangzhou is in "virtual lockdown," according to CNN's Andrew Stevens, in the lead-up to the arrival of world leaders on Friday.
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Kahn knew how to make a sculptural showpiece — see his 1982 National Assembly Building of Bangladesh that hulks over moats like a modernist castle — but every choice in this building design was about the art.
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"Since its Shanghai debut in 2004, the Formula 1 Chinese F1 Grand Prix has become a motorsport showpiece for China but also a fixture for all of Asia Pacific's and global motorsports fans," added Jiang.
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Lokomotiv will now play compatriots and six-time winners CSKA Moscow in the semi-finals, while Fenerbahce Istanbul will lock horns with Spaniards Laboral Kutxa Vitoria at the May 13-133 showpiece event in Berlin.
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Earlier in the day, he had publicly thrown down a gauntlet and tried to force the speaker to back down over her refusal to let next Tuesday's showpiece speech take place in the House chamber.
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United had taken a rather fortunate 2-0 lead with Ibrahimovic's 19th-minute strike and Jesse Lingard's clinical finish but Southampton striker Manolo Gabbiadini's brace either side of halftime breathed life into the showpiece match.
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The family patriarch, Frank Stronach, is a Canadian auto-parts billionaire who has invested much of his fortune in breeding and owning thoroughbreds and acquiring showpiece racetracks, even as interest in the sport has declined.
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It's a great showpiece for a dinner party or buffet for relatively little effort, and, when you make one from scratch, substituting fresh juice and fruit for artificial flavoring and color, it can be spectacular.
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Netia Jones stages Hans Zender's orchestral reimagination of "Winterreise," with Ian Bostridge, the tenor, in the festival's showpiece, and there's also Schubert conducted by Edward Gardner and Gianandrea Noseda with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra.
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Madrid was chosen as the first host for the soccer World Cup-style showpiece and this week, in La Caja Magica stadium, the 210-year-old Davis Cup has been under scrutiny like never before.
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Now entering its third season, complete with a new cast, The Crown is making even more explicit the idea that the monarchy is not merely a showpiece but an essential component of modern British democracy.
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While Dom and the rest of the team are engaged in their Russian ice battle, Shaw sneaks onto Cipher's plane as part of a side mission, and Statham gets the showpiece action sequence he deserves.
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Still, bets that the U.S. Federal Reserve would cut interest rates guided the FTSE 100 to its best month since January, counteracting effects of U.S. sanctions on Iran and uncertainty ahead of the Trump-Xi showpiece.
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The football body has also been forced to investigate controversies surrounding the awarding of its showpiece, the World Cup finals, especially the decision to grant the 2018 tournament to Russia and the 2022 finals to Qatar.
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"The government has the time to say 'let's stop the clock' and everything will be OK," CGT chief Philippe Martinez said when asked by Reuters if his union was willing to disrupt the showpiece soccer event.
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In recent years, demand for space stones has come from wealthy Chinese collectors, who seem to want the largest showpiece they can get their hands on, and from tech bros, who pine for the rarest ones.
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The count, which comes ahead of national elections scheduled for next year, was meant to be a showpiece of digital innovation, with census officials capturing data on touch tablets and transmitting it over mobile phone networks.
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But the administration also says that any deal must include funding for a border wall—an immediate non-starter for Democrats (and probably repellent to budget-hawk Republicans too: the wall is a ludicrously expensive showpiece).
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ARCADIA, California (Reuters) - Second choice Arrogate stole the limelight from favorite California Chrome with a storming finish to win the showpiece $22 million Breeders' Cup Classic by half a length at Santa Anita Park on Saturday.
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Croatia secured a hard-won spot in the tournament showpiece against France, to be held at Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium, after defeating England 2-1 on Wednesday, the team's third consecutive match to go into extra time.
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Myth and Mystique: Cleveland's Gothic Table Fountain features, alongside the gilded showpiece, 15 associated objects that inform visitors on an aspect of the table fountain, from its function to its stylistic devices to its possible patron.
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Many of Sall's showpiece building projects, including Diamniadio -- a futuristic city being built from scratch on a patch of semi-desert along the Dakar peninsula -- are half finished, with reinforcing bars poking out of concrete shells.
