Sentence examples for official exposition from inspiring English sources

When the painting was refused by the jury for the 1855 Universal Exposition, Courbet, with the financial support of a friend, opened his own pavilion of Realism to exhibit his works in a site close to the official exposition.

In college you learned about the Salon des Refuses, in which Impressionists like Manet and Pissarro were forced to show their work independently after having been turned down by the official exposition of the French Academy.

A reader might wish that Fletcher didn't feel compelled to do all that official-­history exposition, because these stories have been well told elsewhere.

Historic Guild's Lake occupied part of the lower watershed through the 19th century, and in 1905 city officials held the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition there on an artificial island.

In Whitehorse, the capital of Canada's Yukon Territory, officials now hold an annual exposition showcasing products to help residents mitigate and adapt to an already warmer climate.

The fair's official name was the Century 21 Exposition, but the Center never quite got there until now.

Commemorating the 300th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, the exposition featured many prominent officials, including President Theodore Roosevelt, members of Congress, and diplomats from 21 countries.

He traveled to Philadelphia in 1876 and participated in the grand exposition as superintendent of the official state building.

It's official name is Brussels Universal and International Exposition 1958, the "universal" meaning that it "embrases all human activities," in the phrase….

It's official name is Brussels Universal and International Exposition 1958, the "universal" meaning that it "embrases all human activities," in the phrase of an international convention governing fairs that was signed in Paris in '28, Forty-odd nations are expected at the Fair, as well as seven supranational exhibitors.

In 1928 the Bureau des Expositions was installed in Paris, the official institution that hands out the title "Universal World Exhibition".