Increasingly, the bac is viewed as the flagship of a flawed system, a symbol not so much of French excellence but of what is wrong with education here.
Investing selectively, he said, will allow CUNY to build strengths "that emulate some of the great flagship campuses" and serve as a symbol of excellence.
"Our New York flagship store is the most tangible symbol of Tiffany & Company worldwide," said Michael J. Kowalski, the company's president and chief executive officer.
But its flagship property developer, Nakheel, has become the symbol of Dubai's past excesses and present troubles.
"This is a flagship project, a scientific first, but also a symbol that it isn't all hopeless: we don't have to stand by helplessly watching species and habitat being lost".
Trading on the status symbol that is the brand's flagship, Land Rover has masked the truth about the Range Rover Sport: It's a waste of money compared with the LR3.
But he noted unapologetically that "this club was a flagship for Catalonia under dictatorship, and many Catalan symbols survived here".Mr Perez Farguell does not think that Barcelona FC should follow other big European clubs, such as Manchester United and Juventus of Turin, in floating itself on the stockmarket.
It serves as the flagship species (a popular species that has become a symbol for the conservation of a region) for the Ituri Forest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The verbal heritage of the new Times Square, by contrast, is typified by this declaration from the C.E.O. of Toys RR" Us: "A flagship store is important to serve as a tangible symbol of change, to be the ultimate example of what the strategy is when the strategy is fully articulated".
The European arrest warrant is seen as an important symbol of mutual trust between EU countries, a flagship instrument forged in the wake of 9/11 in a spirit of stronger judicial co-operation across EU borders.
