He nodded towards the pain inflicted by storm Sandy and then moved on to the stump speech that anyone who has attended more than one rally knows so well - the five-point plan, the anecdote about the US flag rescued from the space shuttle Challenger disaster, the dully-delivered homilies about the need for change.
It would be the equivalent of us hoisting the white flag to Liverpool FC that they can 'have the city'.
"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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There were tears in the foyer as hotel staff queued up to take pictures of the press corps - then sent a couple of brave porters on to the bullet train platform to pursue us out of the station waving the flag of St George.
Whenever the energy to keep going on a case would flag, someone would remind us of the miracles that came before.
And our runners-up: Michael Bonner, a flag writer in the US Navy, went as Instagram in hipster-filter , and shared multiple photos on imgur and Instagram, obviously.
For us, that flag is the most powerful symbol of who we are and what we believe in.
Another yellow flag for us is the generous use of various rewards mechanisms, like stock options or other mechanisms, that have a tendency to provide a great deal of upside that may not be reflective of the marginal input of the actual executive.
Please join us at 3pm at Government Center (by the flag pole in front of Boston City Hall) to rally in support of a positive Supreme Court Decision.
Us players are like those soldiers - we wear the national flag when we play.
The third flag is the inability of a large number of US corporations to pass higher material costs on to consumers, even for basic must-buy items.
She has an eye for ephemera at the edge of a vast stage: that tear-gas canisters become more not less potent when they pass their expiry date, that in July last year a Saudi flag appeared in Tahrir Square, that the soldiers took possession of any US dollar bills they came across as evidence of demonstrators being foreign agents.
There is no automatic, international system to flag up individuals who have been deported previously from other countries - unlike in the US, which operates a Watch List system.
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