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The showpiece conservation project was its height in 2008 when the Senate approved the Hague treaty, partly in response to the terrible vandalism and looting which had occurred across Iraq, for example at Baghdad's great museum.
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The new law, enthusiastically celebrated as a showpiece of bi-partisanship, is long and full of details, almost all of which were never discussed or addressed publicly in Congress and never reported on by the media.
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Federer, making his 16th appearance at the ATP's showpiece finale, had not lost any of his previous 45 round-robin matches in straight sets before his 7-6(4) 6-3 loss to the Japanese player.
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The Hamburg authorities wanted to preserve and redevelop the remaining structure and commissioned the Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron to create an architectural and cultural showpiece, with 26 floors added to the original eight-story building.
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Many of Sall's showpiece building projects, including Diamniadio — a futuristic city being built from scratch on a patch of semi-desert along the Dakar peninsula — are half finished, with reinforcing bars poking out of concrete shells.
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Injuries have remained frustratingly in the picture, though, with a back problem forcing her to retire during the Rogers Cup final and withdraw from Cincinnati, after she again reached Wimbledon showpiece at the All England Club.
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Few dates on the global sporting calendar are as keenly-anticipated as the Augusta National showpiece, but organisers have moved swiftly to postpone golf's opening major which was due to be played between April 215-12.
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He also writes a zany tour de force for the Bakst character: in one scene, she inserts herself into the football pre-game show and delivers "The Star-Spangled Banner" as an ornate bel-canto showpiece.
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London County Council announced a plan to reconstruct the South Bank as a "showpiece of civic development", with a "cultural complex including a theatre", and in 1949, the government passed the National Theatre Act, confirming state support.
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This high-energy overture is, in its way, a good orchestral showpiece — loquacious speed, rattling brio, complex ensemble — though I find it introduces tunes for the first time as if it were reiterating them for the hundredth.
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World number one Rafael Nadal, who is recovering from a knee injury to play in the season-ending showpiece, heads the other group and will face Belgian David Goffin, Bulgarian debutant Grigor Dimitrov and Austrian Dominic Thiem.
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Bluepoint also handled the remaster of the Uncharted trilogy, but updating Gravity Rush from a fuzzy, low-resolution portable game to a showpiece on the most powerful video game console available marks a higher level of accomplishment.
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Romanian Halep was playing in her third Madrid final in four years, having lost the 2014 showpiece to Maria Sharapova, and her victory made her the second woman to retain the title after Serena Williams in 2013.
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Pyongyang is considered by many North Korea watchers to be the country's showpiece -- North Korea's government selects its best and brightest to live in the capital, and rarely grants foreign journalists access to the more impoverished countryside.
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There's a showpiece array of stuffed vine leaves and lamb chops, flipped out of the pot and served upside down with yogurt, or you could entertain more simply with her generous platter of well-spiced chicken wings.
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We have no way of knowing how much was spent on this showpiece project or the difference the same resources could have made to poorer parts of the country, places North Korea doesn't allow foreigners to see.
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Williams has already had two failed attempts in finals to win that 24th major - after contesting last year's Wimbledon and U.S. Open showpiece matches - and, regardless of what she says, everyone knows the American wants that record.
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At issue is the decision of Italian soccer authorities to forge ahead and stage the showpiece game — a matchup of the winners of the previous season's domestic league and cup competitions — in Jidda, Saudi Arabia, next month.
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The demolition order stems from a royal decree in 183 to make the ancient Rattanakosin area, which is also home to the Grand Palace and other historic sites, a showpiece of restoration and a magnet for tourists.
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South Africa and Brazil, which hosted the 2010 and 2014 World Cups, were criticized over alleged human rights violations while there are also concerns about Russia and Qatar which are staging the next two global showpiece tournaments.
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While there are medal targets, Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-o-cha has asked the athletes to also enjoy themselves in Indonesia while reminding them that they will also be their country's representatives at the continental showpiece.
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He missed this year's showpiece FA Cup final at Wembley stadium as the game between Chelsea and Manchester United fell on the day he was best man at the wedding of his brother Prince Harry to Meghan Markle.
