In December, Belfast City Council voted to fly the flag only on designated days.
Some Chinese officers want to fly the flag ever farther afield as a demonstration of China's rise.
There's no sign of Belfast City Council overturning its decision to fly the flag just on designated days.
Nearly everyone could hire a helicopter or boat, make their own needs assessments and distributions, and 'fly the flag'.
Unionists support the proposal, which was made by DUP councillor Lee Reynolds in December, when the council voted to fly the flag only on designated days.
"He would always attend open days and really fly the flag for us and for all of the Dales - he loved the Yorkshire Dales, " said Bethell.
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Following Belfast City Council's decision at the start of December to fly the flag only on designated days the DUP has talked of increasing the number of days it flies at Stormont.
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There is even a plan for a naval port in Nanisivik, in the territory of Nunavut, and up to eight Arctic patrol vessels to fly the flag in the increasingly ice-free far north.
But in the interim both the Department of Health, run by Bairbre de Brun, and the Department of Education under Martin McGuinness have said they will comply with the regulations and fly the flag.
They also agreed that the Confederate flag, which civil rights campaigners say is a symbol of repression, should be lowered in South Carolina - the only state still to fly the flag on its statehouse.
That evening, Belfast City Council voted to fly the union flag at the city hall on designated days only rather than every day.
She said that any decision to fly the union flag over the cenotaph outside Belfast City Hall would have to be considered as a separate issue by the council.
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One proposal suggested by the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) last month was to fly the union flag over the cenotaph which stands in the grounds of Belfast City Hall.
No school in the area dares fly the Pakistan flag or sing the national anthem.
"They fly the Union flag at all times, with limited exceptions mainly for the patron saint days for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, " he said.
His mission will make him the first UK national to live and work in space, and to fly the Union flag, on a British-government-funded programme (the UK is Esa's third largest contributor).
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Number 10 Downing St will fly the England flag on days England are playing.
Currently councils with unionist majorities fly the Union flag either all year round or on designated days.
Mahindra approached StrawberryFrog to create a holistic marketing strategy for the entire group of companies which fly the Mahindra flag.
Eighteen people, including 15 PSNI officers, were hurt after loyalists rioted when the council decided to no longer fly the union flag every day.
During the day, a protest took place in the city centre over Belfast council's decision to only fly the union flag on designated days.
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On 3 December an Alliance Party compromise to fly the union flag at Belfast City Hall on designated days, rather than remove it altogether as Sinn Fein and SDLP proposed, was voted through.
Patsy McGlone will do his best to fly the SDLP flag, whilst at the time of writing there's still speculation about a potential unionist unity candidate or the entry of a dissident republican into the race.
Although the document doesn't explicitly state it, Alliance officials confirm that their preferred policy for all council buildings is to fly the union flag on designated days, which, if adopted, could create a stir in those western districts, which don't currently fly flags.
Parente said someone brought the "Don't Tread on Me" flag, also known as the Gadsden flag, to a sunset ceremony on March 21 and the veterans decided to fly it, given the flag's historic military connections.
Such is the Tories' new-found dedication to internal democracy that Mr Hague is willing if that is the party's wish to let the egregious Lord Archer fly the party's flag in the election for London's mayor.
In the case of Carnival Cruise Lines, the owner of the Carnival Triumph that spent days in the Gulf of Mexico disabled after an engine fire, the company is incorporated in Panama, its offices are based in Miami and its ships fly under the Bahamian flag a matrix that is not unusual in the cruise line industry.
Soon the Palestinian flag will fly on the walls, the minarets and the cathedrals of Jerusalem.
"In light of the thing that has happened with the terrorists, we thought we would fly the U.S. flag on the big pole in honor of the dead, " says Maurice Bessinger, a South Carolina restaurateur who had taken down the Stars and Stripes from flagpoles at his restaurants last year in protest of the removal of the Confederate flag at the South Carolina Statehouse.
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