The new building in New York was to be a flagship for an often overlooked field, but the debt payments on the bonds were significant, about $3 million a year.
Newcastle United's renaissance at the inception of the Premier League was rallied by the club's then owner, Sir John Hall, as a flagship for an economic revival of the north east and the restored pride of the "Geordie nation".
As a flagship for British theatre, Incident is an audacious choice.
The Gaskell Society declares that "the restoration of the building will act as a flagship for the regeneration of a socially disadvantaged area".
But I do think that Africa, definitely the political leadership, regards elephants as a bit of a flagship for the continent, like lions.
The episode, involving a Qantas A380 jetliner carrying more than 450 people, was particularly alarming because it occurred on the world's largest passenger plane and a flagship for Airbus, a unit of the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company, or EADS.
"It's clearly a flagship for us".
Besides White Cube2, there is the older 108 Gallery, which has been something of a flagship for the Stuckists, a loose school of more traditional artists (the name was originally an insult), who stand apart from the dirty-linen installations and pickled sharks of British art.
The scheme is considered a flagship for sustainable technologies in historic churches.
The Knicks, a flagship for the N.B.A., stumble in darkness, casting about for direction and something solid to hold.
