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One argument in favour of the mandatory life sentence is that it amounts to a symbolic indication of the unique heinousness of murder.
In this symbolic reversal of southern style, injustice, privilege and power are no buffer against an unavenged, incomprehensible death.
Abbots, abbesses and bishops were buried with their croziers, the pastoral staffs symbolic of their office.
The mirror-like quality of standing water may have had symbolic implications too.
Therefore, in our study, symbolic beliefs do not mediate the relation between prior contact and attitudes.
In addition, symbolic beliefs did not mediate the relation between prior contact and attitudes for either group.
The policy of making only a perfunctory effort or symbolic gesture toward the accomplishment of a goal, such as racial integration.
But more than all that, weddings are symbolic of new beginnings and a bright future.
A piece of jewellery, such as a wedding band, may hold a significant symbolic or religious meaning.
As Cross puts it, modern humans can transfer insights from one domain to another, often to a domain that is metaphoric or symbolic.
A second side to aestheticism in painting was the recovery of classicism, but now in sensual or symbolic guise.
Their approach to science was symbolic of a new style, following on from the experimental rationalism of Boyle and Newton.
It is a statue cast in bronze and shows both realism of style and undoubted symbolic ritual function.
I must confess that I have always found the concept of symbolic realism to be somewhat disconcerting.
The symbolic nature of Odin's sacrifice is that of rebirth, which was once a common element of traditional rites of passage.
The wind harp achieved its popularity in Romantic poetry largely because of its symbolic relationship with the forces of Nature.
It was before the assembled brethren of the Lodge that he exchanged symbolic embraces with Franklin.
The move was accompanied by a suitably symbolic redesign, which went live on November 17th.
The election was also a victory for women, providing them with an opportunity for a very symbolic re-entry into Afghan public life.
On the altar wall, itself, the symbolic right and left are evident in the frescoes of the bottom register.
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His most characteristic works were figures or groups of a historical, literary, allegorical, or symbolic nature.
The film is rich in allegorical theme and symbolic imagery, transforming the most banal of materials into miraculous epiphanies.
That is, the question of Irish or English became a symbolic but reified way of talking about power in language in the abstract sense of the word.
Behind the band, they carried stretchers, symbolic of the operational role played by the bandsmen in action.
Indeed, there are Hindu temples which have in the sanctum sanctorum no image at all but a yantra, a symbolic or mystic diagram.
Again and commonly, physical beauty enjoys a symbolic and allusive function in these Anglo-Saxon texts.
Trying too hard to be symbolic and trendily allusive, it collapses under the weight of its ambitions.
There is plenty of visiting among relatives and many special meals with symbolic foods shared by family members.
The day on which the protest was staged is symbolic too, Lord Vinayaka being the remover of all obstacles.
Items such as sarapes and huaraches, as well as other clothing symbolic of Mexican American culture, were displayed and worn with pride.
Much of this appears abstract but is in fact loosely representational or symbolic.
By the end of the two days the tree will be resplendent with new creative growth in symbolic colours reflecting the four seasons of the year.
Their artwork was believed to be very symbolic often being based on nature using images of birds and animals and fish.
The symbolic separation and opposition aside, the personal antagonism between the two men is not imagined by the media.
After all, the first letter of the alphabet you are now reading had its genesis as a symbolic representation of an ox.
No one is urged to dwell on the fact that the day's fireworks displays are symbolic of an armed revolution against tyranny and colonialism.
For many years, it was a largely symbolic response to the problem of fraud, rather than a serious anti-fraud unit.
Because they concretely challenged the function of power rather than engage in symbolic ritual protest of it, right?
There is a long symbolic tradition in Ethiopia of movement towards the right or to the east.
I do indeed find political aspects to some robberies, but note that most were not directed against symbolic targets.
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That feature most symbolic of entrance, the triumphal arch, is to be found only at the foot of the Capitol, where the ancient texts place it.
Jogen Chowdhury is more direct, eschewing the archetype or the symbolic for the specific and explicit in his paintings.
All the Armenians soldiers in Ethiopia are pushing Mardekian to win, because they want a symbolic vengeance against the Turks.
The world's most famous steam locomotive is symbolic of British industry, innovation and engineering.
The symbolic bread was broken and given to the disciples with instruction to eat it.
