Except in matters of sovereignty, such as flags, Beijing's attitude toward Taiwan's presence in Hong Kong after 1997 is business as usual.
Last week, the Alliance Party quit the Stormont community relations working group arguing that its recommendations on issues such as flags were not strong enough.
He identified these as flags, parades and the past.
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The DUP and Sinn Fein outlined "shared future" plans that included a target to bring down all of Northern Ireland's peace walls by 2023, but they added that other more contentious issues such as flags and parading would need further discussions.
Burned-out buildings and indications of oil fires lined the side of the road, as did people waving white flags as they walked or drove past the U.S. forces.
Then they hoisted their drawings, as Tibetan Prayer Flags are hoisted, as a wish to their future.
"It wasn't very long ago that the average American child saw Africa as colorful flags and exotic names on a map, " Clinton said.
From Senegal to Gabon, from Madagascar to Nigeria, Africans rejoiced in the streets - as foreign flags were lowered and their own were hoisted up.
That's when a U.S. federal appeals court overturned government rules that would have forced electronics manufacturers to build anti-piracy devices--known as Broadcast Flags--into many digital televisions, video recorders and other devices.
As we have seen in the recent reports with Google and Amazon, investors viewed margin compression in previous quarters as red flags, when in fact the increased costs were investments that reaped stellar performance recently.
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Broker supervisors weren't required to review transactions and investigate such red flags as excessive switching.
Pictures at the polls showed some residents of the islands draped in Union flags as they cast their votes.
But they're much more lax on things like driving history and credit checks, two issues known as potential red flags.
Hundreds of pupils cheered and waved flags as Kate entered Havelock Academy after unveiling a plaque to mark the school's official opening.
It is not as if warning flags had not been raised elsewhere.
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Some in Northern Ireland regard disputes about flags as ridiculous and outdated.
The organizers of the Fifth Avenue event ban displays of gay identification, such as banners, flags and pins, which effectively prevents openly gay Irish groups from joining.
Italian MEP Mario Mauro said it should be dealt with on a case by case basis, and that the use of the cross, such as on the flags of Finland and Sweden, had cultural rather than religious connotations.
Crowds swarmed outside the metropolitan cathedral in Buenos Aires, chanting as they waved Argentine flags.
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There was a party atmosphere as artists waved Union flags and drummers played for the crowds.
Well, it's not as if it never happened, as any row of flags and map of the region will show.
Despite the police order banning demonstrations, thousands of Haitians followed his four-wheel-drive - bedecked with Haitian flags - as it weaved through central Port-au-Prince.
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Music blared as revelers brandished American flags across the city.
Mostly those flags symbolise people's British or Irish identity - but on occasions the clash of flags gets more surreal, as in those periods when nationalist areas have displayed Palestinian flags and loyalists have flown Israeli ones.
Just as homebuilders uses fancy signs, flags, elaborate ads and model home decorating to further its brand and appeal to as many buyers as possible, sole proprietors and small business people wear their brands on their foreheads, promoting their web sites, posting in social media, talking with their clients and glad-handing at networking events.
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With a current yield of 4.1%, Six Flags certainly qualifies as a dividend stock.
Crowds of enthusiastic spectators waved U.S. and Vatican flags and screamed as the pontiff rode past.
Face-savers, such as the flying of Palestinian flags over certain sites, perhaps, but not a physical partition.
But honorary consuls are not all based in grand buildings with flags flying outside as one might expect.
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