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Former world number ones Adam Scott and Vijay Singh, and fellow major winners Louis Oosthuizen and Charl Schwartzel, are among those who have already announced that they will skip this summer's global sports showpiece in Rio de Janeiro.
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Soon after he became prime minister in 2015 the NCC suggested several options for housing Canada's first family, from extensive repairs on 24 Sussex to knocking it down and building an environmentally friendly showpiece residence in its place.
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Later, pandemonium broke out in the concourse outside the media center as the 20-times Grand Slam champion, who skipped the last three editions of the claycourt showpiece, headed for his post-match duties through hoards of fans.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - As the two-year mark approaches for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Japan is being scorched by an intense heatwave that has prompted fears of similar extreme weather when the sporting showpiece takes place in the country.
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My next stop was a site seen by many as the showpiece of Saudi archaeology: Mada'in Saleh, or al-Hijr in Arabic, an ancient settlement of the Nabatean Empire that left its biggest traces about 2,000 years ago.
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But in the midst of more news about what may have happened to Khashoggi — including possibly being beaten, drugged, murdered, and posthumously dismembered — and mounting pressure from US lawmakers, Mnuchin decided to no longer attend the Saudi showpiece.
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Soccer's next global showpiece tournament was moved to November and December to avoid Doha's intense summer heat, but Qatar decided to stick with the chilled stadiums in order to have future venues that would be usable year-round.
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In recent years Chinese funding in Micronesia has built office and residential complexes for government officials, a showpiece new convention centre in the capital city Palikir, transport infrastructure and student exchanges, according to a recent report by Rand.
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The race, Nascar's biggest showpiece and its season-opening event, was marred by one crash after another, including a 280-car wreck that took out, among others, three of the four members of the Stewart-Haas Racing team.
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Australia has been represented by over 50 indigenous Olympians at the summer Games but Windsor will be the first to break the ice at the winter showpiece despite the nation making its debut at the 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Games.
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"Shanghai Roastery is going to be much better than the Seattle one," said Wong, declining to give further details on what the showpiece would look like – other than to hint at it being like a "second Disneyland in Shanghai".
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Failing to qualify for the quadrennial showpiece was a heartbreaking setback given the amount of time and hard work she had put in for training, and she conceded the thought of hanging up her gloves had crossed her mind.
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Bets that the Fed would ease policy have put the FTSE 100 on course for its best month since January, counteracting effects of U.S. sanctions on Iran and uncertainty ahead of the Trump-Xi showpiece at the G20 summit.
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New York has a few competitive disadvantages: its trains run 24/7, and, in spite of its self-regard, it is not its nation's undisputed urban center and showpiece, and therefore not the beneficiary of outsized attention and funds.
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In response to criticism that the big-servers were making their showpiece into a boring ace contest, Wimbledon changed the grass it uses in late 2000 from 70 percent Rye and 30 percent creeping red fescue to 100 percent Rye.
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The Rod Laver Arena evening clash between the only two grand slam winners left in the women's draw had the feel of a showpiece final rather than a third-round match-up but only 21st seed Kerber rose to the occasion.
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The royal mom has teamed up with two designers, Andrée Davies, 55, and Adam White, 45, to create a showpiece for the annual Chelsea Flower Show in May — and the design plans for their "Back to Nature" garden have been revealed.
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Try "Housequake," a goofy funk showpiece in which Prince, disguised as Bugs Bunny, exhorts us to jump up and down to the brand new groove going round, having artificially sped-up his voice to sound higher, dinkier, and more androgynous.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese sports official promised on Friday to work with the builder of a showpiece stadium for the 2020 Olympics to stamp out "death by overwork", a designation authorities applied last week to the suicide of a stadium worker.
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Then, at the climax to the match, Nadal, fighting as only he knows how, threatened to ambush Federer's quest for a record-equalling ninth Wimbledon singles title by saving four match points before Federer took his place in Sunday's showpiece.
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Italy-Spain was a game that sounded like a final, smelled like a final, felt like a final, but it was, instead, here at Stade de France in late June as opposed to two weeks from now in the event's showpiece.
