Sentence examples for hoisting the flag from inspiring English sources

Some younger members of the party thought that Mr Fukuda might at last be hoisting the flag of reform.

Although hoisting the flag can be a form of patriotism, Marshall said, burning it can also be an expression of freedom.

The record was a success ("Well, it didn't lose money," Willner said), and there was interest in hoisting the flag again.

Whether it's TV ads that invoke the ruins and corpses of the World Trade Center to sell the Bush-Cheney campaign or a short-lived effort by MBNA (coincidentally or not, the biggest Bush contributor in 2000) to market a "Spirit of America" MasterCard picturing the ground zero firemen hoisting the flag, power and money are at stake, not just our security.

A Reuters reporter saw the rebels entering the town and hoisting the flag of Azawad, the desert territory bigger than France that they want to make their homeland, before pulling back after meeting resistance.

Headmistress Elisheba Khayeri broke with tradition by skipping the morning assembly and hoisting the flag without any traditional fanfare.

But the men and women who had lobbied to hoist the flag refused the offer.

Mr. Watters had been devastated by the premature ending to Hoist the Flag's career.

Hence, in time of peace it would be an insult to hoist the flag of one friendly nation above that of another.

Then he served on Sir Theophilus Shepstone's staff and himself hoisted the flag at the brief first annexation of the Transvaal (1877 81).

And they both hoist the flag as a way to show they deserve something that relates in one way or another to the founding principles.