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1. It is unfortunate that Stephen Byers has chosen to hoist the flag of political opportunism over the issue.
2. You have to hoist the flag up a pole, handling it ever so gingerly, and then, of course, you need a breeze.
3. Fatima Sughra recalls the ideals she felt at 15, scaling the roof of the colonial administration headquarters in her hometown Lahore to pull down the Union Jack and hoist the flag of Jinnah‘s Pakistan Muslim League.
4. Flag waving:Barzani‘s Decree No. 60 stated: "All government sites that used to raise the Baathist flag must lower it and hoist the flag of Kurdistan in its place." The Kurdish red, white and green banner with a sun motif at the center is ubiquitous in the region, which is home to about 5 million of Iraq‘s 26 million people.
5. "According to the Kurdistan Administration of Iraq‘s decree number 60, we decide to hoist the flag of Iraqi Kurdistan officially on all offices and government institutions in the Kurdistan region," Barzani‘s office said last Friday. ‘Baathist flag‘ Iraq‘s sizeable Kurdish minority associates Iraq‘s red, white and black banner with ousted leader Saddam Hussein‘s hated Baath party, although it has been retained as the national flag by the post–Saddam government in Baghdad.