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SHENZHEN (Reuters) - Holder Elina Svitolina will face world number one Ash Barty in the end-of-season WTA Finals showpiece on Sunday after they got past Belinda Bencic and Karolina Pliskova respectively in the semi-finals at Shenzhen Bay Sports Center.
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The local World Cup organizing committee said 776 children would work as ballboys and ballgirls at the 64 match tournament, but this was the first time an all-female group had operated at the opening game of the FIFA showpiece.
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At the opening night of "Semiramide," she was ill at ease in her early scenes: her showpiece aria, "Bel raggio lusinghier," suffered from uneven phrasing, intrusive vibrato, and a constricted high E. After that, she sang with greater assurance and bite.
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The showpiece of that largesse is a new training facility in the city of Jericho, where U.S. military personnel also provide training, and one of the locations visited by CNN during a year of exclusive access to the Palestinian Security Services.
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The venue, which will host the kayak and canoe slalom at the July 24-August 9 Games next year, was the third purpose-built venue to be unveiled on schedule — a further indication of Tokyo's readiness to host the summer showpiece.
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The showpiece of the army tour, though, was not the tunnels, but the construction of a concrete-and-electronic barrier, dug deep into the earth, that General Fox said will eventually detect other tunnels and stop more from being built.
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The fate of the 24-nation, month-long showpiece due to start in June had hung in the balance ever since Europe's domestic leagues shut down in the wake of the sweeping health crisis, which has killed around 22022,22020 people worldwide.
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While the salon continues to be the showpiece luxury watch event in London, the absence of former exhibitors such as Tudor, Montblanc and Jaeger-LeCoultre will be a concern to The Telegraph, the British newspaper that bought the event in 210.
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The program's big band will present Composition No. 55, a showpiece from "Creative Orchestra Music 1976" that tips a hat to the work of Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus, while also reveling in Mr. Braxton's idiosyncratic vamps and quickly careening melodies.
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However, they have boycotted the Madrid showpiece in protest at the traditional "home and away" format being largely scrapped by the International Tennis Federation in favor of an 26-nation season-ending climax played in one city over seven days.
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Right now, IDENTITY is mostly a showpiece, but if he does wind up mass-producing and selling them (which he's currently talking to a manufacturing firm about doing), Wei says you could theoretically replace the band as often as you want.
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The tests come at a particularly sensitive time for Beijing as the ruling Communist Party's National People's Congress convenes for its annual gathering, a carefully stage-managed political showpiece during which political sensitivities are heightened and distractions are especially unwelcome.
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HORGOS, China/KHORGOS, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - On the border of China and Kazakhstan, an international free trade zone has become a showpiece of Chinese President Xi Jinping's signature "Belt and Road" Initiative to boost global trade and commerce by improving infrastructure and connectivity.
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At 6ft-11in (2.11m), Cox will be hard to miss in the showpiece match but he has long had to deal with a higher level of scrutiny since being plucked out of an AFL draft combine in Los Angeles by scouts in 2014.
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Seventh-seeded Croat Cilic, a three-times Grand Slam finalist who reached the showpiece game in Melbourne this year, has had a fairly easy path to the quarters apart from a five-set tussle in the third round with Australian Alex de Minaur.
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For a three-year period, a team of researchers from Peking University and Fudan University sampled air quality in 803 cities before and after the annual showpiece meeting of China's parliament and top advisory body in March, known locally as the two sessions.
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On the eve of Computex, Taiwan's big showpiece event where PC makers roll out the latest and best implementations of Intel CPUs, mobile rival ARM is announcing its own big news with the unveiling of a new generation of ARM CPUs and GPUs.
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In the dance, created as a showpiece for Herman Cornejo, a principal celebrating his 20th anniversary with Ballet Theater, Ms. Tharp is looking at her own career and the ghosts in it, or the larger-than-life choreographers who came before her.
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While India's government has been keen to get Apple to manufacture in India as a showpiece investment, it has told the U.S. firm there would be no policy exemptions, so there will be no tax breaks on parts imports, the people said.
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The 25-year-old, who arrived as world number four but can top the WTA rankings if she beats unseeded Jelena Ostapenko in Saturday's showpiece, was the pick of seven-time champion Evert before the tournament and nothing has altered her view.
