Fasces in a sentence

Fasces The unofficial but common National Emblem of France is backed by a fasces, representing justice.

This allowed archaeologists to identify the depiction of a fasces on the grave stele of Avele Feluske, who is shown as a warrior wielding the fasces.

The fasces consists of many small poles tied together to make a large powerful ax.

A fasces image, with the axe in the middle of the bundle of rods.

As an ideology founded on the principle of the subordination of individualism to the state, with the fasces as its symbolism, Fascism's early manifesto was the progressive foundation for what would become a totalitarian regime.

By Republican times, use of the fasces was surrounded with tradition and protocol.

Fasces also appear on the pylons flanking the main staircase leading into the memorial.

Fasces are a bundle of birch rods containing an axe.

Fasces carried within the Pomerium —the boundary of the sacred inner city of Rome—had their axe blades removed; within the city, the power of life and death rested with the people through their assemblies.

For instance, the regimental crest of the 71st Infantry Regiment (New York) of the New York National Guard consisted of a gold fasces set on a blue background.

Lictors attending the dictator kept the axes in their fasces even inside the Pomerium—a sign that the dictator had the ultimate power in his own hands.

Next in line, all on foot, came Rome's senators and magistrates, followed by the general's lictors in their red war-robes, their fasces wreathed in laurel, then the general in his four-horse chariot.

Previously, all Republican Roman commanding generals had held high office with imperium, and so, already were entitled to the lictors and fasces.

Quaestors were also given a fasces main (a bound bundle of wooden rods symbolizing a magistrate 's authority and jurisdiction) and were entitled one lictor main (civil servant bodyguard).

The Ecuadorian coat of arms incorporated the fasces in 1830, although it had already been in use in the coat of arm of Gran Colombia since 1821.

The symbolism of the fasces suggested strength through unity (see Unity makes strength ); a single rod is easily broken, while the bundle is very difficult to break.

To cover the mistake, the bottom line of the E is not painted in. Bordering these inscriptions are pilasters ornamented with fasces, eagles, and wreaths.