But a cause of national celebration is also, inevitably, an excuse for partisan manoeuvring.
Home Office minister James Brokenshire said the marriage was "an occasion for national celebration".
The liquidation of Osama bin Laden is a cause for full-throated national celebration.
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"Then the whole country could be confident that the Millennium Experience would be a genuine national celebration, not a New Labour launch-pad, " he said.
St David's Day may be 48 hours away but MPs have never let a mere calendar get in the way of an excuse for a national celebration.
The 100-page proposal was issued for public review and feedback in mid-November, providing only two weeks (including one during our national celebration period) for responses by a Dec. 1 deadline.
Stores have been filled for weeks with an array of patriotic paraphernalia, from flag-adorned teapots to aprons to picnic sets, to help hosts set the scene for what is billed as a national celebration.
The feeling that a national celebration was under way was super-charged within 30 minutes of Ennis's victory, when Team GB's Mo Farah won the men's 10, 000 meters and Greg Rutherford won the long jump.
What is supposed to be its finest hour - the 1984 kidnapping of foreign diplomats at a Canadian National Day celebration at a Vienna hotel - turns into dark comedy.
The most recent royal-related national holiday was the celebration of Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee in 2002.
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The president will speak to donors at a candlelight celebration at the National Building Museum on Sunday night.
Today marks the beginning of National Public Health Week, an annual celebration organized by the American Public Health Association every April.
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Now in their sixth year, the Cats Protection's National Cat Awards are the UK's biggest celebration of the real-life stories of companionship, bravery and survival among the UK's 10 million cats.
Rebild National Park has been holding the largest Fourth of July celebration outside of the United States since 1912.
It will feature all the national youth and children's orchestras in a two-day celebration of jazz, brass and choral work.
It was an extraordinary moment of celebration of and with several of America's most consequential national security-minded public servants.
This was not the first year that Rabbi Larry Bazer, the Joint Forces Chaplain for the Massachusetts National Guard, was asked to light the candles at the White House Hanukkah celebration.
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Rebildfesten, a Fourth of July celebration, is by far the most popular holiday that takes place in the national park, commemorating American independence as well as Danish heritage.
Festivities for this first celebration were rounded off with a concert given by the young prize-winners of the Palestine National Music Competition, organized by the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music.
But the biggest story this week in the Big Easy (as New Orleans is nicknamed), as happens every year, is the remarkable revenue the week-long Super Bowl celebration brings in to the host city, the television networks broadcasting the game, and the National Football League itself.
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