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United had taken a 2-0 lead with Ibrahimovic's free kick and Jesse Lingard's shot but Southampton striker Manolo Gabbiadini's double either side of halftime breathed life into the showpiece match leaving the stage set for the Swede to snatch the winner.
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A huge fan favorite just like 212 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah, 'Chrome' is near the end of his illustrious career and is the early favorite to win the Classic, the showpiece in the two-day racing carnival at Santa Anita Park.
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Economic assessments of helping the homeless tend not to include other costs, like deployment of first responders to encampments, periodic showpiece cleanups of those encampments, street cleaning services, losses in tourism and business dollars, and all the other things cities pay attention to.
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Big, modern, cacophonous and extremely, if not annoyingly, popular, Miku is in the heart of the gleaming, glassy waterfront area, overlooking Burrard Inlet, the mountains beyond, and, if you get the right table, the graceful sails of Vancouver's architectural showpiece, Canada Place.
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Former world number one golfers Adam Scott of Australia and Fiji's Vijay Singh, and fellow major winners Louis Oosthuizen and Charl Schwartzel of South Africa, are among those who previously announced they would skip this summer's global sports showpiece in Rio de Janeiro.
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The show they choose — "Springtime for Hitler: A Gay Romp With Adolf and Eva at Berchtesgaden" — is the film's musical showpiece, a tasteless parody of 1930s musicals with Nazis singing and dancing and chorines wearing outsize beer steins and pretzels on their heads.
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For the first time since 1999, no Spanish player was involved in the singles at the showpiece event featuring the world's top eight players, with only Lopez and his namesake Marc Lopez flying the flag for the powerhouse nation in the doubles.
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Almost a year to the day since Zverev marked his debut in the season-ending showpiece by toppling the big-serving Croat, the 21-year-old Zverev again prevailed in a scrappy contest to take his career record over Cilic to 6-1.
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BARCELONA (Reuters) - Rafael Nadal reached the final of the Barcelona Open by dispatching Argentine Horacio Zeballos 43-3 6-4 on Saturday to book his place in Sunday's showpiece against Dominic Thiem where he will be looking to win the tournament for a 10th time.
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The royal mom of three, who was an art history major at at the University of St. Andrews, is set to debut her showpiece creation for the annual Chelsea Flower Show next week, and on Monday, the palace shared a glimpse into her artistic process.
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With limited diplomatic or military options, experts believe it is this showpiece project – part of China's "One Belt, One Road" strategy of integrating the regional market with infrastructure investments – that India is targeting to force China to rein in its "all-weather friend" Pakistan.
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Those probes come against a broader background of suspicion over the FIFA Executive Committee's allocation of FIFA's showpiece event, the four-yearly World Cup, to Russia and Qatar on Blatter's watch; Swiss authorities are investigating whether bribes were paid to help secure the hosting rights.
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She scored the game-winning goals that gave the Americans the gold medal at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics, and she scored a hat trick in the 2015 Women's World Cup final as the United States won the sport's showpiece for a third time.
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Through one lens, this game was a warning for the future, the opening of a door to an era when UEFA, Conmebol's European counterpart, feels at liberty to move its Champions League final outside Europe, if showpiece games are made available to the highest bidder.
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In addition, FIFA has been forced to investigate controversies surrounding the awarding of its showpiece, the World Cup finals, especially the decision to grant the 2018 tournament to Russia and the 2022 finals to Qatar, a small, scorching desert state with little soccer tradition.
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Last month, Daniel Weiss, the president and chief executive of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, said in a statement that it valued its longstanding relationship with the Sackler family, whose name is on the wing housing the museum's showpiece Temple of Dendur.
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Mr. Gambrel, the founder and president of the design firm S.R. Gambrel, bought the house through an estate sale in 2011 for $212 million and, in a top-to-bottom renovation, remade the space into a showpiece with contemporary and 24.75th-century elements mixed throughout.
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Unfortunately for Anderson, the 43-hour gap he had between the end of his semi-final on Friday and the start of Sunday's showpiece was simply not enough to get his fatigued and battle-weary body ready for what was the biggest match of his life.
