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Sentence Examples
| So, fascism essentially meant the Mussolini movement's adoption of the fasces as the symbol of what became known as the Fascist movement. |
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| The fasces of Italian fascism are nicked from the fasces carried by the lictors, symbolising the unity of the Roman people. |
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| Independence is represented by the laurel-crowned female figure, who holds the consular fasces in one hand and a torch in the other. |
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| The fasces of ancient Roman times were of course the bundles of rods carried by the lictors to symbolize the great strength of the organized Roman people. |
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| Both depict Liberty figures standing with their fasces and bonnets supported on staffs before key locations in Rome, as if claiming them as their own. |
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| This was one of the most important towns in western Etruria which gave the city of Rome its signs of power, including the 12 fasces of the Roman lictors. |
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| In the centre of our logo is the first rune with 2 fasces next to it. |
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| On the right stands the long, architecturally austere, central building, whose only decoration is supplied by the fasces, emblems of the cardinal, in the upper band under the dormer windows. |
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| As a gesture of respect and great honor, Pompey lowered his fasces before Posidonius's door. |
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| When inside the pomerium, the lictors removed the axes from the fasces to show that a citizen could not be executed without a trial. |
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| Each lictor held a fasces, a bundle of rods that contained an axe. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| The number of fasces and lictors varied with the dignity of the magistrate. |
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| It is a representation of the Roman fasces in ebony, and is surmounted by a globe and an eagle in silver. |
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| On one side of it is a bust of the general, and on the other a trophy of English arms surrounding a fasces. |
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| Did you admit a man who was so openly filthy to the fasces and the tribunal? |
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| The one in the center has two swords with fasces and a caduceus and a scale. |
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| The Egyptians were offended to see the Roman fasces carried before him. |
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| He desired not the purple and the fasces, the insignia of vulgar command. |
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| I ask no splendor, no pomp of triumphs, nor lictors with their fasces. |
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| They also carried the fasces, and executed criminal sentences. |
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| To redirect the misconception and explain my point, I carry a bundle of sticks tied together to represent these fasces. |
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| Before him strode his twelve lictors bearing their fasces erect. |
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| Modern backing is made from high tech chemicals which are extruded into threads, then braided together multiplying strength and stretch resistance like a fasces. |
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| This gives rise to a structure suggestive of some ancient Roman fasces. |
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| It is then shed into the environment through the fasces where it can spread rapidly through a community, especially in situations of poor hygiene and sanitation. |
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