Sentence examples for transfer ceremony from inspiring English sources

Last March the US agreed to hand over responsibility for the majority of the detainees, and actually held a transfer ceremony six months later.

On Tuesday, a high-level New Zealand delegation, including a senior Maori tribal chief, visited Rouen for a symbolic transfer ceremony.

"Those who think that through concessions they will gain respect and peace are wrong," Mr. Lieberman said during a transfer ceremony at the Foreign Ministry.

The Afghan government said it was going ahead with what President Hamid Karzai's office had characterized as a "splendid" transfer ceremony scheduled for Monday at Bagram Air Base, where the Parwan prison is, to mark the shift in detention operations.

American officials said neither General Allen nor Lt. Gen. Keith M. Huber, the commander of the American side of the detention facility, would attend the transfer ceremony at Bagram.

As a result of the dispute, Lt. Gen. Keith M. Huber, the American commanding general of the prison, did not attend the transfer ceremony, which featured at least seven generals, two cabinet ministers and other dignitaries from the Afghan side.

Last year, we, three of us children, offered them their wish by having a "merit-transfer ceremony to the next lives and to the dead relatives" based on the dream that my father had that year.

The military calls the process a dignified transfer, not a ceremony, because there is nothing to celebrate.

The Dodgers have not played in the Bronx in Torre's three seasons, and Torre said he would have come to the new place after the 2008 season for a ceremony transferring home plate, but a scheduling conflict arose.

A formal ceremony transferring the ship to the city of Norfolk took place on 16 April 2010.

This was due to both the abandonment of several statutory ceremonies and procedures and the transfer of several remaining ceremonies into the smaller-scale setting of the Inner Palace.