Examples include a leopard's spotted coat, the battledress of a modern soldier and a leaf-mimic butterfly.

Footprints of its feet have been found showing a covering of hair which indicates it had a coat similar to a modern wombat.

For example, the sentence " The coat is red " has no observer, the sentence " We see the coat as red " ( where " we " indicates observers ) appears more specific in context as regards light waves and colour as determined by modern science, that is, colour results from a reaction in the human brain.

The focus of modern heraldry is the armorial achievement, or the coat of arms, the central element of which is the escutcheon or shield.

The menorah has been a symbol of Judaism since ancient times and is the emblem on the coat of arms of the modern state of Israel.

The harsh, wiry coat in modern dogs is only seen in self-coloured various shades of gray ( blue-gray is preferred ).

In an attempt to appeal to a modern audience, the university chose in 2004 to simplify its logo from the original coat of arms to the current " us " logo.

The modern use of the leopard as an emblem for sport or a coat of arms is much more restricted to Africa, though numerous products worldwide have used the name.

These traditional lions passant guardant appear in the coat of arms of England and many of its former colonies ; more modern naturalistic ( leopard-like ) depictions appear on the coat of arms of several African nations including Benin, Malawi, Somalia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Gabon, which uses a black panther.

The modern coat of arms circa 1992 is the same, but the shield can be adorned with golden oak leaves tied with a ribbon with colours of the Russian national flag.

The modern logo is fashioned on the coat of arms.

The coat of arms was created in 1972 at the time the modern municipalities of Sweden were created.

In line with many other municipalities adopting modern fashions, the municipal government decided in 2002 to introduce a new house style with a modern logo replacing the coat of arms in communication and on municipal documents.

Today, the mouse deer is part of modern Malacca's coat of arms.

The arms of the three original leagues are were combined into the modern cantonal coat of arms in 1933.

These paintings depicted a dog larger than the modern breed, reportedly weighing as much as, but showing modern traits such as the heavy coat, ears and a tail curled over the back.

The coat of arms is from modern times.

The coat of arms is from modern times.

The coat of arms is modern, having been granted on 19 December 1986.

The coat of arms is quite modern, having been adopted in 1949 after a local competition.

The American firearms and ammunition manufacturers through diligent research and technical development have replaced the muzzle loader and slow-firing single-shot arms with modern fast firing auto-loaders, extremely accurate bolt, lever, and slide action firearms.

For the first time, armored cars or limousines were put into service for safer transport, with modern versions virtually invulnerable to small arms fire, smaller bombs and mines.

Bulgaria has a military stockpile of about 5, 000, 000 small arms, models ranging from World War II-era MP 40 machine pistols to modern Steyr AUG, AK-74, HK MP5, HK416 and AR-M2F assault rifles.

The first was the quality of its arms, as the Italian and British colonial authorities could sabotage the transportation of 30, 000-60, 000 modern Mosin – Nagant rifles and Berdan rifles from Russia into landlocked Ethiopia.

The brass cartridge also opened the way for modern repeating arms, by uniting the bullet, gunpowder and primer into one assembly that could be fed reliably into the breech by a mechanical action in the firearm.

Heraldry flourishes in the modern world ; institutions, companies, and private persons continue using coats of arms as their pictorial identification.

H. habilis was short and had disproportionately long arms compared to modern humans ; however, it had a less protruding face than the australopithecines from which it is thought to have descended.

As the oldest branch of combat arms, they are still the backbone of modern armies.

Before the outbreak of the Korean War, Joseph Stalin equipped the KPA with modern medium tanks, trucks, artillery, and small arms.

Strauss concludes his 1958 Thoughts on Machiavelli by proposing that this promotion of progress leads directly to the modern arms race.

Strauss argued that the unavoidable nature of such arms races, which have existed before modern times and led to the collapse of peaceful civilizations, provides us with both an explanation of what is most truly dangerous in Machiavelli's innovations, but also the way in which the aims of his apparently immoral innovation can be understood.

