Mottoes are generally changed at will and do not make up an integral part of the armorial achievement.

The armorial achievement on the brass is described as follows:

The armorial achievement of Lord Trenchard is displayed above the main enterance at the west end of the church.

The coat of arms of Charlottetown is the full armorial achievement as used by the municipal government as an official symbol.

It has already been pointed out that family continuity, conjugal status, and marital affiliations can be determined by an informed examination of armorial achievements.

The focus of modern heraldry is the armorial achievement, or the coat of arms, the central element of which is the escutcheon or shield.

The College employed art students from the Maryland Institute College of Art to paint the armorial achievements and create grant and matriculation documents.

When a member of the Company of the Wolf achieves the rank of knight, the armorial achievement of the member may be added to the banner in miniature.

Unique to this Order is the arrangement under which the enamelled metal plates of the complete armorial achievement of all three classes are placed in the seats of the Chapel.

The letters patent granting UCC its armorial achievements, including a heraldic standard, were issued on 4 January 1985, the 155th anniversary of the college's first day of classes.

The ceiling of another room, called Samson's Hall, incorporated 28 armorial achievements of families of France, Scotland and Lorraine, "curiously embossed and illuminated."

They also included the Royal Arms of France in their own armorial achievements, even after they had lost their French possessions (with the exception of Calais) after 1450.

An achievement (or armorial achievement or heraldic achievement) in heraldry is a full display of all the heraldic components to which the bearer of a coat of arms is entitled.

For this reason the cities and municipalities of this region retain this charge as part of the armorial achievement, supplemented with independent local symbols in order to differentiate the coats of arms from each other.

Heraldry has historically been limited in Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom, with the exception of the Kingdom having an armorial achievement in the ensign of its historical flag and His Majesty the Omukama having similar heraldry.

This replaced a previous motto, "I Take, but I Surrender", adopted for the school by Henry Plume in 1875 from the armorial achievement of one of his friends, Robert Fowler, Lord Mayor of Sydney.

Previously, between the 1930s and 2004, when new arms were granted or a matriculation of existing arms took note of a barony, the owner was given a chapeau or cap of maintenance as part of his armorial achievement on petitioning for the same.

The chapeau, if part of the armorial achievement, is placed into the space directly above the shield and below the helmet, and may otherwise be used on a visiting card, the flap of an envelope or to ensign the circlet of a crest badge as used on a bonnet.

The rules governing heraldry and armorial achievements in England have possibly resulted in a degree of confusion as to the status of the mottoes associated with both the Royal coat of arms of Scotland and those of the United Kingdom used in Scotland.