arm-bands

Ideas included stalking legislators for a day; boycotting corporations like Microsoft that advocate for education reform; attempting to close down major roads; dying their hair red; holding night-time vigils with coffins and black arm-bands; picketing companies; and withdrawing funds from banks that "are not paying their fair share of taxes."

When Unions Get Desperate Allysia Finley 2011

A few years ago in the British Museum I was struck by a "treasure trove" display of various pieces, torqs and arm-bands and other fine things, which had been found at various plowed fields or back gardens.

Mammoth Figurine 2007

The famous metal breastplate, the gauntlets and arm-bands and straps that kept the thing together.

31st January '05 2005

On Monday a group of officers broadcast an appeal to their troops not to fight, and several troops put on white arm-bands or defected to the rebel side.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

The women tied blue ribbons in their hair, and the men wound blue sashes around their waists and tied on blue arm-bands.

River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993

The doors were guarded by students and officers with white arm-bands lettered in red, “Militia of the Committee of Public Safety, ” and half a dozen boy-scouts came and went.

Chapter 6. The Committee for Salvation 1922

These soldiers wore neither arm-bands nor bits of ribbon.

Six Red Months in Russia: An Observer's Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship 1918

They wore black arm-bands with orange "P's," and carried canes flying Princeton pennants, the effect completed by socks and peeping handkerchiefs in the same color motifs.

Book 1, Chapter 4. Narcissus Off Duty. 1920

A.band played ragtime and light music while the warriors fed, and all these generals and staff officers, with their decorations and arm-bands and polished buttons and crossed swords, were waited upon by little W.A. A.

Now It Can Be Told Philip Gibbs 1919

They wore black arm-bands with orange "P's," and carried canes flying Princeton pennants, the effect completed by socks and peeping handkerchiefs in the same color motifs.

This Side of Paradise 1918