Sentences with phrase «national flags in»

The omnipresence of the national flag in churches (which at first shocked me) was a fitting symbol of this legitimating function.

But perhaps most important of all is what I shall call the Union Jack argument: the prospect that we might have to relinquish what is, by any objective standard, the best national flag in the world.

In 2012 a school in Thessaly, central Greece, elected another Albanian, this time a girl, to bear the national flag in the October parade.

Carl begins from the premise that the Union Jack is «the best national flag in the world».

In Group A (Each country, represented by a fan dressed in his team colours, stands and waves national flag in turn before sitting down again) Russia: Russia!

Today, our focus is on the colour blue, rumoured to be the favourite colour of the Prophet Mohammed in Islam, and featured at centre of the Indian national flag in the shape of the «Dharma Chakra», or «wheel of law».

Not exact matches

The French flag - carrier was an early target of the US National Security Agency and its British counterpart GCHQ as it was seen as a terrorist mark and it carried out tests in 2007 on allowing the use of mobile phones on its aircraft.

The Russians had been hoping that a clean record at Pyeongchang would persuade the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to allow them to march at the closing ceremony on Feb. 25 with the Russian flag and in national uniform.

And Ken Squier and Ned Jarrett, who helped call the first flag - to - flag television coverage of the Daytona 500 in 1979 (the race widely credited with catapulting NASCAR into national prominence), will reunite to call a segment of Sunday's race.

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Supporters wave French national flags ahead of a speech by Emmanuel Macron, near the Louvre museum in Paris, France, on Sunday, May 7, 2017.

Protestors wave Turkish national flags as they shout slogans during a demonstration late on March 11, 2017 in front of the consulate of the Netherlands in Istanbul.

Just raising the North Korean flag alongside other national banners in the Olympic Villages required an exemption from South Korean laws banning praise of the North Korea regime, a Pyeongchang organizing committee official told Reuters.

The Japanese national flag flies atop the Bank of Japan (BOJ) headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, on Tuesday, March 15, 2016.

A pedestrian walks past Chinese national flags hanging on a street light as residential buildings stand under construction in the background in Shanghai, China.

Emerald water and white sand with a national american flag in the wind.

National Australia Bank's MLC - home to the country's largest retail superannuation fund and $ 199 billion in assets under management - officially joined the bulging list of financial services sector initial public offering candidates on Thursday morning, when NAB chief executive Andrew Thorburn flagged intentions to divest the business.

The 2018 Federal Budget's allocation of C$ 572.5 million in Digital Research Infrastructure Strategy and C$ 507.7 million for a new National Cyber Security Strategy suggests that policy - makers are heeding the warning flags being raised across the Pacific.

A Chinese national flag and Swire Group flag are seen in Hong Kong, China December 6, 2017.

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The Italian national flag flutters atop of the Quirinale presidential palace in Rome June 26, 2013.

Locals hold Chinese national flags as they shout slogans outside a Carrefour supermarket in Qingdao, Shandong province April 18, 2008.

A postmodern critique of the Catholic Church would find less grist in current controversies than in modern elements already present in the Church: the substituted vernacular mass, or the presence of national flags on church daises.

In Indonesia, school kids are threaten not to salute to Indonesia National Flag.

I am tired of them being offended by our flags, our customs... I am Canadian and in Canada there is a group that tried to have our anthem changed to have Arabic in it... and our flags in public was offensive... oh and they wanted to have turbans as a part of our National Police Force uniform... I would get my head cut off if I made those demands in the middle east.

Rainbow flags were commissioned for the 1984 Democratic National Convention; a mile - long version graced a New York parade on the flag's 25th anniversary; and an even bigger version, sponsored by Absolut Vodka, appeared in Key West in 2003.

They were flown in on a specially chartered plane over night as national flags were lowered to half mast.

