Their video stated that American Christians had to decide how to honour both the flag and the cross.

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They then followed his oak coffin, which was marked with a cross and draped with a flag, through narrow streets to the cemetery.

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The banner has been created by the Royal College of Arms after special permission was given by the Court of Heralds to create a unique Guernsey insignia, involving symbols of the Priory of England and the Islands and the Norman cross seen on the Guernsey flag.

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The flag incorporates St George's cross on a green background, and a shield with the Robin Hood emblem in its centre.

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This abolition of national flag carriers will, in turn, make it easier to complete cross-border European airline mergers.

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Ian Moore got on the end of Little's cross and fired home, only to be denied by the linesman's flag.

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Only a linesman's flag denied the visitors the opener, Danny Webber flicking Nadir Belhadj's cross in at the near post from an offside position.

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Toivonen was picked out from a right-hand cross to head home from six yards only to see his goal controversially disallowed by an offside flag.

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By definition symbols convey meaning, and people therefore tamper with them at their peril (witness the mixed emotions of race and tradition when the Confederate flag is flown in the South, or the horror when some white supremacist burns a cross or daubs a swastika).

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Mr McNeill, 43, who also planted a flag for Cancer Research UK in memory of his father-in-law said there was not one cross word during their 28-day trek across the ice, before being picked up by an aircraft and whisked back to base camp.

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