Standing then with the others, peering into the sun, he saw the bright, multicolored legion, their hair flying like dark banners, only the thunder, the roll of drums, the mad cacophony of the hoofs accompanying them.

The campaign relies on the assistance of organizations and institutions that can facilitate the project ’ s diffusion, by placing banners on their own websites or organizing events aimed to raise awareness of the project.

As with the petition, the more people who get involved, the more powerful the message to governments: “ We are no longer willing to accept the fact that hundreds of millions live in chronic hunger .” Groups and individuals can also decide on their own to organize an event about the project, simply by gathering friends, whistles, t-shirts and banners ( whistles and t-shirts can be ordered, and petition sign sheets downloaded, on the endinghunger. org website ) and thereby alert people about chronic hunger by using the yellow whistle.

Weakened by their quarrels, neither empire was prepared to deal with the onslaught of the Arabs, newly unified under the banners of Islam and anxious to expand their faith.

Squatters nationwide made banners and hung them on their squats in protest.

Some merchants attract customers to their websites by advertising through web banners or email.

He writes that the Georgians were – in contrast to the other Christian pilgrims – allowed a free passage into the city, with their banners unfurled.

Modern activists in Mexico frequently make reference to Zapata in their campaigns, his image is commonly seen on banners and many chants invoke his name: Si Zapata viviera con nosotros anduviera, " If Zapata lived, he would walk with us.

Google is, by far, the largest Internet advertising agency — millions of sites place Google's advertising banners and links on their websites, in order to earn money from visitors who click on the ads.

Many carried flags and banners proclaiming " No Popery ", and most wore blue cockades which had become the symbol of their movement.

A number of British towns and cities have whole series of banners decorating their city centres, effectively advertising the town or its special features and attractions.

Google is, by far, the largest Internet advertising agency — millions of sites place Google's advertising banners and links on their websites, in order to earn money from visitors who click on the ads.

All their banners were made from pure silk woven by Huguenots in London.

With the advent of Conservative governments in Britain after the 1979 general election, trades union banners lost their popularity, and many languished in damp cellars or lofts.

Fans have a desire for external involvement – they are motivated to demonstrate their involvement with the area of interest through certain behaviors ( attending conventions, posting online, displaying team banners outside their homes, etc .).

Until 1924, the government continued to pay stipends to Manchu bannermen ; however, many cut their links with their banners and took on Han-style names in shame and to avoid persecution.

The fundamental building block of the banners was the company ( Manchu: 20px niru, Chinese: 佐領 zuǒlǐng ), some of which reflected pre-existing lineage or tribal connections in their membership, while others deliberately overrode such connections in an effort to create a more centralized military force.

Conceding, " there's something undeniably Colonel Blimp-ish in making fun of the locals for their flawed command of your own mother tongue "; Fallows observed a Shanghai museum with " Three Georges Dam " banners advertising a Three Gorges Dam exhibit, and wrote, " it truly is bizarre that so many organizations in China are willing to chisel English translations into stone, paint them on signs, print them on business cards, and expose them permanently to the world without making any effort to check whether they are right.

I remember well the splendour of their banners ...

In mid-October, despite their traditional suspicions of one another, they and Demchugdongrub agreed to draw up confederation documents for the Inner Mongolian banners.

The latter contained the Royal coat of arms of Hanover superimposed over what became the modern Royal Standard of the United Kingdom, although this particular standard's artistic representations of the banners of England, Ireland and Scotland in their respective quadrants was marginally different to the versions used today.

During the First World War, the custom of hanging the banners of foreign princes invested with Britain's highest order of knighthood, the Order of the Garter, in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, came under criticism, as the German members of the Order were fighting against Britain.

After the purchase of Oshawa Group, Sobeys continued to use the existing banners for years, in order to maintain customer loyalty.

A French commentator writing in 1558 described the use of the crowned thistle and the cross of St Andrew on Scottish coins and war banners, and added that there was no Scottish order of knighthood.

