51.   The field where national flags will be raised as delegations arrive is still a bare mound of earth with a steam shovel resting on it.

52.   The Israeli children, some wrapped in the national flag, watch the priest closely.

53.   The new national flag, its design painstakingly negotiated, flies outside the United Nations in New York but is hard to find in Bosnia.

54.   The national flag has been changed.

55.   The third and final national flag added a red bar to the flag that contained the Southern Cross.

56.   They were flags of the Democratic Progressive Party, not the national flag.

57.   Thousands of fans, many wearing green and yellow for the national flag, gathered on the sand to watch the game, undeterred by the winter rain.

58.   Today, national flags represent the people, the history and the strength of a country.

59.   Today the trends toward globalization in economics and regionalization in markets have somewhat diminished the importance of national flags.

60.   Up beyond the altar, the ecclesiastical and national flags hung motionlessly side by side, church and state aligned.