Money, the means of expression of value as a symbolic equivalent, is comparable, Marx said, to language.
The role of the Queen here is meant to be symbolic, although every Bill that is passed in Parliament must have royal assent.
It looks out over The Harbour, the Botanic Gardens and the symbolic, serrated sails of The Opera House.
The shrubbery was symbolic, and one particular tree was planted in memory of the Keller's lost son.
It depicted the five sacred mountains of Taoism in sort of symbolic form, with the five peaks at the top.
Certain cattle-herding tribes in the south place great symbolic and spiritual value on cows, which sometimes are sacrificed in religious rituals.
Tin purifies water, has an attractive silver lustre symbolic of light, and has no detrimental impact upon other substances.
One should keep in mind that symbolic attributions to buildings reflect their shape rather than their use.
He has a way of writing scenes emblematically, allowing encounters to carry a certain symbolic weight and making free with dramatic coincidence.
Fortunately, there are scads of principled, hopelessly marginal parties and candidates for whom you can cast a purely symbolic ballot.
He also carries the title of malik, which may be seen as symbolic of the state's technical, administrative, and policing functions.
Several small burns rushing towards the river are easily crossed, and the vegetation is symbolic of marshy land, with bog myrtle plentiful.
Furthermore, I feel it is perfectly legitimate, in the interests of creating a good drama, to telescope events or create symbolic scenes.
His acute sense of the symbolic and the televisual has created images of success so powerful that they overwhelm doubts about his logic.
Proof that history depends on mankind rather than a merely symbolic event was in evidence in two nations.
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No symbolic plant remains were recovered from this feature or from any internal features.
The monument is a massive flagpole entwined with the trunk and branches of a symbolic banyan tree forged in steel.
The white male becomes masculinized through the castration or symbolic feminization of his foil, the black male.
Between screens and building are long thin pools, symbolic of the three seas that surround Anatolia.
Victorian culture took seriously the materialities of visiting card practice as the exchange and expression of symbolic capital.
He also wrote on applications of the symbolic calculus to mathematical physics.
The Bhil women, who clambered into the second-class compartment of a train for the first time, have made a symbolic statement.
She didn't make a big deal of it, but I noticed it, and I think it was a symbolic gesture of what was in her mind.
Huntsmen admitted the meet was purely symbolic, as the weather had made any actual hunting impossible.
So in other words, they're using the biblical gospel narratives in a symbolic way in these novels.
It also serves as a symbolic self-portrait of the artist within these systems.
The submission of Clopton to his beating was symbolic of the defeat the Confederacy would suffer in less than a year.
His pictures are neither symbolic nor meretriciously anecdotal, but his colour and the rhythms and forms he paints are highly suggestive.
They bear symbolic, titular power whilst real power has migrated elsewhere.
An inverted glass is symbolic of the fact that those missing are unable to raise their glasses in a toast.
The day had a very symbolic beginning when the school principal handed over a golden key, a token of authority, to the student principal.
These objects fueled a desire for knowledge and possession, although most often through the symbolic operations of metaphor and metonymy.
Bells and bell-ringing have often been imitated by composers for symbolic purposes.
Others are totemic, involving plants or animals that are symbolic of kin groups.
Isaac's prayer is symbolic of the transcendental spiritual beauty of Judaism.
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It is my contention that the difference between a monarchy and a republic would be symbolic only.
The story is mined for symbolic aspects which signify power and powerlessness.
Will other political parties follow suit, in seeking out their own politically symbolic transports of delight?
The old typology understands the president at the Eucharist not in terms of a bare symbolism, but in terms of a symbolic realism.
I've been receiving symbolic shiners, charley horses and swollen jaws since I first picked up a mic and joked into it.
You are only slowing down your own growth rate through symbolic, righteous and trendy protest.
Particular combinations in threes of the unbroken yang line and the broken yin line form symbolic trigrams that have particular meanings.
The symbolic center of the film industry, Hollywood Boulevard has long been Los Angeles' secret, sick joke on hopeful tourists.
Also, he was uncomfortable with formality, dignity or the symbolic and monarchic aspects of the Presidency.
They are often called on to fill the symbolic vacuum left by the breaking of monarchical ties.
Of course even such symbolic discrimination is wrong, but monarchy is by definition a rejection of social equality.
