The coat of arms is two-tone, with the school's official colours, garnet and blue, on the shield.

In 2001, the National Guard unit was designated an official military unit of the Bulgarian army and one of the symbols of state authority, along with the flag, the coat of arms and the national anthem.

Beatty Secondary School adopted David Beatty's coat of arms, " Non Vi Sed Arte " and te colours as the official school colours.

As the country's head of state, in most countries the president is entitled to certain perquisites, and may have a prestigious residence ; often a lavish mansion or palace, sometimes more than one ( e. g. summer and winter residence, country retreat ) – for symbols of office, such as an official uniform, decorations, a presidential seal, coat of arms, flag and other visible accessories ; military honours such as gun salutes, Ruffles and flourishes, and a presidential guard.

The Constitution of Indonesia 1945 Chapter XV specifies the flag, official language, coat of arms, and national anthem of Indonesia.

The County Arms is the official coat of arms of both County Donegal and Donegal County Council.

The coat of arms of Leeuwarden is the official symbol of the municipality of Leeuwarden.

It is also used in the official coat of arms of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

As a coat of arms, the design has official colors ; the physical Great Seal itself, as affixed to paper, is monochrome.

In 2007, Lerum Municipality launched a new logotype to used instead of its official municipal coat of arms which features the head of an oxen and three oak leaves.

Although no longer used, the coat of arms still has official status.

* Ireland – Celtic harp called a cláirseach ( official ), harp on coat of arms etc.

The official explanation of the coat of arms is given as:

Although the Law on the flag and coat of arms of San Marino from 2011 refers only to the " official flag " of the republic, a de facto civil flag, which omits the coat of arms, can sometimes be seen flying.

Some official sources of San Marino suggest that the civil flag is actually the bicolor with the coat of arms of the specific city it is used in, instead of the national one.

The official proportion of the flag is 3: 4, the coat of arms ' width being 3 / 8 of the flag's length.

From 1984 until 1997, the official Burkina Faso coat of arms used a revolutionary central crest featuring a scythe crossed with a Soviet AK-47 assault rifle, along with an open book symbolising the importance of education and the study of revolutionary principles.

The Arms of Canada, also known as the Royal Coat of Arms of Canada or formally as the Arms of Her Majesty The Queen in Right of Canada, is, since 1921, the official coat of arms of the Canadian monarch and thus also of Canada.

The obverse had the Mexican official coat of arms ( an eagle with a snake in its beak, standing on a cactus plant ) and the legends " Estados Unidos Mexicanos " and " Un Peso.

The present coat of arms of Slavonia, used in an official capacity as a part of the coat of arms of Croatia, dates from this period — it was granted to Slavonia by king Vladislaus II Jagiellon on 8 December 1496.

Meltham Mills Band also carry the Brook family coat of arms as their official logo.

The official coat of arms of the municipality of Rotselaar was adopted by the municipal council in 1968 and ratified by Royal Decree in 1973.

A variant of the flag with the national coat of arms in the middle of the white stripe is legally reserved for official use abroad and at sea.

The official military establishment can only threaten to use its nuclear arms ; ;

Herald photographer Stanley Forman received two Pulitzer Prizes consecutively in 1976 and 1977, the first being a dramatic shot of a young child falling in mid-air from her mother's arms on the upper stories of a burning apartment building to the waiting arms of firefighters below, and the latter ( known as " The soiling of Old Glory ") being of Ted Landsmark, an African American city official, being beaten with an American flag during Boston's school busing crisis.

Coats of arms in the Netherlands were not controlled by an official heraldic system like the two in the United Kingdom, nor were they used solely by noble families.

Other debilitating scandals included " Arms to Iraq " – the ongoing inquiry into how government ministers including Alan Clark ( also involved in an unrelated scandal involving the revelation of his affair with the wife and both daughters of a South African judge ) had encouraged businesses to supply arms to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, in breach of the official arms embargo, and how senior ministers had, on legal advice, attempted to withhold evidence of this official connivance when directors of Matrix Churchill were put trial for breaking the embargo.

The official blazon of the arms is:

Three official renditions of the arms were used.

In addition to design of arms, heralds in the Society also provide services such as voice heraldry ( similar to a master of ceremonies ) at tournaments and official functions, and organizing tournament brackets or " lists.

Throughout the 15th century, Venetian land forces were almost always on the offensive and were regarded as the most effective in Italy, largely because of the tradition of all classes carrying arms in defense of the city and official encouragement of general military training.

There was no official support for the Biafran army by another nation throughout the war, although arms were clandestinely acquired.

A royal cypher, appearing on buildings and official seals, or a crown, seen on provincial and national coats of arms, as well as police force and Canadian Forces regimental and maritime badges and rank insignia, is also used to illustrate the monarchy as the locus of authority, the latter without referring to any specific monarch.

Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, beginning on 23 September 1991 the official name of the nation has been the Republic of Armenia ( Armenian: Hayastani Hanrapetut ' yun ).

* 1936 – Radio Prague, now the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic, goes on the air.

On 3 October 1990, the two parts of Germany were reunified as the Federal Republic of Germany, and Berlin again became the official German capital.

* Mass media in Belarus on the official website of the Republic of Belarus

On 30 June 1878, a feast had been arranged in Paris by official decision to honour the French Republic ( the event was commemorated in a painting by Claude Monet ).

His official report back to the Cabinet categorically stated that the Zionists did not want " to set up a Jewish Republic or any other form of state in Palestine or in any part of Palestine ".

: The name " Republic of China " is not listed as Taiwan's " official name " under the " Government " section, due to U. S. acknowledgement of Beijing's One-China policy according to which there is one China and Taiwan is a part of it.

Fraudulent Polish elections held in January 1947 resulted in Poland's official transformation to the People's Republic of Poland.

Costa Rica maintained official relations with the Republic of China ( commonly known as " Taiwan ") instead of the People's Republic of China ( commonly known as " China ") until June 1, 2007, when it opened relations with China.

Even the People's Bank of China has been accorded great latitude due to the difficulty of problems it faces, though in the People's Republic of China the official role of the bank remains that of a national bank rather than a central bank, underlined by the official refusal to " unpeg " the yuan or to revalue it " under pressure ".

Following the abandonment of Legalism in China after the Qin Dynasty, Confucianism became the official state ideology of China, until it was replaced by the " Three Principles of the People " ideology with the establishment of the Republic of China, and then Maoist Communism after the ROC was replaced by the People's Republic of China in Mainland China.

In the modern People's Republic of China, the official ideology is Deng Xiaoping's " market economy socialism ".

* The official Civil Defence site for the Republic of Ireland

The official historical view within the People's Republic of China associates each of these stages with a particular era in Chinese history as well as making some subdivisions.

Dominica previously maintained official relations with the Republic of China ( commonly known as " Taiwan ") instead of the People's Republic of China, but on 23 March 2004, a joint communique was signed in Beijing, paving the way for diplomatic recognition of the People's Republic.

The Dominican Republic maintains official relations with the Republic of China ( commonly known as " Taiwan ") instead of the People's Republic of China.

It is the official system of romanization used by the governments of the People's Republic of China, Singapore and Taiwan.

When the Nazis came to power in 1933 they made the legend an integral part of their official history of the 1920s, portraying the Weimar Republic as the work of the " November criminals " who used the stab in the back to seize power while betraying the nation.