Sentence examples for a common emblem from inspiring English sources

Some clans express their unity in terms of the possession of a common emblem, which may represent the ancestral being or common origin of the members and, as such, is often an object of reverence.

Another common emblem is CT & ES Co., for Consolidated Telegraph and Electrical Subway Company.

The 2012 Summer Paralympics used an emblem sharing a common design with that of the Summer Olympicsthe first time this had ever been done.

He saw them as emblems of a common culture, a world of the European North to which his people belong.

If so, it would join hundreds of other once-common emblems of commerce that either faded from use or vanished abruptly, as their owners hoped to gain a more modern identity or break free from old product lines.

In "The Piano Lesson," set in 1936, Wilson turned a common feature of Depression-era parlors, the upright piano, into an emblem of the black past and of the challenges blacks face in shaping their future.

Another highly recognizable and popular Greek symbol is the double-headed eagle, the imperial emblem of the last dynasty of the Roman Empire and a common symbol in Asia Minor and, later, Eastern Europe.

They were a common part of the cultural landscape until the 1960s, as were, in the South at least, racist enforcer emblems like "Whites Only" signs.

A common design involves the current flag of Greece and the pre-1978 flag of Greece with crossed flagpoles and the national emblem placed in front.

What is an allegory, a symbol, or an emblem?

In a city long an emblem for the bigotry and apartheid blighting Bosnia, Milan Milesovic this week struck a small blow for decency and common sense.