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The fortifications were after all German fortifications - emblems to the French of their own national humiliation.
Likewise, during the wars that ravaged the former Yugoslavia between 1991 and 1999, cultural emblems were deliberately targeted.
In each of the surveys, researchers counted and mapped the different types of flags and other emblems on display.
"Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle, " Graham wrote.
Students at other universities have produced emblems joining Virginia Tech's logo with their own in a sign of solidarity.
He adopted his dress accordingly, sporting clothes that carried emblems of the African continent or portraits of African leaders.
They have achieved the improbable feat of disarming tribesmen in a society where guns are considered indispensable emblems of manhood.
Mr Constantine also recognised the police's "major accomplishment" in issuing new uniforms in April to match legislation on emblems and flags.
Families gawk at a game enclosure featuring stuffed buffalo, grizzlies, bighorn sheep and other rarely seen emblems of the American frontier.
Discussions on flags and emblems is just one issue included in the wide-ranging programme of events planned across all 26 council areas.
And nowhere elicits lovelorn sighs more than the Uffizi, with emblems of love like Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus" gracing its walls.
The national colors, emblems or flowers of a country she was visiting would often be incorporated into the designs as a friendly gesture.
Yet the progression toward atonality also had a mystical aspect: these uncanny new chords could serve as esoteric icons, emblems of the sacred.
It produced an intensely Elitist, nobly disciplined and masculine culture whose emblems were the ink brush, the samurai sword and the tea bowl.
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Justice minister David Ford told the assembly that the Prison Service would have to consider changes to emblems if it was serious about fundamental reform.
To them, our universities are emblems of the highest achievement.
Sea Org members installed faux scaffolding, giant banners bearing the emblems of aircraft manufacturers, and a luxurious office that was fabricated at church facilities, then reassembled inside the hangar.
It shows a young woman rather wistfully seated in a mountain landscape next to a unicorn - the fabled beast is one of the heraldic emblems of the Farnese family.
The South is now home to large numbers of newcomers who are neither black nor white, and who have no stake whatsoever in the continuing fuss over emblems of yore.
They complain that their parades are facing more and more restrictions in terms of where and when they can march, and what emblems they display and what tunes they can play.
The paper says that all paramilitary symbols should be tackled in a strategic manner and the display of paramilitary flags or emblems on main thoroughfares or in sensitive areas needs to be tackled as a priority.
The report, Public Displays of Flags and Emblems in Northern Ireland: Survey 2010, was published by the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen's University and is funded by the Office of the First and Deputy First Minister.
His Jumex collection includes, for example, pieces by 29-year-old Minerva Cuevas, who recently took over part of a Mexican amusement park to create "Dodgem, " a mad display of bumper cars sporting oil company emblems, smashing into one another.
However, Ulster Unionists are applying pressure in the other direction, and said on deciding to return to Northern Ireland's powersharing executive that they expected government assurances on their concerns that the RUC's name and emblems should be retained to be honoured.
Mr Lyttle said the incident demonstrated the "urgent need" for the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister to accept their "statutory responsibility along with the PSNI, agencies and political parties to comprehensively address the appropriate use of all flags and emblems".
Some time about 440BC, the Athenians decided to make all these people get rid of their own currency, with their own national emblems, and use Athenian "owls" instead - in fact some of the public notices laying this down, still survive, inscribed on stone around what was the Athenian empire.
Northern Ireland has a "flags protocol" dating back to the days when Westminster politicians ran matters directly, which includes amongst its objectives removing "paramilitary flags and displays" and "the control of displays of flags and emblems in particular areas such as mixed and interface areas and near buildings such as schools, hospitals, places of worship and community halls".
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