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• n  the imperial authority symbolized by a scepter
• n  a ceremonial or emblematic staff

• His sceptre is a broomstick, topped by a snow-white rooster.
• To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle - Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil This labour, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and through soft degrees.
• Her island sceptre assumed control Of a large proportion of all the earth, And through the ages she made her mark .

• scepter
• verge
• wand

News & Articles

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• Sceptre Hospitality Resources Launches Postcarder App for Mobile Devices
  Sceptre Hospitality Resources today announced the launch of its fourth iOS app, Postcarder. The new native app, available for the iPad and iPhone, allows users to create and
  June 21, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• George Clooney in Monsters and Critics.com
  Clooney said: "You tour with the other guys who've won before. We've got a bus. It's Matthew McConaughey's bus. You get a sash and a sceptre and, well, we don't like to call it a tiara."
• King Gyanendra in Thaindian.com (blog)
  I have handed over the crown, sceptre and throne to the government,Gyanendra said.
• Peter Caruana in BBC News
  Mr Caruana said: "Our anger is on the basis that the Spanish government were told more and much more quickly than the Gibraltar government were about the exact nature of the repairs that HMS Sceptre was undertaking. We don't believe that it is...