An aegis (; ) is either a large collar or cape worn in ancient times to display the protection provided by a high religious authority, or a bag-like garment containing a protective shield signifying the same.

In order to meet this new job demand, high schools were created and the curriculum focused on practical job skills that would better prepare students for white collar or skilled blue collar work.

Franz Joseph almost always wore a uniform, which had a high collar that almost completely enclosed the neck.

It is clearly the precursor of today's recognizable three-colored uniform with boot covers, white gloves, a high or ruff collar, and either a black beret or a black Comb morion ( silver for high occasions ).

alt = Painted portrait of Kellermann while wearing his French blue general uniform with yellow epaulettes, a red sash, and high collar.

Throughout the 1980s until today, Korean Americans and other East Asian groups continue to attend prestigious universities in high numbers and make up a large percentage of the professional white collar work force including such fields as medicine, law, computer science, finance, and investment banking.

A blue collar worker is typically a high school dropout paid middle class wages with all benefits for assembling cars in Detroit.

Examples of its usage in the 1920s include a 1923 Wall Street Journal article that reads, " Movement from high schools to manual labor in steel plants is unusual, as boys formerly sought white collar work.

During the 1630s, Digby owned a glassworks and manufactured wine bottles which were globular in shape with a high, tapered neck, a collar, and a punt.

Woman wearing a cameo at her throat, on a high lace collar in the Edwardian style.

He designed and patented a high roll collar that formed a " B " over a Windsor-knotted tie, which became known as a " Mr. B. Collar ".

He also is a supporter of high tech solutions as a way to revive the American blue collar work force, and as a way to decrease crime.

Many of these had never graduated high school, but most had formerly held white collar jobs of some sort.

Like the slip collar, the prong collar is placed high on the dog's neck, just behind the ears, at the most sensitive point.

The high recoil of the rifle was very hard on the firer, sometimes breaking the collar bone or dislocating the shoulder.

It is a long, loose gown cut in one piece with the sleeves ; it has a high collar and widely overlaps at the front.

* Qipao — a modern female variation of the Qing Dynasty silk dress, characterized by a high mandarin collar, and side open slits of varying lengths.

The traditional Sami costume is characterized by a dominant color adorned with contrast colored bands, plaits, pewter embroidery, tin art, and often a high collar.

Generalized statistics are often cited to back up their model minority status such as high educational achievement and a high representation in white collar professions ( jobs such as medicine, investment banking, management consulting, finance, engineering, and law ).

It became a community located in the heart of the high tech industry explosion and surrounded by high tech growth and it's highly educated white collar workers.

For a brief period each year, the rays of the sun are warm enough to melt some of the snows piled a mile deep at the base of the headwalls, and then the pinnacles glisten in the daytime at high noon, and billions of gallons of water begin their slow seepage under the glaciers and across the rockstrewn hanging valleys on their long, meandering journey to the sea -- running east past the sky-carving massifs of Gurla Mandhata and Kemchenjunga, then turning south and curling down through the jungles of Assam, past the Khasi Hills, and into Bengal, past Sirinjani and Madaripur, until the hard water of the melting snows mingles with the soft drainage of fields and at length fans out to meld with the teeming salt depths of the Bay of Bengal.

His thoughts for the swanlike neck, the full, high breasts, the slim waist, and the long legs were less than poetic, however.

It is a quiet but impressive room -- 140 feet long, thirty-nine feet wide, twenty-one feet high.

There was also a long wooden spear and a woomera, a spear-throwing device which gives the spear an enormous velocity and high accuracy.

Around that statue in the green park where children play and lovers walk in twos and there is a glowing view of the whole city, in that park are the rows of marble busts of Garibaldi's fallen men, the ones who one day rushed out of the Porta San Pancrazio and, under fire all the way, up the long, straight narrow lane to take, then lose the high ground of the Villa Doria Pamphili.

The Queen Mary has long been a symbol of speed, luxury, and impeccable British service on the high seas.

Then, to conclude on an indeterminate note: `` Nevertheless, if fallout increased substantially, or remained high for a long time, it would become far more important as a potential health hazard in this country and throughout the world ''.

Her legs hung down long and thin as she sat on the high stool.

Used in several sets of high reps once or twice each week it will not be long before your entire upper leg takes on a razor-sharp definition in which the muscles look like wire cables writhing and twisting under the skin!!

Within an easy walk from Capitol Hill where Pennsylvania Avenue comes together with Constitution Avenue, begins a series of great federal buildings, some a block long and all about seven-stories high.

I never dreamed of the logistical difficulties involved until, at long last, both of my boys got squeezed into high school.

Carson McCullers, after a long, painful illness that might have crushed a less-indomitable soul, has come back with an absolute gem of a novel which jumped high on best-seller lists even before official publication.

Robbie and Beryl tried their best to persuade her to come and stay with them, and Anne and I have told her she's more than welcome here, but I think she feels that she might be an imposition, especially as long as our Rosie is still in high school.

The dam was 72 feet ( 22 m ) high and 931 feet ( 284 m ) long.

Soon after the palace was constructed, a Cyclopean massive circuit wall was built, 760 meters long, up to 10 meters high, and ranging from 3. 5 to 6 meters thick.

The Anubis Shrine measures 95 centimeters long, 37 centimeters wide, 54. 3 centimeters high ( approximately 54. 5 inches long, 13. 5 inches wide, 37 inches high ) in the shape of a pylon.

The Biblical Ark of the Covenant is approximately 52. 5 inches long, 31. 5 inches wide, and 31. 5 inches high in the shape of a rectangular chest.

As built, the tunnel was wide, high and long.

** gun howitzers: capable of high or low angle fire with a long barrel.

To spite the city and an unsympathetic neighbor, Froling built a house wide, long and high on the tiny strip of land left to him.

An afterglow may appear above the highest clouds in the hour of deepening twilight, or reflected from the high snowfields in mountain regions long after sunset.

Arbitrage tends to reduce price discrimination by encouraging people to buy an item where the price is low and resell it where the price is high ( as long as the buyers are not prohibited from reselling and the transaction costs of buying, holding and reselling are small relative to the difference in prices in the different markets ).