He was chief among the gods and his symbol is the bull.

Eastern Orthodoxy, however, continues to give such strong importance to the use and veneration of icons that they are often seen as the chief symbol of Orthodoxy.

Nonetheless his function as commander in chief and his role of the symbol of national unity have been exercised, most notably in the military coup of 23 February 1981, where king Juan Carlos I addressed the country on national television in military uniform, denouncing the coup and urging the maintenance of the law and the continuance of the democratically elected government, thus defusing the uprising.

As patron and protector, later Wadjet often was shown coiled upon the head of Ra, who much later became the Egyptian chief deity ; in order to act as his protection, this image of her became the uraeus symbol used on the royal crowns as well.

On the gold chief is a lion passant or leopard, a royal symbol of England.

: On the white chief is the Cross of Saint George, a symbol of England.

After losing a battle for the NCP election symbol, Sangma later merged his faction with the current Chief Minister of West Bengal and TMC chief Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress, forming the Nationalist Trinamool Congress.

On Pukapuka, according to Marshall Sahlins ( 1967 ), the chief kept a sacred virgin in his retinue as a symbol of his spiritual power.

On all other uniforms, the insignia used is the one that has become universally accepted as the symbol of the chief petty officer: a foul ( entwined in the anchor chain ) gold anchor superimposed with a silver " USN " in the Navy or a silver shield in the Coast Guard.

The cap has long been a symbol of national pride in Australia, and was described by the chief executive of the MCC as the " most famous cricket cap in the world ".

Anzu was a servant of the chief sky god Enlil, guard of the throne in Enlil's sanctuary, ( possibly previously a symbol of Anu ), from whom Anzu stole the Tablet of Destinies, so hoping to determine the fate of all things.

Specifically, she was a chief organizer, lobby head, newspaper editor, suffrage educator, teacher, orator, architect of the banner campaign, rallying force, and symbol of the NWP.

The Lion of Judah by itself was at the center of the Ethiopian tri-color flag during the monarchy, and now serves as the chief symbol of the Ethiopian monarchist movement.

In sinister chief, on a yellow field, weapons ( a sword, a sabre and three lances ) and two national flags are tied by a branch of laurel, as a symbol of triumph in war.

A chief symbol of the Ottoman Caliphate was the " Great Banner of the Caliphs ," a large green banner embroidered with texts from the Qur ' an and with the name of Allah emblazoned on it 28, 000 times in golden letters.

Its symbol is the bicycle, and chief is M. D.

Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel passed over Disraeli when putting together his government in 1841 and Disraeli, hurt, gradually became a sharp critic of Peel's government, often deliberately adopting positions contrary to those of his nominal chief.

Sir William Phips, governor of the newly chartered Province of Massachusetts Bay, appointed his lieutenant governor, William Stoughton, as head of a special witchcraft tribunal and then as chief justice of the colonial courts, where he presided over the witch trials.

Its first meeting was held at York in 1831 ; and Brewster, along with Babbage and Sir John F. W. Herschel, had the chief part in shaping its constitution.

Because the 16th Earl held land from the Crown by knight service, after his father's death on 3 August 1562, Oxford became a royal ward of the 29-year-old Queen, and was placed in the household of Sir William Cecil, her Secretary of State and chief advisor.

* 1704 1 August ( NS ): ( 21 July ( OS )) – During the War of the Spanish Succession, and when returning from a failed expedition to Barcelona, an Anglo-Dutch fleet, under the command of Sir George Rooke, chief commander of the Alliance Navy, began a new siege ( the eleventh siege of the town ).

After the merger, with all operations under the management of Sir George Simpson ( 1826 – 1860 ), the company had a corps of commissioned officers, 25 chief factors and 28 chief traders, who shared in the profits of the company during the monopoly years.

Jellicoe served as chief of staff to Vice Admiral Sir E. H. Seymour during the Seymour expedition to relieve the legations at Peking in June 1900.

Sir William Anglin Scarlett, Lord Abinger's younger brother, was chief justice of Jamaica.

In response, former Channel 4 chief executive Sir Jeremy Isaacs describing Loach's intervention as an act of censorship, he said: " They must not allow someone who has no real position, no rock to stand on, to interfere with their programming.

Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, MLP leader and chief minister in the colonial government, became the first prime minister after independence, on 12 March 1968.

