Many sporting and cultural events also had to be cancelled due to the wet weather.
New Orleans clearly has a rich history of hosting a wide variety of large-scale sporting and cultural events.
The Olympic Stadium will likely be used for sporting and cultural events.
Mrs Miller defended the involvement of Atos as a major sponsor of the Paralympic Games, saying that such sponsorship was essential to mounting large sporting and cultural events.
It also includes a cafe and bar and will act as a venue for other uses including the screening of live sporting and cultural events from around the world.
And as long as the offerings include live TV for news and important sporting and cultural events and YouTube for its range and immediacy, the rest is optional if the experience and price is right.
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Once it is back up and running, the Birks Cinema will include a cafe bar and act as a venue for other uses including the screening of live sporting and cultural events from around the world.
London's Metropolitan Police Service, known as the Met, is undertaking what it says is its biggest-ever peacetime operation, running for 66 days across 1, 000 venues, including sporting and cultural events, and making use of up to 9, 500 police officers on the busiest days.
Under the sanctions, five neighboring nations will close their borders to landlocked Mali except for humanitarian purposes and deny the nation access to their ports, freeze its accounts in regional banks and suspend its participation in cultural and sporting events.
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Under the sanctions, five neighboring nations were to close their borders to landlocked Mali except for humanitarian purposes and deny the nation access to their ports, freeze its accounts in regional banks and suspend its participation in cultural and sporting events.
Its member states are to deny Mali access to their ports, freeze Mali's accounts in regional banks and suspend Mali's participation in cultural and sporting events.
Scotland would benefit economically from plans to create world class training facilities to be used for pre-Games preparation by many of the 200 competing teams and by taking part in pre-Olympic cultural and sporting events.
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Established in 2009, the Tickets for Troops charity offers free tickets for major cultural, sporting and musical events to the UK's soldiers, sailors and airmen, and their families.
There are cultural and sporting events and occasional field trips.
During the presidential-election campaign, Piramida, the leading independent television station, was reduced to reporting only cultural and sporting events and optimistic economic forecasts, according to its director, Andrei Tsvetkov.
The economists reckon that people gain happiness - though you could call it feelgood or wellbeing factor if you prefer - from attending events both sporting and cultural.
The organisers have promised that the events will leave a sporting and cultural legacy for east London and the rest of the country.
"We have invested in the sporting and cultural infrastructure over recent years in order to be capable of hosting world-class events, " he said.
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