In addition, there are a number of unofficial awards using the insignia, and various other awards that use similar insignia but with different knots depicted.
The People's Liberation Army has not always used ranks or insignia.
This continues to cause confusion to those unfamiliar with the history of the rank, particularly in those armies using insignia similar to the British army.
It is officially used on documents such as United States passports, military insignia, embassy placards, and various flags.
Legal battle ensued between both factions, both claiming legitimacy and simultaneously using the party name and insignia.
These ranks are sometimes called six-star ranks, but holders of the ranks have never used six-star insignia.
Across the Palk Strait, the kinsmen of the Karavas too have used similar insignia in the past.
The HKPF continues to use similar ranks and insignia to those used in British police forces.
Other military, political, and civil or defense organizations used similar decal insignia to distinguish their helmets.
It was made immediately subject to the Apostolic See and to its rector was granted the right of using episcopal insignia seven times in the year.