Sentence examples for v salute from inspiring English sources

If so, this would explain why the congenitally blind displayed more shame in defeat than did people who became blind later in life.Culture has a lot to do with displays of victory, whether it is the two-fingered "V" salute or footballers removing their clothing.

Bogdan Borusiewicz, the best known of the group of at least 20 that returned to Gdansk, was overwhelmed when the parishioners sang the national anthem, "Poland is Not Lost". Holding his hand aloft in Solidarity's now-illegal "V" salute, he pressed his face into his arm so the cameras would not record the tears.

Those helicopters have become a symbol of presidential power, etched in the public mind, perhaps most indelibly on the day President Richard M. Nixon resigned in 1974 and flashed a double-V salute before retreating aboard one of the choppers to begin his long exile.

Arguably the most famous two fingers of all: Winston Churchill gives his V for victory salute in September 1954.

Ms. Bolocco has since tried hard to imitate Eva Perón, the wife of Juan Domingo Perón, the Justicialist Party's founder, by flashing the V for victory salute just as Ms. Perón did when her husband was a political prisoner and, later, president.

He entered Singapore's High Court building for his first hearing holding up two fingers in a "V for victory" salute.

That jerky out-of-syncness bespeaking the man's discomfort in, and desperate efforts to escape from, his own skin, a lifelong dissonance culminating in a Brobdingnagian orgy of incongruousness as he thrust his arms into the air in a V for Victory salute at his moment of ultimate disgrace.

Guengueng seems unruffled by the fact that Habré greeted the announcement of the adjournment by punching the air and giving the V-for-Victory salute to a group of cheering supporters.

Following the adjournment, Habré rose and gave a clenched-fist salute and V for victory sign to his supporters, who shouted "Allahu Akbar".

We salute President Vest and his colleagues at MIT for having the courage to launch this forward-looking initiative.

Processions of IRA and Sinn Fein supporters drove through west Belfast and the west bank of Derry in cars and vans, waving Irish tricolours, giving clenched fist salutes and V-for-victory signs.