Hannibal did not cross the Ebro River ( Saguntum was near modern Valencia – well south of the river ) in arms, and the Saguntines provoked his attack by attacking their neighboring tribes who were Carthaginian protectorates and by massacring pro-Punic factions in their city.

In recent years Syria has relied on Russian arms purchases to obtain modern weapons.

The modern structures face the Thames and include an entry way that displays More's arms, heraldic beasts, and a Latin maxim.

Although the use of offset crankpins, counterweights, and flying arms has reduced the problem to a minor second-order vibration in modern designs, all V6s can benefit from the addition of auxiliary balance shafts to make them completely smooth.

However, more modern designs often use a 3-throw crankshaft with what are termed flying arms between the crankpins, which not only give the required 120 ° separation but also can be used for balancing purposes.

By 1972, the clean and press was discontinued because athletes started to push with legs and bend backwards instead of strictly pressing the weight overhead, and this left the sole elements of what is today's modern Olympic weightlifting programme – the snatch and the clean and jerk. The snatch entails pulling with a wide grip the barbell overhead without pressing out with the arms. It is a very precise lift that can be nullified by a lack of balance of the athlete. The clean and jerk is more forgiving using a narrower grip pull the bar to the shoulders and then using the strength of the legs push until arms reach full extension without a press out.

The plan worked and this tactic helped write the doctrine of the supremacy of the defensive position, using modern small arms and trench fortifications.

At this period the thirty-year old Helion was ranked `` as one of the mature leaders of the modern movement '', according to Herbert Read, `` and in the direct line of descent from Cezanne, Seurat, Gris and Leger ''.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

On matters of race he was similarly inflexible: `` Most of the modern Latin races seem to have inherited the rigidity of the Roman mind ''.

It was logical that he would come up with the figure of the modern jazz musician.

Perhaps there is more truth than we are wont to admit in the conviction of that ornament of Tarheelia, Robert Ruark's grandfather, who was persuaded that the great curse of the modern world is `` all this gallivantin' ''.

Wilson stressed the fact that clear as this was, they must have a better church, a more business-like conduct of the church organization, and an effort to get this religious center out of its rut of wild worship into a modern church organization.

Never rebuilt, the bridge was strengtened in 1938 by two extra piers, a concrete floor, and a walk-way along the upper side in order to care for modern traffic.

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 old Morse system was replaced locally by the Simplex modern automatic method in 1929, when Ellamae Heckman ( Wilcox ) was manager of the Western Union office.

The latter now furnishes the area with electricity distributed from a modern sub-station at Manchester Depot which was put into operation February 19, 1930 and was improved in January 1942 by the installation of larger transformers.

New, indeed, is Luther's perception, but not modern, as anyone knows who has ever tried to make intelligible to modern students what Luther was getting at.

In their book, American Skyline, Christopher Tunnard and Henry Hope Reed argue that Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was what made the modern suburb a possibility -- a fine ironical argument, when you consider how suburbanites tend to vote.

Just as Hart Crane had little influence on anyone except very reactionary writers -- like Allen Tate, for instance, to whom Valery was the last word in modern poetry and the felicities of an Apollinaire, let alone a Paul Eluard were nonsense -- so Dylan Thomas's influence has been slight indeed.

The John Harvey arrived in Bari, a port on the Adriatic, on November 28th, making for Porto Nuovo, which, as the name indicates, was the ancient city's new and modern harbor.

That the dream was a reality on the infinite progressions of universal, gradient frequencies, across which the modern professor and the priest of ancient Nippur met??

Left alone while her husband was miles away in the city, the modern wife assumed more and more duties normally reserved for the male.

It was a fairly modern motel with quite a bit of electrical display in front.

It was still a very big world, despite all the modern cant to the contrary.

The house was modern, large, on five acres.

Airy and bright, the apartment was furnished with good modern furniture, rugs, and draperies.

There was a garage and a modern barn in the rear, all of it standing between two large flat fields planted in early potatoes.

Its power unit, however, was derived from the reactor of the more modern American nuclear submarine Skipjack.