Sentences with phrase «fly this flag because»

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It was the proudest day of that boy's life, because he thought the flags were flying to welcome him, who from far Sicily was coming to the land of promised freedom.

In 2002, the NAACP protested and marched during a NCAA regional in Greenville because the statehouse was still flying the Confederate flag on statehouse property.

I'll let that so - called freak flag fly high because obviously this judgement is misplaced and unwarranted, and frankly, it's almost nice when people judge my breastfeeding choices because it saves me the trouble of having to waste energy figuring out if those are people I want to be friends with.

On the other, we keep the New Labour flag flying by treating the collapsing Liberal Democrat vote as a distraction to be ignored entirely, because the only votes that count are those won from the Conservatives.

The picture was further clouded because Chinese companies sometimes operate vessels flying local flags.

If they come back and talk about how they've loved airplanes since they were a kid, but only because they would see them flying while reading 50 Shades of Grey at the park every weekend, we may be stumbling on a red flag.

Years before Ed Sheeran, Florence Welch or Julianne Moore... years before Prince Harry, Jessica Chastain (who has said she was bullied because of the colour of her hair), Amy Adams (to name but one of a dozen scarlet starlets), or Kelly Reilly of True Detective... years before Josh Homme (the self - proclaimed Elvis of Ginger) or Glen Hansard, or the aforesaid ginge - flag - flying Fassbender, having red hair made you feel like an unloved, and heavily medicated, stepchild of sorts, tolerated by society but not particularly wanted.

Soon after, PUP leader John Smith resigned because the party would not agree to fly the British flag at public meetings.

«We don't expect any public protest, because we have flown the flag before in 2010,» he added.

The flag was flown because the NAACP organized people to stop lynching.»

Not the kind that castles and ships fly or that armies carried into battle (see, e.g., the Battle of the Standard, in reference to which the word was first used in English to mean flag, the OED tells us, because a versifier there wrote: «it was there that valour took its stand to conquer or die»), but growing out of that notion of a centre from which commands are issued all the way to a measure of uniform quality.

The Egyptians, though grateful for Canadian assistance, had prevented Canadians from flying the Canadian flag because it incorporated the British Union Jack.

On the other side of the coin, in 2011, a Florida homeowners association's property manager asked a former NYPD officer that he couldn't fly a flag commemorating the victims of September 11th because it disrupted the «aesthetic harmony of the surrounding properties.»