His forecast of the form of government suitable to the modern world may be seen as prophetic: the largely ceremonial offices of president in some modern parliamentary democracies in Europe and e. g. Israel can be perceived as elected or appointed versions of Hegel's constitutional monarch ; the Russian and French presidents, with their stronger powers, may also be regarded in Hegelian terms as wielding powers suitable to the embodiment of the national will.

Many ancient cultures used adorned daggers in ritual and ceremonial purposes, a trend which continues to the present time in the form of art knives.

He is a ceremonial figurehead under a form of constitutional monarchy and is head of the Japanese Imperial Family with functions as head of state.

Erroneously believing the coven to be a survival of the pre-Christian Witch-Cult discussed in the works of Margaret Murray, he decided to revive the faith, supplementing the coven's rituals with ideas borrowed from Freemasonry, ceremonial magic and the writings of Aleister Crowley to form the Gardnerian tradition of Wicca.

Where it exists, it now often takes the form of constitutional monarchy, in which the monarch retains a unique legal and ceremonial role, but exercises limited or no political power pursuant to a constitution or tradition which allocates governing authority elsewhere.

A ceremonial or celebratory form of aerial salute is the flypast ( known as a " flyover " in the United States ), which often follows major parades such as the annual Trooping the Colour in the United Kingdom or the French défilé du 14 juillet.

Since the independence, the West-Pakistan was a parliamentary republic ( even as of today, the parliamentary system is the official form of government of Pakistan ) with Prime minister as the head of the government and President as head of state, although Presidential office is ceremonial office.

As the sovereign is shared equally with 15 other independent countries in a form of personal union, as well as with the ten other jurisdictions of Canada, and resides predominantly in her oldest realm, the United Kingdom, she, on the advice of her Canadian prime minister only, appoints the governor general to carry out most of her constitutional and ceremonial duties for an unfixed period of time — known as serving at Her Majesty's pleasure — though five years is the normal convention.

The Mayor of London is also referred to as the London Mayor, a form which helps to avoid confusion with the Lord Mayor of the City of London, the ancient and now mainly ceremonial role in the geographically smaller central region of the ancient City of London.

A Western Zhou ceremonial bronze of cooking-vessel form inscribed to record that the King of Zhou gave a fiefdom to Shi You, ordering that he inherit the title as well as the land and people living there

The position of acting mayor is usually of considerably more importance in a mayor-council form of municipal government, where the mayor performs functions of day-to-day leadership, than it is in a council-manager form of government, where the city manager provides day-to-day leadership and the position of mayor is either a largely or entirely ceremonial one.

In 1974, following the Local Government Act 1972, the former area of Ripon borough was merged with Harrogate borough and several rural districts of the West Riding to form an enlarged Harrogate borough in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire.

Today, puppetry continues as a popular form, often within a ceremonial context, and as part of a wide-range of folk forms including dance, storytelling, and masked performance.

During this period archery became a " voluntary " skill, practiced partly in the court in ceremonial form, partly as different kinds of competition.

To harmonize practice and ceremonial shooting ( sharei ) in 1953 the All Nippon Kyudo Federation ( ANKF ) formed an establishing committee from the main schools to take the best elements of each school and form the ANKF style that is used today throughout Japan and in most kyudo federations in the west.

These may be formal or semi-formal-' for some students, going to college is partly a sexual ritual, like the ceremonial dances of the whooping crane ' - or take the form of a more private induction: ' formal and artificial ... the impression that a long-established rite was to be enacted, among Staffordshire figurs and papier-mâché trays, with the compelling, detached formality of nightmare '.

Certain ceremonial duties in the form of honour guards are performed when state visits are made to the Paris museums or the Opera, as well as at the moment of the descent of the Academicians beneath the cupola of the French Academy.

Cowrie are used not only for traditional ornamental and ceremonial purposes ( as other West African communities do ), but also as an inflation proof form of internal savings and as a safe medium to trade across national ( and currency ) boundaries which may divide Dagaaba communities.

The University arms will still be used in its original form for ceremonial purposes only.

Service in a ceremonial form is termed “ grand serjeanty ” whilst that of a more functional or menial nature is termed “ petty sergeanty ”.

