We Are Strong" greeted people as they drove in.
When he arrived for a rally in Mbuji-Mayi, a diamond-mining area in East Kasai province where the opposition is strong, crowds greeted him with stones a reminder, if one was needed, of just how far Congo still is from any sort of national reconciliation after the country's recent wars, which killed almost 4m people.
A chorus of boos and a hail of paper cups from the 20,000-strong crowd greeted the "Rehab" singer's abortive performance, which seemed to suggest that her efforts to stay on the wagon after a recent stint in the Priory have ended in failure.
This modest, blandly tuneful show is unlikely to inspire anything like the strong responses that greeted Ray's film, a baroquely stylized, Freudian vision of an American frontier where two women (played by Joan Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge) stand tall and men quake in their shadows.
And are we strong enough to greet the face of mortality with whom our friend had come to grips?
The deal was greeted with strong reservations by environment groups.
The recommendation was greeted with strong opposition from hospitals and an even stronger outcry by organized medicine.
But Cotton's appeal to his audience for solidarity with Trump, which was greeted with strong applause, represented just one part of his enthusiastic embrace of the President.
A similar critical ambivalence greeted another strong competition entry, "Beyond the Hills," from the Romanian director Cristian Mungiu, who won the Palme in 2007 for "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days".
Chávez Taunts Bush On Eve of Talks President Bush arrived in Mar Del Plata, Argentina, for a gathering of Western Hemisphere leaders and was greeted by strong anti-American sentiment and taunts from Venezuela's president, Hugo Chávez.
