Sentences with phrase «of union jack»

The dominant colours of the Union Jack — blue, red and white — can provide beautiful contrast to any room.

Last week I started brain storming some different color combinations of the Union Jack design using the Annie Sloan colors I already had.

I just recently ordered one of those union jack pillow covers from them.

I've seen several renditions of Union Jack dressers in traditional colors (varying colors of blue) but after I had originally seen it by Miss Mustard Seed, I really felt no one achieved perfection quite like she had with Sherwin Williams paints.

I was starting to get kinda tired of the Union Jack thing but yours looked sooooo good.

To create the flag, an image of the Union Jack flag was mapped onto a three - dimensional plane created in a computer animation programme.

The rippled appearance of the Union Jack when it is flown — an unintentional consequence of climate — has been intentionally translated onto the flag's design.

The exhibitionʼs predominantly abstract works in spray paint, oils and charcoal also include both Saberʼs trademark American flag and depictions of the Union Jack too.

In August, Hirst's importance as a British artist was recognised with the inclusion of his Union Jack spin painting in the Olympics 2012 Closing Ceremony.

To top it all off, the sill plate and the Evoque's key will receive etchings of the Union Jack in monochrome.

As a clear indication of the brand's British origins, the structure of the light sources — likewise in LED technology — takes the form of a Union Jack flag.

The styling changes are pretty subtle — there's not much you can do to an iconic design like MINI's — but there are lots of cool details, including taillights that light up the shape of the Union Jack.

The new Mini Convertible's soft - top can be retracted in 18 seconds, and for the first time offers a «Mini YOURS» version with the option of a Union Jack.

A three - spoke steering wheel pokes out from the aluminum dashboard, and the exposed door structures, like the taillights, form the same of the Union Jack.

Our fleet reassembles in the parking lot of the Union Jack Pub, a well - established watering hole near the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Last week I started brain storming some different color combinations of the Union Jack design using the Annie Sloan colors I already had.

Andy Murray distanced himself from those trying to use his Olympic victory for political ends yesterday, as he fought off suggestions his use of the Union Jack reflected an anti-independence message.

Every worry can be fixed with a big wave of the Union Jack.»

Clegg accused his coalition partners of joining Ukip in the belief that «every worry can be fixed with a big wave of the Union Jack.»

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».

The Flag Institute, a UK - based charity with a claim to being the world's largest vexillological organisation, recently ran a poll on the future of the Union Jack.

Having the added bonus of the union jack and Canadian flag prominent for her first photo to the world, is an image we won't forget and will treasure forever!

Except, he didn't quite make it all the way down, getting stuck some 20 meters from the ground, decked out in his suit, his helmet and a couple of Union Jack flags for company.

Marks & Spencer is cutting it close this summer with its «On Your Marks» campaign featuring egg spoon races, lawn tennis, plenty of Union Jacks and the strategically vague tag line «a summer to remember.»

With soft Windsor leather across the doors, steering wheel, and the brand's so - called full width unbroken beam dashboard, there's a sense of specialness and luxury that's rounded out by an Alcantara headliner and details like cut diamond perforations, which form a subtle array of Union Jacks across the seat centers.

Not exact matches

New York's Moxy Times Square hotel is including condoms with a Union Jack logo as part of an overnight stay that also features a travel - sized bottle of gin and a British slang dictionary.

One interesting initiative that has emerged following the debate is at www.catholicvoices.org.uk, headed by Lord Brennan, Austin Ivereigh, Jack Valero and Kathleen Griffin, under the banner of the Catholic Union.

Jack Nelson - Pallmeyer holds a Master of Divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary in New York and has lived in Central America off and on since 1982.

As the UK prepares to negotiate fresh trade deals abroad, new global research from Barclays Corporate Banking reveals two fifths (39 %) of international consumers would be more inclined to buy a product if it displayed the Union Jack.

Odds and ends: Jack Donlan, executive director of the management council, gave his annual state of the union address.

The home jersey is white with teal and pale red, colors that have no association with the Union Jack or the orange and green on the flag of the Republic of Ireland.

The Irish are there with the usual peppering of priests; and the English are represented by upper - class Hooray Henries in de rigueur brown fedoras, as well as by Union Jack - wearing skinheads who have mistaken this for the Liverpool versus Rome soccer game.

«On the basis that, in the report submitted by Fifa ExCo member Chuck Blazer earlier this week, Fifa vice-president Jack Warner would have informed the Fifa president in advance about alleged cash payments to delegations attending a special meeting of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU).

«In particular, the report referred to a special meeting of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU), apparently organised jointly by Fifa vice-president Jack Warner and Fifa executive committee member Mohamed Bin Hammam, which took place on May 10 and 11 2011.

The Swiss AG suspects Blatter of signing a contract with the Caribbean Football Union — headed up by Jack Warner — that he knew was unfavorable for FIFA.

Revelations on Tuesday saw Blatter's right - hand man Jérôme Valcke implicated in the transfer of a $ 10 million bribe from South Africa to Jack Warner's Caribbean Football Union back in 2008.

A Drexel Hill native, Real lined up next to fellow homegrown defender Auston Trusty, 22 - year - old London native Jack Elliott and 24 - year - old right back Keegan Rosenberry, a Lancaster native who was part of the Union's youth system back before the full - time academy had been established.

There just hasn't been enough games for me to do justice to the hundreds of remarkable chaps who have traipsed around the globe under the Union Jack.

Commissioned in 1974 by the International Brigade Association in Scotland (IBASS), who raised the sculptor's # 3,000 fee through an appeal to trade unionists and supporters of the Labour movement in Scotland, it was unveiled by union leader and civil war veteran Jack Jones, who died earlier this year.

Remember the faces of Sophie Hosking and Katherine Copeland when they won gold in the women's lightweight double sculls, or the tears of countless athletes as they watched the Union Jack raised.

Haggis in Scotland, lunch in Northern Ireland, Welsh cakes in Cardiff, fish and chips and a pint of Doom Bar in Cornwall — this was David Cameron as a one - man, Union - Jacked tasting menu.

What's more, not only does the Union Jack constitute our own flag, but it also adorns many other flags from around the world, including those of Anguilla, Bermuda, Australia and New Zealand.

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.

More worrying than the possibility of having to give up the Union Jack is the prospect of what it might be replaced by.

On the other hand, the College of Arms has reportedly stated that, since the Queen will remain head of state in an independent Scotland, the Union Jack will not in fact need to be altered.

Emblematic of Miller's question about what British identity looks like without Scotland, a key symbol of the union, the Union Jack, faces an uncertain fuunion, the Union Jack, faces an uncertain fuUnion Jack, faces an uncertain future.

[1][2] She is married to former trade union leader Jack Dromey, who became Treasurer of the Labour Party in 2004 and MP for Birmingham Erdington in 2010.

As Paul Ward writes in Red Flag and Union Jack, «the majority of the British left has laid a claim to patriotism, not only when events such as wars have overtaken it, but most of the time» (1998: 2).

The first problem for Blair was that the right wing was split into two slates — the AEEU - backed Labour First slate made up of individuals tied to right wing unions, and a number of other Blairites, such as actor Michael Cashman, retired USDAW official Diana Jeuda and Scottish party official - turned - lobbyist Jack McConnell.

As the youngest of six children, his father Jack, a blue - collar, Navy vet of the Korean War, union man and labor advocate who worked for Con Edison for over fifty years, taught him the importance of hard work, dedication, and commitment to community.