But ordinary people might tune politics out, so they just can't resist prodding and stimulating us with those symbolic things.
These steeples are symbolic representations of the stone monoliths that once dotted the landscape of Europe.
The meeting is symbolic of Coleman's transition from a top executive at a corporate monolith to founder of a bootstrapping software company.
The churches of Nazareth were mentioned as tourist sights, shown to guests before the beginning of Intifada, but not as places of symbolic value.
Since its inception, radio has had a particular symbolic significance attached to it.
In measuring that weakness, his sexual misbehaviour is more symbolic than significant.
Yes, but these disappearing acts are significant because they are symbolic of a wider truth.
These statements may have been symbolic, but the symbolism was highly significant in the context.
We can recognize a logic of the unconscious only through its representation in the symbolic order, through the effect of signification.
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Hockey is used, in its symbolic form, to signify national unity and a national sense of purpose and community.
Cognitive Grammar takes the very strong position that all words and morphemes in a language are symbolic.
This symbolic geography, of course, typifies the upper division course in any discipline, where the field of study is the central topic.
This is not to forget the way that Ruskin can at times regard nature as a symbolic typifier of God's handiwork.
Horses are one of the recurring motifs in Yeats's art, symbolic of loyalty, intelligence and the unbridled freedom of his early childhood.
The painting is symbolic of the constant search for an identity by the woman, who remains mouthless in the entire series.
Still symbolic of uncivilized nature, wild game was transformed from an obstacle into a valuable resource in need of protection.
Like all the scenery he made for Graham, and probably for his other choreographic projects, it was symbolic, multivalent.
They represented deities, mythical creatures, imaginary beasts, and recognizable fauna imbued with symbolic meanings.
One reason for the choice of historical and mythological subjects was their symbolic importance.
Each is a symbolic portrait of a mythological or historically significant woman.
Death also has great symbolic significance, and is represented mythologically by the figure of Mra, the Buddhist devil.
The movement could even be described as uninventive yet the whole piece is incredibly moving and symbolic.
My claim that noun gender lacks a symbolic function should not be taken to imply that noun gender is utterly arbitrary and unmotivated.
Food is also symbolic of corruptive Europe, which offers only tinned, synthetic unnatural food.
Of course, there are always the regular clients who go for an unsaid but symbolic good morning greetings with bunches of fresh flowers.
The theoretical tradition in sociology known as symbolic interactionism has also been regarded by many writers as a further influence.
In Prayers for peace, a mother with upraised arms is a symbolic tree of life.
In a symbolic gesture one of his sculptures was uncovered in a solemn ceremony.
For the museum, abandoning the neutrality of its public presentation may also mean a symbolic abandonment of objectivity.
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The symbolic white that covers the marriage bed also veils this woman's face.
Hung unevenly along the wall, the topsy-turvy letters spelling Water decline toward the floor in a symbolic cascade.
While Muldrow's dream visions have an element of danger, more often than not they are beneficial to and symbolic of his practical challenges.
We believe that the Burgundians, with their great respect for the power of the symbolic, were on to something.
Colours are vivid and symbolic, including rich purple parchment and gold lettering.
I do not believe that civil union vows, or marriage vows for that matter, are only of symbolic value.
As we are about to leave, Michel presents us with a small packet of madeleines, the Proustian cake symbolic of the sweet excruciations of the past.
The symbolic transfer of vital force is also identified in cyclical family-naming traditions and mortuary practices, especially mummification and double burial.
In Greece for example, killing the minotaur is symbolic of a bullfight.
They can be seen as cosmic instruments, symbolic of manifesting the vibration of each of the planets to bring balance from the macrocosm to us as the microcosm.
Given the symbolic potency of the Anzac legend, the Australian War Memorial has long held a central place in mainstream Australian national identity.
In claiming, in this book, that language is essentially symbolic, I am alluding to the status of linguistic signs as symbols, rather than as icons or indexes.
The rapid decline of the sea turtle population is an astonishingly symbolic representation of what's wrong with our national environmental policy.
His efforts to resist the use of British cloth led to the resurgence of khadi and of course made the spinning wheel symbolic to the Indian independence movement.
By way of a little symbolic help, the location for their misspent youth and childhood dreams, a local tower block of derelict flats, is about to be razed to the ground.
