Recent Examples on the WebBlinken's predecessor Mike Pompeo, an evangelical Christian, ordered that only the U.S. flag fly from embassy flagpoles.—CBS News, 23 Mar. 2024 Also this week, a Florida man who used a flagpole to attack officers who were trying to defend the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced to four years in prison.—Alanna Durkin Richer The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 19 Aug. 2023 But other items that were stolen were not nearly of the same caliber: a nondescript Chinese metal vase; a fairly ordinary bronze eagle from atop a flagpole; and five minor sketches by Degas.—Tom Mashberg, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024 More:Clinton Township fire, explosion site still smolders as debris found 2 miles away
Krebs replaced the flag again, and then last Saturday, the suspects in the white Jeep returned with scissors to cut the flag from the flagpole.—Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 12 Mar. 2024 Even today, on most urban streets, the only bald eagles typically found are metal castings at the end of flagpoles.—Jim Riccioli, Journal Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2024 The assailants also punched Lhamo, pulled her hair, took and threw her phone into a river, and tried to whack her with flagpoles.—Jimmy Quinn, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023 The complex features a new scoreboard, logos, backstop, outfield grass, dirt infield, flagpole, sound system and more.—Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2024 The show based on the 1983 film takes the Ahmanson Theatre stage with all the same iconic antics, like licking a frozen flagpole.—Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023
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