Sentence examples for emblem device from inspiring English sources

In addition, if the Minister considers it to be in the national interest to do, he may prohibit the "manufacture, sale, use, wearing, display or possession of any flag, banner, badge, emblem, device, uniform or distinctive dress or any part thereof".

Fleur-de-lis, ( French: "lily flower"), also spelled fleur-de-lys, also called flower-de-luce, stylized emblem or device much used in ornamentation and, particularly, in heraldry, long associated with the French crown.

Her spare but eloquent quilt language involved a mastery of appliqué techniques, tribal emblems, Masonic devices and biblical imagery.

Evidently, under South Carolina law any vehicle that displays "any sticker, decal, emblem or other device containing obscene or indecent words, photographs or depictions," violates the law to the extent that it "describes, in a patently offensive way, as determined by comtemporary community standards... parts of the human body" and "lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value".

Elisabeth Dhanens rejectes the theory that the man was a musician on the basis that van Eyck would have made this explicit, portraying him holding a device or emblem clearly symbolizing music.

Also worn on hats are small shieldlike emblems called cap devices.

Her personality, we know, emanates "glamor," but aside from that she seems not only unknowable but unimportant, save as a plot device and, ultimately, an emblem for Nair's confused but powerful fascination with Adriko.

In the rectangle of light caused by the projection of Shigeyoshi Ohi's slide of a swimming carp onto the massive face of Rochester Falls in New York State, his fish, the Japanese emblem of endurance, has the look of a device emblazoned on a banner.

It is a decadent device that is superfluous in almost every detail; an emblem of the pure excess that has turned our modern society's beating heart into a putrid mess of rotting flesh.

Such devices belong to the Renaissance tradition of the "emblem," which combines a motto with a simple symbolic picture (often a woodcut or engraving) and a concise explanation of the picture motto.

It was New York City's clunky, unsophisticated emblem of 1980s law and order — part security tool, part public shaming device — fastened to the front wheels of offending vehicles like the mark of Cain.