But I can't escape the feeling that in the church, the national flag betrays again the ambiguity and tragedy of contemporary biblical faith, rooted in revolutionary messianic hope but, alas, comfortably accommodated to the self - seeking ways of an inevitably corrupted temporal state.

There were neither national nor imperial flags in his meeting rooms.

The National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., recently announced plans to remove two Confederate flags from its stained glass windows.

Greene was escorted from the game for waving a Confederate flag while standing in front of «several African American people» during the national anthem, but argued that he was just invoking the First Amendment and should have been allowed to stay.

In 2002 I was present at their independence celebration, standing next to Father Fernandes as the national anthem was sung and the flag was raised.

Huss noted that BluePrint's decision to open its first store in L.A. would plant a flag in the company's second largest market and further demonstrate its status as a national brand.

But as the home team ran on the field and faced the flag for the national anthem, the fans looked in vain for the Yankee hero.

«How do we achieve these two objectives: how do we somehow, some way convene unity, some how, some way convene the importance of equality in our country, and do so without in any way involving the American flag and the national anthem.

President Donald Trump said at a rally in September that any player who is «disrespecting the flag» with a protest during the national anthem is a «son of a bitch» and should be fired, but players weren't deterred from their protests.

«As a national association, the NCAA opposes this symbol of racism, and since 2001 we have demonstrated our opposition by not playing selected championships in states where the flag was flown prominently.»

Having been called up to the Welsh national side in May though, he could be about to pin his future to the Welsh flag.

The North Korean delegation had 22 athletes for the Olympic games and the national flag of North Korea was raised at the Olympic Village in Gangneung on Thursday.

After the collapse of Ghana Airways, the former national flag - carrier, government invited private participation in the establishment of a new national airline.

However, despite the seemingly advance progress government has made in re-establishing a national airline, the structure of the proposed new flag - carrier is currently imprecise.

He said that the naira is like our national flag; we need to do the needful to put it in its rightful position.

''... that all Member States shall immediately take the necessary measures to prevent the direct or indirect supply, sale or transfer to the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, from or through their territories or by their nationals, or using their flag vessels or aircraft, of arms and related materiel of all types, including weapons and ammunition, military vehicles and equipment, paramilitary equipment, and spare parts for the aforementioned, and technical assistance, training, financial or other assistance, related to military activities or the provision, maintenance or use of any arms and related materiel, including the provision of armed mercenary personnel whether or not originating in their territories...»

Dropping a hint, after NPP acting National Chairman's roundly condemned destabilizing statement, that leaders of the biggest opposition can not guarantee what will happen if the NPP loses the November elections another «militant» member of the opposition party, Hopeson Yaovi Adorye on Tuesday stated on UTV that the party and its 2016 flag bearer have resolved not to waste their time complaining about any supposed unfair treatment in the upcoming elections.

In the comments to Carl's article Anthony Barnett of openDemocracy rebuffs Carl's description of the flag, contending that the «whole point of the Union jack is that it is NOT a national flag».

Cuomo has ordered flags at all state government buildings to be flown at half - staff on Monday in honor of the four New York national Guard members who were killed in a helicopter crash in Iraq last Thursday.

The founder and leader of the All People's Congress (APC), Hassan Ayariga, has criticised the decision of the 2016 flag bearer of the People's National Congress (PNC), Dr Edward Mahama, to accept an appointment as an Ambassador - at - Large in the Nana Akufo - Addo government.

In the following picture: Which flag is placed between the national flag of the Dominican Republic (7th from left) and the national flag of the Republic of China (Taiwan)(9th from left)?

Applebaum contends that the explosion of apparent support for Moldovan students and other protesters (10,000 + people showed up when only around a thousand were expected) was at least in part due to the work of agents provocateurs, who also led or pushed the protesters to break into government offices and plant a Romanian flag on the parliament building (Romania is apparently the national bugbear for pro-Russian Moldovans).

Tompkins County is included in a «red flag area,» reported by the National Weather Service in Binghamton.