To the modern chauvinist, having a central bank ranks in importance up there with having a national flag.
Us players are like those soldiers - we wear the national flag when we play.
Saudia, the national flag carrier, duly bought American, leaving Airbus fuming in the desert.
Every house has been authorized to hang the national flag in memory of those who perished.
Today, at Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory, where the national flag flies on the napkins, patriotism never tasted so good.
They see their democratic rights and their age-old liberties symbolized in their national flag.
This abolition of national flag carriers will, in turn, make it easier to complete cross-border European airline mergers.
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In 1964, the Canadian parliament adopted a national flag with a red maple leaf on a white background.
In 1965, Canada adopted the Red Maple Leaf as its new national flag.
He denied that he had extended favours to Lucio Tan, the owner of the tottering national flag-carrier, Philippine Airlines.
Mr Gaddafi faces charges of complicity in exchanging information, obtaining documents that threaten national security and insulting the national flag.
He also urged MSPs to encourage the flying of the national flag, which he believed to be the world's oldest.
Moreover, the war-priming effects of attractive women were greater than with other potentially provocative stimuli, such as the national flag.
There's also a Confederate national flag and various Imperial Russian, Prussian and German parade helmets, rank caps, medals, insignia and uniforms.
Many mourners at Sunday's funeral waved the light blue flag of the Sunni-based opposition Future Party, while others carried Lebanon's national flag.
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The shields refer to the national flag, which resembles a medieval crest.
It also requires that the national flag be displayed in all classrooms.
Soldiers held Chavez's simple wooden casket, which was draped with the national flag, as a priest recited a prayer and blessing over it.
Hosting the World Cup in 2006, Germans found themselves uniting behind their national flag as they had not been comfortable doing in previous decades.
The white stripes symbolize liberty as represented in our national flag.
This will allow both to maintain their roles as the national flag-carriers while keeping valuable bilateral international landing rights that go along with that status.
Street vendors are doing a roaring trade selling t-shirts, whistles and plastic trumpets, while others are busy painting people's faces the colours of the national flag.
In 1776, George Washington unveiled the Grand Union Flag, the first national flag in America after King George III of England called on American forces to surrender.
When Seiji Maehara, the transport minister, forced Japan Airlines (JAL), the national flag-carrier, into a court-administered bankruptcy, he reportedly had to flout the wishes of his senior civil servants.
The Punjab government has announced a three-day mourning period as a mark of respect for Mr. Singh, during which the national flag will fly at half-staff on government buildings.
Given its prominence, reach and power, it is strange to note that the union flag has no official status in British law and is only regarded as the national flag by virtue of "custom and practice".
"For the record, Fifa did not tell Kulula that they could not use soccer balls, or the word 'South Africa', or the Cape Town stadium, or the national flag or vuvuzelas, " said a statement from football's world governing body.
Tony Fernandes, the bullish chief executive, says that his dream of a new airport was born out of frustration with Malaysia Airports, KLIA's operator, which is controlled by Khazanah Nasional, the government's investment fund, as is Malaysia Airlines, the national flag-carrier.
When Mr Shamir arrived on the scene he was fresh from helping guide the national flag carrier, El Al, towards privatisation and he was willing to take on the job only if he had the same freedom to lead IAI in a similar direction.
On arrival in Jerusalem the cortege, made up of people of all ages, many of them waving the Palestinian national flag and carrying pictures of Husseini, stopped at Orient House, the Jerusalem headquarters of the Palestinian National Authority, where Husseini had had his office.
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