In addition to holding land in Lancashire, the Duchy of Lancaster also exerts some powers and ceremonial duties of The Crown in Lancashire and Greater Manchester, Merseyside and the Furness area of Cumbria, which together form the County Palatine of Lancashire.

A classical form called gar is very popular, and is distinguished by ornate, elegant and ceremonial music honoring dignitaries or other respected persons.

This is an anglicised form of the Creek Asi-yahola ( pronounced ); the combination of asi, the ceremonial black drink made from the yaupon holly, and yahola, meaning shout or shouter.

The head of state will, regardless of actual authority, perform ceremonial duties related to the country's armed forces, and will sometimes appear in military uniform for these purposes ; particularly in monarchies where also the monarch's consort and other members of a royal family may also appear in military garb.

The Pickelhaube is still part of the parade / ceremonial uniform of the Life Guards ( Swedish Army ); the Portuguese National Republican Guard ; the Military Academies of Chile, Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador, and the Military College of Bolivia ; the Chilean Army Central Band and Army School Band ; and the Colombian Presidential Guard Battalion and National Police.

The modern Romania Gendarmerie ( Jandarmeria Romana ) maintain a mounted detachment who wear a white plumed Pickelhaube of a model dating from the late 19th century, as part of their ceremonial uniform.

Three members of the Guard of the Rock-this is the number 2 uniform ( informal ceremonial ).

The ceremonial uniform ( 1 ) for festivals, usually worn only by the ceremonial Artillery Company, includes red trousers with a green stripe ( two thinner gold stripes for officers ), a double breasted green jacket ( with red and white lanyard, red cuffs and collars, gold buttons, and red and white dress epaulettes ( for officers the epaulettes are gold, and there is a gold edge to the red cuffs )), a black leather belt, and a black helmet decorated with red and white feathers.

A member of the Guard of the Council-this is the number 1 uniform ( formal ceremonial ) of an officer.

The uniform of the gendarmerie includes a hot-weather ( summer ) standard, which is informal and khaki in colour ; a winter standard which is black with light-blue decoration and stripes, and silver braiding ; and a dress standard for ceremonial duties, which is dark blue with a white cross-strap and lanyard, blue and white dress epaulettes, white collars, a blue kepi with red and blue plume, and a sword.

In public schools, this uniform is standard for boys with a white short sleeve shirt ( long sleeve shirt for ceremonial occasions ) and some schools allow long sleeve shirts with rolled up sleeves for normal schooling.

The uniform shown here was the customary ceremonial dress for Commonwealth Governors General until recently.

Minh arrived in full military ceremonial uniform to supervise the arrest of the Ngô brothers, only to find that they had escaped and humiliated him, having talked to him from a safe house.

Having successfully stormed the palace, Minh had arrived at the presidential residence in full ceremonial military uniform " with a sedan and everything else ".

A Swiss Guardsman in gala ceremonial uniform

He never wore, certainly not in public in Ireland, the official ceremonial Court uniform ( also known as the Windsor uniform ) of a Governor-General in the British Empire.

Regulations specify that recipients of the Medal of Honor are allowed to wear the uniform " at their pleasure " with standard restrictions on political, commercial, or extremist purposes ( other former members of the armed forces may do so only at certain ceremonial occasions ).

This lanyard is a woven piece of cord which is worn on ceremonial uniforms and dates back to the issue of clasp knives in the early 20th century which were secured to the uniform by a length of cord.

Male lord-lieutenants receive an allowance for the ceremonial uniform, worn when receiving members of the royal family and on other formal occasions.

There is no uniform for a female lord-lieutenant, but there is a badge which can be worn on ceremonial occasions.

The Guard marches and drills at Carleton between June and August, and it is possible to watch formations carrying rifles in full ceremonial uniform marching to parking lots 6 and 7 to prepare for their daily parade.

He wore the Surgeon General's ceremonial military uniform ( a naval admiral's dress uniform, complete with medals ) during much of his day-to-day work, reviving an old practice.

In a message released March 31, 2010, the US Navy approved optional wear of a ceremonial cutlass as part of the Chief Petty Officer dress uniform, pending final design approval.

Man wearing a red sash as part of a ceremonial military uniform.