"We knew we could still dedicate one night a week to the N.H.L".
For weeks an online petition had been gathering signatures (more than 9,000 to date) calling for the Met to dedicate opening night to gay Russians as a protest against the law signed in June by President Vladimir V. Putin banning "propaganda on nontraditional sexual relationships".
Prior to 2009, congregations met three times each week; these meetings were condensed, with the intention that members dedicate an evening for "family worship".
If you know the bride would be totally turned off by an hour of opening presents and drowning in crepe paper, dedicate the afternoon to a wine tasting or a spa treatment.
The Met, while expressing its displeasure with the law, has resisted the idea of dedicating opening night to anything.
Dedicating Saturday night's fight to his fallen countrymen would be Mr. Karmazin's way of celebrating their lives.
Before Trinidad left the interview room, he dedicated Saturday night's fight to all Puerto Rican mothers "on the mainland in New York City and all over the world".
"We dedicated opening night to the victims and the individuals who participated on such a Herculean level to help those affected by the tragedy," said Bridget Daley, the theater's director of marketing.
He dedicated the night's final song, "A Face To Call Home," to "Katy, who is my face to call home".
As his diatribe came to an end, he dedicated the night's show to Prince, calling the musician "one of the greatest performers I have ever seen... Every time I saw him, he left me humbled".
