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1. In recent years, however, there have been disturbing signs that the IPN has been diverted from its initial mission and has actually been used as an instrument to promote a Polish nationalist weltanschauung and whitewash terrible stains on Poland‘s escutcheon.
2. Up for the star treatment, up for the Wimbledon fever, up for the covert glances of the lunching elite of Chelsea, for whom he is wearing the current male celebrity uniform of pinstriped tailored jacket, exhausted jeans and a smile like a heavily jewelled escutcheon.
3. I think I may ask my garage to post an escutcheon on the side of my Renault Clio that blatantly copies the arms of some high panjandrum – the Earl of Essex, perhaps, or even the Duke of Norfolk – in the hope that such an affront might bring the high court of chivalry roaring back into action.
4. The photo showed the eagle as it appears on the national escutcheon _ wings spread, head cocked in vigilance, but with what looked like a striped bass in its talons, instead of the flowing ribbon reading, "E Pluribus Unum." Bald eagles, once highly endangered and always strictly protected by federal law, have prospered in the New York region in recent years.