The great seal of the United States was obviously inspired by the Christian faith.

Indeed, the official Latin title of the kings of France was Rex Francorum, i. e. " king of the Franks " ( until Louis ' grand-father's reign, Philip II whose seal reads Rex Franciae, i. e. " king of France "), and the kings of France were also known by the title " most Christian king " ( Rex Christianissimus ).

The Orpheos Bakkikos crucifixion, hematite seal reflecting Ancient Greece | ancient Greek themes, considered to be from the third or fourth century CE, although a more recent source concludes that it is from the early Christian era.

The city was also the subject of a U. S. Supreme Court case in which a Christian cross was depicted on the city seal, raising issues concerning the Establishment Clause of the U. S. Constitution.

Wauwatosa received some national attention in 1992 when the Wauwatosa Common Council, threatened with a lawsuit, decided to remove a Christian cross from the City's seal adopted in 1957.

In 1643 King Christian IV ( of Denmark and Norway ) granted the young city the right to use a seal with the Norwegian lion and the Royal crown.

The film received a seal from the Motion Picture Code, but the Catholic Legion of Decency gave it a " C " (" Condemned ") rating and called it " grievously offensive to Christian and traditional standards of morality and decency.

In 1994, after seeing Minerva and Medusa on the bronze seal at the west steps of the State Capitol, Pastor Margo Brown called it " an affront to women and Christian faith.

File: Christian den Førstes sekret 1449. png | An early example of the wild man acting as an heraldic supporter appears in the seal of Christian I of Denmark ( 1450 )

This symbol, emblematic of Christian charity, is also found on the state seal.

" Cyril states that the " ointment is the seal of the covenants " of baptism and God ’ s promises to the Christian who is anointed.

In Christian tradition, Eusebius and others have related of Noah's testament, made in writing, and witnessed under his seal, by which he disposed of the whole world.

# The evidence of baptism which marks the Christian people with its dazzling seal ;

According to Paul Christian Rieber, of GC Rieber AS, the difficult ice conditions and low quotas in 2006 resulted in less access to seal pelts, which caused the commodity price to be pushed up.

At the Board of Supervisors, Hahn designed the County Seal, which was modified in 2004 due to the Christian cross on the seal.

* Minerva is featured on the seal of the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma.

MSTies wear the label as a badge of pride, and it gained Best Brains ' seal of approval with the 1996 publication of the Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Amazing Colossal Episode Guide.

While original sealholders do not have to have a degree in meteorology or a related field of study to be upgraded, brand new applicants for the CBM seal must hold at least a Bachelor of Science degree in meteorology or a related field of study from an accredited college or university.

In addition, the motor has the seal of approval of the Underwriters Laboratories, which means it is safe.

A metal case holds an integral primer to initiate the propellant and provides the gas seal to prevent the gases leaking out of the breech, this is called obturation.

He ordained further that some should be called " Abbreviators of the Upper Bar " ( Abbreviatores de Parco Majori ; the name derived from a space in the chancery, surrounded by a grating, in which the officials sat, which is called higher or lower ( major or minor ) according to the proximity of the seats to that of the vice-chancellor ), the others of the Lower Bar ( Abbreviatores de Parco Minori ); that the former should sit upon a slightly raised portion of the chamber, separated from the rest of the hall or chamber by lattice work, assist the Cardinal Vice-Chancellor, subscribe the letters and have the principal part in examining, revising, and expediting the apostolic letters to be issued with the leaden seal ; that the latter, however, should sit among the apostolic writers upon benches in the lower part of the chamber, and their duty was to carry the signed schedules or supplications to the prelates of the upper bar.

Of these two seals, only the Baltic ringed seal suffers when there is not an adequate ice in the Baltic Sea, as it feeds its young only on ice.

The grey seal is adapted to reproducing also with no ice in the sea.

The fact of having been baptized remains a fact and the Catholic Church holds that baptism marks a person with a lasting seal or character that " is an ontological and permanent bond which is not lost by reason of any act or fact of defection.

Many coin grading services will also seal coins in a labeled, air-tight plastic holder, ensuring the coin is protected from deterioration.

If a compression test does give a low figure, and it has been determined it is not due to intake valve closure / camshaft characteristics, then one can differentiate between the cause being valve / seat seal issues and ring seal by squirting engine oil into the spark plug orifice, in a quantity sufficient to disperse across the piston crown and the circumference of the top ring land, and thereby effect the mentioned seal.