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A unified Korea would gain another unusual showpiece from the destitute North: the unfinished Ryugyong Hotel, which at 314 metres is the tallest skyscraper on the peninsula—though two new towers currently under construction in the South will both rise above 500 metres within a few years.
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He has a 14-2 record against Nishikori, whose last victory over the Serb came in the 2014 U.S. Open semi-finals before he lost in the showpiece match to Croatian Marin Cilic, who the Japanese overcame in five sets to reach this year's last four.
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Sunday's parade, the annual LGBTQ march that commemorates the 1969 Stonewall Inn Riots, will be the showpiece, but you can celebrate with your feet in another way this week too, at one of the many parties being held in the city as part of NYC Pride.
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It's a showpiece about Churchill, who drinks copiously, makes rude gestures both on purpose and accidentally, and, though brusque at times, seems genuinely to care for the people around him, including his wife (Kristin Scott Thomas), children, and secretary (Lily James), all of whom love him back.
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She sets the table with her Noritake wedding china and her collection of contemporary pottery, but the table itself is the showpiece: Shipped to Chicago as a wedding present in 1983, it is inlaid with semiprecious stones by descendants of the artisans who built the Taj Mahal.
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This is the first time that the Libertadores has been decided by a single, Champions League-style final — it has traditionally been held over two legs — as CONMEBOL, South America's governing body, tries to stage a showpiece to rival Europe's better-known (and far richer) club championship.
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Mr. Xi has not hesitated to use force in bringing minorities like the Tibetans or the Uighurs to heel, and the showpiece of the parade was the giant DF-41, an intercontinental ballistic missile that can carry 10 nuclear warheads and strike anywhere in the United States.
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Golf is set to return to the Olympics after an absence of more than a century and Grillo is itching to be one of the competitors vying for glory in global sport's showpiece where he will be watched and supported by scores of family and friends.
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Chair umpire Carlos Ramos, in line with the Grand Slam rule book, warned Williams for a coaching violation during last year's showpiece with Japan's Naomi Osaka before deducting a point and later a game for her behavior, which included a smashed racket and calling him a "liar" and thief.
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But the Ford site is poised for a dramatic rebirth: Over the next 20 years, these 122 acres overlooking the Mississippi River are slated to grow into a dense mixed-use neighborhood designed to be a showpiece of energy efficiency, smart design, ecological stormwater management, and enlightened economic development.
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But don't let my musings dull the sheer audacity of the Huawei Mate X. Even as something that's both a showpiece and proof-of-concept, I couldn't agree more with my colleague that I absolutely love how weird phones have become in just the last month or so.
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Rune Anderson, head of the task force of the sport's world ruling body, told reporters he did not expect Russia to be re-admitted to the sport before November, meaning its athletes will not be able to take part in the global showpiece event in London in August.
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Next year, FIFA's showpiece tournament, the FIFA Interactive World Cup, will have an increased prize pool of $1.3 million, with the winner taking home $200,000 — a tenfold jump from the $20,000 grand prize last year — from a final that will be streamed live to a global audience from London.
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WUZHEN, China, Oct 22 (Reuters) - At one of the world's showpiece tech conferences in China, jibes at the United States for its 'bully behaviour' lent a Cold War tone to proceedings as trade tensions once again reared its ugly head in an event that drew a dearth of top U.S. executives.
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Seattle has thriving music and culinary scenes, but applied to Unesco as a City of Literature, highlighting its 19 independent bookstores; widespread library system with a central showpiece attraction in the Seattle Central Library, designed by the architect Rem Koolhaas; and the number of nonprofits sponsoring writing workshops and author readings.
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The league's showpiece game, Bayern's meeting with Borussia Dortmund, was broadcast live on network television in the United States in November; a couple of weeks later, Germany's soccer federation, the DFB, announced a partnership agreement with China's soccer authorities, one that had been negotiated at the very highest levels of government.
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Atlético will play its final league game here on May 21, and a week later, after a showpiece exhibition game between a team of Atlético legends and another of some of the most famous players to grace the Calderón as visitors, the stadium will be closed to soccer for good.
