salute

tervehdys

haista

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tervehtiä A formal gesture made in honor of someone or something, usually with the hand or hands in one of various particular positions.

The soldiers greeted the dignitaries with a crisp salute.

The Roman salute, in which the right arm was raised in a straight and perpendicular manner, had been adopted by D'Annunzio during his regency in Fiume. Like other rituals utilized by D'Annunzio, the salute became part of the rising fascist movement's symbolic patrimony and was inherited by Mussolini's government.

Like lines of perspective or the beams of searchlights at Nazi Party rallies that shone into the night sky where they met in an infinitely distant beyond, the arms and hands of those giving each other the Hitler salute forever approached each other but never joined.

And Kaszaat let out a shriek of pure anger, bursting forwards suddenly, flinging her hand up towards Drephos as though in salute.

The orchestra performed the concert as a salute to Gershwin.

They saluted the flag as it passed in the parade.

Yet the simple fact stands that a school child compelled to salute the flag, when he has been taught the flag is an "image" which the Bible forbids him to worship, is in effect made to say what he does not believe.

The person who salutes is slavishly obedient, fearful to offend the authorities or other people; the person who declines to salute has integrity and independence.

I would like to salute the many dedicated volunteers that make this project possible.

I salute every preaching and teaching woman with the courage to step out on faith and trust God with her life and her calling.

I saluted Bill at the concert, but he didnt see me through the crowd.''

Then I salute you with this kingly title: / Long live Richard, England's royal king!

Would I had no being, / If this salute my blood a jot; it faints me, / To think what follows.