Following the rapid change from a loose formation to a rigid line of battle both fleets raised their colours ; each British ship added additional Union Flags in its rigging in case its main flag was shot away.

The former South African prime minister and architect of apartheid, Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, had a dream to change the then-current flag of South Africa, remove the three small flags in its center ( he objected especially to the British Union Flag being there ) and replace them with a leaping springbok antelope over a wreath of six proteas.

In the German Peasants ' War of the 16th century, the rainbow flag together with the peasants ' boot (" Bundschuh ") was used as the sign of a new era, of hope and of social change.

The famous flag tearing incident called " Hotel Yamato incident " happened in 1945 on top of Hotel Majapahit in downtown Surabaya, where young Indonesian revolutionaries tore the blue part of the Dutch flag flown in the hotel to change it to the Indonesian flag in the lead up to the Battle of Surabaya.

It is suggested that the change was to more clearly distinguish the flag of Belgium from the flag of the Netherlands, which also has three horizontal stripes, especially important during naval battles.

Banns has the same origin meaning an official proclamation, and abandon means to change loyalty or disobey orders, semantically " to leave the cloth or flag ".

In 1964, Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson appointed a committee to resolve the issue, sparking a serious debate about a flag change.

In 2004, Chad asked the United Nations to examine the issue, but then-president of Romania Ion Iliescu announced no change would occur to the flag.

When the band found it necessary to change their name from Panic in 1977, it was Pettibon who suggested the new name Black Flag and designed their iconic logo: four vertical black rectangles comprising a stylized rippling black flag.

In 1955, a statute on the flag was adopted which resulted in a change of the hammer's handle length and the shape of the sickle.

In implementing a workaround it is important to flag the change so as to later implement a proper solution.

The change was prompted by confusion at international sporting events over competitors from Guernsey and England using the same flag.

" However, the New Zealand flag remains the symbol of our nation, and there is no intention to change this, nor to diminish the status of our national flag.

In January 2008, however, Iraq's parliament passed a law to change the flag by leaving in the phrase, but changing the calligraphy of the words Allahu Akbar, which had been a copy of Saddam's handwriting, to a Kufic script.

Thus, a wide bipartisan support is needed to change the official flag of the Republic of China ( Taiwan ).

Some supporters of Taiwan Independence seek the flag change as part of a larger change to replace the Constitution of Republic of China that was brought to Taiwan by the Kuomintang at the end of the civil war on the Mainland in 1949.

This flag has remained almost unchanged since 1875, with only a slight change of the style of the lion when the flag was officially adopted by the government in 1975, although this was a mistake, as it had already been officially gazetted by the colonial government in 1876.

The flag was probably intended as communication of the pirates ' identity, which may have given target ships an opportunity to change their mind and surrender without a fight.

If passed, the Bill would have entrenched the Act that governs the flag and added New Zealand's anthems, requiring a majority of 65 percent of votes in Parliament before any future legislation could change the flag.

Though his election was interpreted by many Southerners as the forerunner of a dangerous shift in the federal balance in favor of the Union, Lincoln himself proposed no such change in the rights the Constitution gave the states.

But I suspect that the old Roman was referring to change made under military occupation -- the sort of change which Tacitus was talking about when he said, `` They make a desert, and call it peace '' ( `` Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant ''.

the pope was playing a dangerous game, with so many balls in the air at once that a misstep would bring them all about his ears, and his only hope was to temporize so that he could take advantage of every change in the delicate balance of European affairs.

Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.

The plane was sent back to the United States, for a change, but Castro kept the crazy gunman, who will prove a suitable recruit to the revolution.

This is a radical change in attitude from the conditions which prevailed several years ago, when a series of bombings was directed against Negroes who were moving into previously all-white neighborhoods of Dallas.

Brittany, that stone-gray mystery through which he traveled for thirty days, sleeping in the barns of farmers or alongside roads, had worked some subtle change in him, he knew, and it was in Brittany that he had met Pierre.

Argiento had been trained so rigorously by the Jesuits that Michelangelo was unable to change his habits: up before dawn to scrub the floors, whether they were dirty or not ; ;

From proud pool-owners to perpetual hosts and handymen was a short step -- no more than the change from city clothes to trunks.

