There were color guards, banners, bagpipers and doves.
Color guards dip their banners to the flag.
They splashed blood on the Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility — a new windowless, half-billion-dollar plant encircled by enormous guard towers — and hung banners outside its walls.
You're always running the risk of allowing things to escalate into the realms of the absurd when you stick up hubristic CHOSEN ONE banners and guard them with a Stalinist fervour, brooking no in-house dissent.
With Everton quiet on arrangements and United insisting there are no special plans for Ferguson, expect the works: chanting, guards of honour, giant banners and Bill Kenwright balling his eyes out.
Five weeks after his appointment by Pope John Paul II, the tall, commanding 68-year-old churchman, a theological conservative and canon lawyer who has been the bishop of Bridgeport, Conn., for 12 years, entered the packed cathedral in a choral procession of ecclesiastical banners, honor guards and church officials.
And at the height of election season in Mexico, contraband means mostly political campaign ads: Guards confiscated thousands of banners and posters, from every major political party in Mexico, in just a few weeks.
The cathedral's great central doors then swung open and the archbishop-elect entered, taking his place at the rear of a procession of banners, student honor guards, archbishops and bishops from across the country and dozens of priests and other officials of the archdiocese.
Afterward, his classmates whooped behind the gently flapping purple and gold banners of a color guard.
Yet... "They don't hang Sweet 16 banners in Pauley Pavilion," guard Kyle Anderson said.
Like Americans, Britons have become used to the sentinels of loss — honor guards over military coffins bearing furled banners.