There were extensive gardens and a lot of money was spent on them: The house itself consists of sixty rooms, and the sum of, we understand £ 20, 000 in round numbers, has been expended so far upon the building ,-Upon entering the grand hall, through the massive oaken doorway, replete with medieval decorations, the visitor finds that ‘ The Priory ’ has been erected in a style of magnificence not very generally met with – it is floored en mosaique, in walnut and oak ; the peculiar grotesque spirit of the Gothic style is not permitted to run riot through the rich oak carving, while that more beautiful element, tracery enters largely into the interior ornamentation – the oak painted ceiling richly stuccoed and the polished armour shields an banners that hang around with the erect figures in full suits of armour ; the wide staircase in massive oak – the great doorways leading to the drawing – room at one side and to the library at the other – the rich and mellow light that comes through the beautiful stained glass window that forms the upper portion of the Gothic entrance, and through the lancet shaped sashes – all this bespeak a profuse liberality and taste of order.

To the tourist who now visits Pisa the banners and emblemcs of the order of St. Stephen are mere matter of curiosity, but they had a serious significance two hundred years ago to the young Tuscan, who knew that these naval crusaders formed the main defence of his country and commerce against the Turkish, Algerine and Tunisian corsairs.

On the Web, it refers to a lot of advertising done through banners to text ads in as many websites as you can, in order to get enough eyeballs that will hopefully turn into sales.

Some clubs provide groups with cheaper tickets, storage rooms for flags and banners and early access to the stadium before matches in order to prepare displays.

He prepared the death-mask of Henry II, as in 1547 he had taken a similar mask of the face and hands of Francis I., in order that the effigy to be used at the funeral might be prepared from his drawings ; and on each of these occasions he executed the painting to be used in the decorations of the church and the banners for the great ceremony.

Then the king came to the Haye in Touraine and his men had passed the river of Loire, some at the bridge of Orléans and some at Meung, at Saumur, at Blois, and at Tours and whereas they might: they were in number a twenty thousand men of arms beside other ; there were a twenty-six dukes and earls ( Counts ) and more than sixscore banners, and the four sons of the king, who were but young, the duke Charles of Normandy, the lord Louis, that was from thenceforth duke of Anjou, and the lord John duke of Berry, and the lord Philip, who was after duke of Burgoyne ".

In the capitulation terms it is stated that all Danish banners lost in 1500 were to be returned.

They were organized around the year 1729 to fill out the army and make it look larger in battle, armed only with banners. Dahomey female soldiers The women reportedly behaved so courageously they became a permanent corps.

Kites were late to arrive in Europe, although windsock-like banners were known and used by the Romans.

In New York, screenings were picketed by both rabbis and nuns (" Nuns with banners!

Heading to a rendezvous with Vichy French ships under Red Cross banners, the U-boats were attacked by a U. S. Army B-24 Liberator bomber.

The yellow, bordered yellow, and white banners were collectively known as the " Upper Three Banners " () and were under the direct command of the emperor.

Only under special circumstances sanctioned by imperial edict were social movements between banners permitted.

The slogans for American media were typically positioned on the bottom third of television broadcasts, or as banners across the top of newspaper pages.

Driven by public opinion, but against his own wishes, the King had the banners removed but to Alexandra's dismay he had down not only " those vile Prussian banners " but also those of her Hessian relations who were, in her opinion, " simply soldiers or vassals under that brutal German Emperor's orders ".

* " Taoxi Mongolia ": The Alashan Öölüd and Ejine Torghuud banners were separate from the aimags of Outer Mongolia and the chuulghans of Inner Mongolia.

The troops were trained to follow signal standards to advance at the waving of banners and to halt at the sound of bells and drums.

Much of what is known of early Chinese figure painting comes from burial sites, where paintings were preserved on silk banners, lacquered objects, and tomb walls.

Though Zapata's rebel forces were primarily interested in land reform – " tierra y libertad " ( land and liberty ) was the slogan of the uprising – when his peasant troops penetrated Mexico City they carried Guadalupan banners.

Two of the most significant military parades on Red Square were the one in 1941, when the city was besieged by Germans and troops were leaving Red Square straight to the front lines, and the Victory Parade in 1945, when the banners of defeated Nazi armies were thrown at the foot of Lenin's Mausoleum.