The ratio of the measured antenna temperature change during a drift scan across the moon to the average brightness temperature of the moon over the antenna beam ( assuming that the brightness temperature of the sky is negligible ) was found, by graphical integration of the antenna directivity diagram, to be 0.85.

With due consideration for the limits of precision in assessing, expected rate of change in ossification of girls age 2 years, and the known variations in rate of ossification of these children as described in our preceding paper in the Supplement, each arrow with a `` shaft length '' of four months or less was selected as indicating `` same schedule '' at Onset and Completion, for this particular epiphysis.

Chlorothiazide was omitted for a 2-week period, but there was no change in the muscle weakness.

In contrast to the nuclear changes described above, another change in muscle nuclei was seen, usually occurring in fibers that were somewhat smaller than normal but that showed distinct cross-striations and myofibrillae.

Five subjects ( 12% ) did not change until they had been told that some people have something happen to their arm, what that something was, and also were given a demonstration.

Four subjects ( 10% ) did not change even then but needed the additional information that an arm-elevation under these circumstances was a perfectly normal reflex reaction which some people showed while others did not.

The latest major change in this program was introduced by the National Defense Education Act of 1958, Title 8, of which amended the George-Barden Act.

The change was not quite so dramatic as it sounds because in fact common norms continued to be invoked by municipal courts and were only gradually changed by legislation, and then largely in marginal situations.

One purpose of the change was to attain sympathetic enforcement of rights insured by the Civil War amendments against state interference.

The modern student, who knows what was to come next, is likely to place first the factors of change which are visible in the eighth century.

The two equations for the EMF are, firstly, the work per unit charge done against the Lorentz force in moving a test charge around the ( possibly moving ) surface boundary ∂ Σ and, secondly, as the change of magnetic flux through the open surface Σ.

The film accurately portrays the narrative within the novel, apart from two factors: firstly, the film's plot is more complicated than the novel, consisting of more flashbacks and a change in the film's character focus ; the second major difference involves the characters, Rex Hofman and Raymond Lemorne, who spend more time together following their meeting.

Displacement of force vectors through change of coordinates from Conical coordinates X to Cylindrical coordinates X ′ and Rectangular coordinates X ″, by Parallel transport firstly of torques, in coincident parallel planes along coordinate system overlap connection line ( zx ) and consequently to force f < sub > y </ sub > along coordinate system overlap connection line ( yx ) respectively.

The philosophical argument runs, briefly, as follows: firstly, from what is known about evolution, any biological change in a species arises by a random genetic change in a single individual which spreads throughout its breeding group.

Let's integrate firstly, and then we can see the way in which mentalities change.

It would have involved three major measures: firstly, the change of the form of primogeniture used from male-preference to gender-neutral ( absolute ) primogeniture — that is, that the eldest child would succeed regardless of gender ; secondly, that the Acts of Union 1707, both in Scotland and in England, as well as other relevant legislation, be altered to remove the clauses forbidding the monarch or heirs from marrying any Catholic ; and, thirdly, the revocation of the Royal Marriages Act 1772, which requires descendants of King George II ( other than descendants of princesses who married foreigners ) to obtain the Sovereign's consent to marry.

This happens in two ways: firstly, the attenuation of the line can vary with frequency which results in a change to the shape of a pulse transmitted down the line.

) Turning the aircraft ( change of heading ) requires the aircraft firstly to roll to achieve an angle of bank ; when the desired change of heading has been accomplished the aircraft must again be rolled in the opposite direction to reduce the angle of bank to zero.

The 1970s also saw the ABOA and AISF launch two more successful campaigns: firstly, for the implementation of four weeks ' annual leave ; and, secondly, the establishment of minimum entitlements for employees who lose their jobs through retrenchment due to organisational or technological change.

However, when Mattel demanded racial diversity in the toy line, the Four Horsemen looked to change skin colours and, after firstly considering Stratos but deciding that Stratos ' overall design did not go well with the racial change, Zodak was chosen.