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You can see it on the leafy, Paris-style boulevards that parallel the Kura River, now spanned by Michele De Lucchi's bow-shaped showpiece, the Bridge of Peace; in the proliferation of new restaurants featuring the country's Persian- and Asian-inspired dishes; and in an electronic music scene that some say rivals Berlin's.
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And like the cauldron it created for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City and the showpiece it created for the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia in 2014, many of WET's projects are ones people will talk about, take pictures of and share on Instagram and Facebook, said Doyle.
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The most generous read of Wednesday night's showpiece is that Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Trump have made a calculated decision that Mr. Cohen faces real legal peril for having given an illegal campaign contribution in the form of the Stormy Daniels payment, and that Mr. Trump might be subject to co-conspirator liability.
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In an interview with the Italian newspaper La Stampa last week, UEFA's president, Aleksander Ceferin, pointed out that it was precisely to avoid situations like the brewing one in Kiev that he made it a priority to change the way the host of the Champions League final, UEFA's showpiece event, is chosen.
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But the bottom line is that Mr. Modi's government has failed to deliver on its 2014 campaign promise to "invest in long-required overhaul of stressed infrastructure," focusing instead on constructing new lines, adding amenities like e-ticketing and free Wi-Fi, and investing in a showpiece bullet train between Mumbai and Ahmedabad.
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The real showpiece of the entire collection is the Bacton Altar Cloth, a piece of fabric recovered from a Herefordshire church two years ago that is widely believed to have been part of a skirt worn by Queen Elizabeth I. If true, it would be the only piece of her wardrobe known to have survived.
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For years Mr. Conrad was a beloved figure in the Boston musical community, whose parties at his home in Charlestown often included a performance by Flurry Knox, a beagle, who, with Mr. Conrad at the piano, would bark out what sounded uncannily like the opening phrases of Verdi's showpiece tenor aria "Di quella pira."
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One was a device to hoist a 45-tonne red metal flame atop the Juche Tower in Pyongyang, the showpiece capital of North Korea; the pillar, named after the country's clunky state ideology, was built with 25,550 blocks of granite—one for each day to the 70th year of Kim Il Sung, the country's founder and eternal president.
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On display throughout is Lyons's signature playfulness, from the giant, gold-foil numeral 10 left over from her son Beckett's birthday, to the framed geometric prints by Fred Sandback leaning casually against the fireplace, to the room's showpiece: an original drawing by her favorite artist, Cy Twombly, announcing a 1979 show of his work at Yvon Lambert's Paris gallery.
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ZURICH — The World Cup will grow to 48 teams within a decade under a plan approved unanimously on Tuesday by FIFA's governing council, an enormous expansion of soccer's showpiece tournament that was hailed by supporters as a victory for inclusion but that was derided by critics as the latest money grab by an organization still emerging from a series of financial scandals.
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It was the showpiece of a new exhibition titled (with a whiff of tobacco) "American Style and Spirit," drawing from an extraordinary trove of clothing unearthed from the attic of a chic but thrifty lumber scion named Augusta Roddis, known as Gussie, who died at 23 six years ago at her childhood home in Marshfield, a small city in another hotly contested state, Wisconsin.
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This is what soccer is now, and what it may well be in years to come: UEFA is likely to see this game, should it go ahead, should Boca's latest legal appeal fail, as a green light to take the Champions League final — its own showpiece — outside Europe: to the Middle East, to North America, to wherever the money on offer is most persuasive.
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Mourinho's Manchester United is too reactive, particularly in showpiece games, or its squad is too thin on quality, too light on quantity, to cope; Chelsea is missing the aggression of Diego Costa and the steel of Nemanja Matic, or is too reliant on Eden Hazard; Tottenham is little more than "the Harry Kane team," as Guardiola once, slightly clumsily, put it; Liverpool cannot defend; Arsenal remains unavoidably Arsenal.
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As NFL fans prepare to watch Sunday's Super Bowl in Houston, to be contested by the New England Patriots and Atlanta Falcons, it is by no means inconceivable to ponder a time when the league's showpiece game might be staged outside the U.S. "I am a big believer in never saying never, so I definitely think you can see that (as a possibility) but I don't think you will see it for a while," said Waller.
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