They are oriented either to the cathedral and the sharply angled, gorgeously finished campanile or to the plaza with olive trees and other symbolic plants.
Once they reached the stage, a giant scissor lift raised a man dressed as the living statue of Admiral Nelson, in a symbolic recreation of the monument.
He has two types of algebra, arithmetical algebra and symbolic algebra.
Appearances at coffee shops and kaffeeklatsches have symbolic import, and hardworking office holders are still sometimes seen at town meeting-type events.
From our seats in the bleachers, we stared west, hoping that another kaleidoscopic Florida sunset would add symbolic luster to this most American rite of passage.
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His death is important to the journey of finding the father and is symbolic of the death of an uncaring father for one who will offer support and affection.
African gray parrots, not thought to be closely related to humans at all, do a much better job of using vocalization to communicate symbolic concepts.
Expunging the symbolic evidence of the old order did not satisfy the revolutionary nihilists who wanted to clear the ground for a new cultural order.
Their brandishing of totems, their busting of taboos is real world stuff, not symbolic.
For them, this is a battle every bit as symbolic and important as the alamo once was to Americans.
As a jazz lover, I want people to embrace the music for its intrinsic qualities, not its symbolic resonance.
Along the way, he accidentally embeds a nail in his foot, which is not symbolic at all.
That symbolic statement basically freed him from all the pain he was in.
A lovely feature of the garden is the showing of the River Shannon and its basin and estuary by flowing water, symbolic of peace and tranquillity.
What such tours show most surreally is that both mother and baby share a silent, symbolic, decorative role.
The Japanese Noh also antedates many developments in contemporary theater, such as no scenery, symbolic use of props and the appearance of non-actors on the stage.
Using images derived from mass psychology, public participation is distorted into little more than sloganeering, by ambitious politicians and symbolic politics.
I doubt Ms Rowling read Ginzburg before inventing Harry Potter, so we must be looking at a folk memory re-emerging periodically along highly structured symbolic axes.
For Dryden, the contrast between the First and Second Temples is symbolic of the relationship between contemporary Caroline poetry and that of the great Jacobeans.
So there's a symbolic and tactical significance there, that the insurgents, for whatever period of time, can wrest control of key sites away from the authorities.
It has proved to be the computational method of choice for symbolic manipulation in algebraic geometry, differential equations, and combinatorics.
Unlike Geertz's 1966 definition, the type of symbolic participation I am pointing to here does not involve the inculcation of a unitary or unified cultural style.
The tidewater, with its old colonial heritage, held a symbolic place as the state's most influential region, but by 1860 it held neither the most people nor the most wealth.
Like the vestry that surrounded ancient anointed Semitic kings, the dove was symbolic both of God's approval and the installation of power to his servant for service.
Satan, who represents Evil, the utterly vicious, is yet not a monster because he also fits absolutely into a certain moral universe, a certain symbolic order.
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The first calendar was located in inscriptions at Persepolis, an ancient Persian city located near the present city of Shiraz that was the symbolic capital of the Achaemenids.
Bridging the divide between the police and those who distrust them will take more than protests and symbolic gestures.
He implies that there is an unconscious substrate of symbolic life which allows new meaning to be created from the multiple significations of existing symbols.
He was for partial and symbolic measures when it came to race relations.
The disturbing thing nowadays is that resistance as spectacle has cut loose from its origins in genuine civil disobedience and is becoming more symbolic than real.
These two behaviors of subordination and aggressive domination, toadyism and the symbolic rape of reputations, are referred to here in their most extreme form.
The incidence between the ferocious elephant Nalagiri and the Buddha is symbolic and the intervening time is the comprehension of the teller and the listener.
Williams took up painting full time only in the 1980s, after years of making sculptural reliefs that presented more generalized, symbolic statements about the human condition.
The country held symbolic ground-breaking ceremonies to relink railways and roads through the heavily fortified demilitarized zone splitting the peninsula.
Beck proudly announces that he now uses a bust of TR as a doorstop in a symbolic show of his displeasure.
Regardless of its symbolic significance, however, Sangatte remains a pressing problem in its own right, and a running sore in Anglo-French relations.
However, Wednesday saw their triumphant return as staff and pupils walked happily two by two, in a symbolic gesture, back through the school gates.
For this reason, it has been identified with the notion of deity in numerous cultures and finds symbolic expression in such universal configurations as the mandala.