If a second compression test is performed shortly thereafter, and the new reading is much higher, it would be the ring seal that is problematic, whereas if the compression test pressure observed remains low, it is a valve sealing ( or more rarely head gasket, or breakthrough piston or rarer still cylinder wall damage ) issue.

* a running engine is coating the cylinder walls with much more oil than an engine that is being cranked at low RPM, which helps the seal.

The term " deed ", also known in this context as a " specialty ", is common to signed written undertakings not supported by consideration: the seal ( even if not a literal wax seal but only a notional one referred to by the execution formula, " signed, sealed and delivered ", or even merely " executed as a deed ") is deemed to be the consideration necessary to support the obligation.

While Don Quixote is unconscious in his bed, his niece, the housekeeper, the parish curate, and the local barber secretly burn most of the books of chivalry, and seal up his library pretending that a magician has carried it off.

Artist and engraver W. Parke Johnson designed this emblem on the basis of the shield that is depicted at the center of the original seal.

This image has been used to acknowledge a previously disputed theory that the cross found in Valdemar Atterdag's coats of arms located in his Danælog seal ( Rettertingsseglet ) from 1356 is indeed the cross from the Danish flag.

Since the seal represents all of the three realms of the union, it is more likely that the cross refers to the union banner that King Eric tried to introduce, a red cross on yellow.

In May 1996, the Supreme Court let stand a Federal Appeals Court ruling ordering the city to remove the cross from the seal.

Dr. Zvi Lederman, co-director of the Tel Aviv University Beth Shemesh dig which discovered the seal discussed below, believes that Beth Shemesh, a Canaanite village, was a cultural meeting point on the border of Israelite, Canaanite and Philistine areas and calls the stories " border sagas ", saying that Samson could cross boundaries, seeking a Philistine wife but also fighting and killing Philistines.

Anna Notaras, daughter of the last Megas Doux of the Byzantine Empire Loukas Notaras, after the fall of Constantinople and her emigration to Italy, made a seal with her coat of arms which included Two Lions holding above the crescent a cross or a sword.

Royal seal of Eric of Pomerania ( 1398 ) depicting: ( Centre ): a lion rampant crowned maintaining an axe ( representing Norway ) within an inescutcheon upon a cross over all ; Quarterly: in Dexter Chief, three lions passant in pale crowned and maintaining a Flag of Denmark | Danebrog upon a semy of hearts ( representing Denmark ); in Sinister Chief: three crowns ( representing Sweden or the Kalmar Union ); in Dexter Base: a lion rampant ( Folkung lion ) ( representing Sweden ); and in Sinister Base: a griffin segreant to sinister ( representing Pomerania ).

The seal shows two skis and in the middle a cross, with a small star on the crosspoint.

The differences between the seal and the present arms are that in the arms the cross is placed on top of the skis and the star is changed from a four-pointed star to a six-pointed star, and that the cross is made of ski-poles.

The priest makes the sign of the cross with the chrism ( also referred to as Myrrh ) on the brow, eyes, nostrils, lips, both ears, breast, hands and feet of the newly illumined, saying with each anointing: " The seal of the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Then thou shalt bind his mouth with a thread, and seal it with thy seal, wherein is the imprint of the cross.

The seal has a Patriarchal cross in the center and Greek inscriptions that say: " God, help Strojimir ( CTPOHMIP )".

The Tagsatzung re-introduced the white cross in the red field for the coat of arms, seal and flag of the Confederacy in 1814.

The federal treaty of 1815 introduced design with the cross suspended in the field without touching the edges, surrounded by the cantonal coats of arms, as the seal of the Confederacy.

The majority of all TB seals since then were issued at Christmas time and included the international symbol against TB, the double barred cross of Lorraine. A 1914 American Christmas seal.

The culmination of the day involves the town's Standard Bearer casting, or flying, the town's standard ( A St Andrew's cross with the town seal placed in the centre ) in the Market Place in memory of Fletcher's " O ' Flodden Field ", consolidating the ceremony's late-medieval / early-modern historical roots.

Fleming later advocated adding a red saltire, or diagonal cross, to the Florida flag, in order to distinguish it from a flag of surrender ( the flag at that time was a white flag with the Florida seal in the center ).

This county seal did in fact include a cross from its creation in 1957 until 2004, when a threatened lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union encouraged the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to remove the cross and make other design changes to the seal.