Sir John Call, member of Parliament and the Royal Society, and former chief engineer of the East India Company, stated the advantages of Norfolk Island in a proposal for colonization he put to the Home Office in August 1784: “ This Island has an Advantage not common to New Caledonia, New Holland and New Zealand by not being inhabited, so that no Injury can be done by possessing it to the rest of Mankind … there seems to be nothing wanting but Inhabitants and Cultivation to make it a delicious Residence.

All of the twenty four members of the Sierra Leonean delegation were prominent and well-respected politicians including Sir Milton's younger brother lawyer Sir Albert Margai, the outspoken trade unionist Siaka Stevens, SLPP strongman Lamina Sankoh, outspoken Creole activist Isaac Wallace-Johnson, Paramount chief Ella Koblo Gulama, educationist Mohamed Sanusi Mustapha, Dr John Karefa-Smart, professor Kande Bureh, lawyer Sir Banja Tejan-Sie, former Freetown's Mayor Eustace Henry Taylor Cummings educationist Amadu Wurie, and Creole diplomat Hector Reginald Sylvanus Boltman.

* Sir Rodney the Chicken-Hearted: Usually just called " Rodney ", he is the king's chief knight and head of the hapless royal army.

In response to their fear, she chose as her chief minister Sir William Cecil, a Protestant, and former secretary to Lord Protector the Duke of Somerset and then to the Duke of Northumberland.

However, her chief minister Sir Robert Cecil had corresponded with the Protestant King James VI of Scotland, son of Mary, Queen of Scots, and James's succession to the English throne was unopposed.

Sir Robert Peel, Gladstone's chief, was outraged because this would upset the delicate political issue of Catholic Emancipation and anger the Nonconformists.

* June 15 – Sir Francis Windebank is made chief Secretary of State in England.

It is usually attributed to renowned orientalist and author Sir Richard Francis Burton, but the chief work was done by the pioneering Indian archaeologist, Bhagwanlal Indraji, under the guidance of Burton's friend, the Indian civil servant Forster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot, and with the assistance of a student, Shivaram Parshuram Bhide.

His younger son, Sir Robert Cecil ( later created Baron Cecil, Viscount Cranborne and finally Earl of Salisbury ), inherited his political mantle, taking on the role of chief minister and arranging a smooth transfer of power to the Stuart administration under King James I.

The chief conspirator was Sir Anthony Babington ( 1561 – 1586 ), a young Catholic nobleman.

Callaghan was soon appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport in 1947 where, advised by the young chief constable of Hertfordshire Sir Arthur Young, his term saw important improvements in road safety, notably the introduction of zebra crossings, and an extension in the use of cat's eyes.

The architectural historian Sir John Summerson asserts that the palace shows " the essence of Wolsey — the plain English churchman who nevertheless made his sovereign the arbiter of Europe and who built and furnished Hampton Court to show foreign embassies that Henry VIII's chief minister knew how to live as graciously as any cardinal in Rome.

Diana and Oswald wed in secret on 6 October 1936 in Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels ' drawing room.

In 1931, he was promoted to Oberstleutnant ( Lieutenant-Colonel ) and became chief of staff to the Inspectorate of Motorized Troops under Generalleutnant ( Lieutenant-General ) Oswald Lutz.

In the late 1920s and early 1930s German tank theory was pioneered by two figures: General Oswald Lutz and his chief of staff, Lieutenant Colonel Heinz Guderian.

In 2003, Robert Blakey, staff director and chief counsel for the Committee, issued a statement on the Central Intelligence Agency: ... I no longer believe that we were able to conduct an appropriate investigation of the Intelligence Agency and its relationship to Oswald .... We now know that the Agency withheld from the Warren Commission the CIA-Mafia plots to kill Castro.

Richard Glücks was appointed the head of Amt D and answered to Oswald Pohl the chief of the SS-WVHA.

From November 1942 until May 1944, Baer was adjutant of " SS-Obergruppenführer " Oswald Pohl, then chief of the Wirtschaftsverwaltungshauptamt ( SS office of economic policy ).

During her stay there, she went to see Oswald Pohl, the chief of the SS Economy and Administration Head Office, in Berlin-Lichterfelde, and convinced him to transfer her back to Ravensbrück.

Tellingly, the chief negotiator on the British side was Richard Oswald, the principal owner of Bunce Island, and Laurens ' friend for 30 years.