The gift was a cynical, symbolic, and contentless gambit in a monolithic ussr.
As this passage indicates, the white supremacist denial of black success effects a symbolic decapitation, or, more properly, psychological mutilation.
Whenever civil resistance has shown the slightest signs of evolving from symbolic action into anything remotely threatening, the crackdown is merciless.
The largely symbolic document was approved by 123 member states, with 13 voting against and 46 abstaining.
The Mere buried in the whales tail is a symbolic act of war.
What's the point of tacking on some trifling symbolic punishment to their deep anguish?
Beach imagery, backyard barbecues, and sport also became symbolic of a leisured lifestyle, and were reinforced with the rise of international tourism.
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But on Thursday week a bipartisan group of senators struck a symbolic compromise to slash the ethanol payments.
Nevertheless, his idealistic request for wife and mistress to be present confers symbolic legitimacy on both.
The beauty revivalism of the 1990s often expressed dissatisfaction with the priority postmodern discourse placed on the social and symbolic regulation of the subject.
So it's kind of symbolic Islamisation inventing religious topics which are invading the public's fear and making it at the end an unpolitical place.
The extraordinary symbolic multivalence of food and eating extends much further, so that food has probably always been charged with questions of moral significance.
To me they are as mysterious and seemingly symbolic as Stonehenge, marking some unknown ley line along the mountains, silently turning, facing the wind.
When it is symbolic, the insects often represent filth and uncleanness.
This is a rich symbolic story, full of allegorical possibilities.
These were followed by a series of hollowed out shikhara forms, with the symbolic deity sitting at the base.
Despite the symbolic presence of a few Zairean academics at the seminar, the opinions of the Zaireans themselves were given little consideration.
In addition to its stated objectives, however, the Peace Corps was, and continues to be, rich in symbolic meaning for Americans.
The symbols of peace were released at sunrise in Beijing's symbolic heart of Tiananmen Square in a ceremony for the Oct.
In characteristic fashion, Tift has included in the work numerous objects, all of which have symbolic relevance.
Isidore's Christian-allegorical and symbolic elaboration of Plinian natural history is also a preoccupation of early modern thought.
You must not infer from this that I do not like or understand the emancipatory or symbolic notion of African fabric, the contrary is true.
Her vanished voice, noted on the second page of the novel, emblemizes the collapse of both semiotic and symbolic, maternal and paternal language.
At the root of symbolic interaction is a focus on relationships between parties who must coact successfully to reach some end.
The latter four essays work out symbolic understandings, and tend toward New Historicism.
She lost that claim long ago, but her symbolic importance has only grown.
Heavily symbolic and stylistically confusing, it's a passionate attack on globalisation.
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It also rejects colonially imposed frontiers as clearly as the recent symbolic leveling of the Iraqi-Syrian border.
While the opposition's entry into the bicameral legislature is highly symbolic, the new lawmakers will have little power.
Two chapters use combinatoric, number theoretic, and symbolic machinery in a discussion of one-dimensional dynamical systems.
In ancient Egypt the mastaba was a special kind of tomb where mourners made offerings at the symbolic door.
The yew tree can often be found in church graveyards and is symbolic of sadness.
Men would shave their hair, while women cut off a symbolic lock for deconsecration.
In February 1937, the League did ban foreign volunteers, but this was in practice a symbolic move.
Even if more symbolic than actual, the benefits of the alliance mattered greatly to Scotland.
Some monarchies have weak or symbolic legislatures and other governmental bodies the monarch can alter or dissolve at will.
Certain military uniforms such as the Beefeater or the Queen's Guard are considered to be symbolic of Englishness.
More recently there has been a trend of returning to the more traditional and symbolic representations.
Germany was reunited, after the symbolic fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and the maps of Central and Eastern Europe were redrawn once more.
So I decided to give them a generic title, A Thousand Names, implying infinity, a thousand being a symbolic number.
Also, governing bodies in many communities have passed symbolic resolutions against the act.
Evidence that at times occupants neglected the defences might suggest that symbolic power was as significant as warfare.
Haig cemented his reputation at this battle and Ypres remained a symbolic piece of ground in later years.
In the folklore of the Komi people of the Urals, stoats are symbolic of beautiful and coveted young women.
When the law was repealed in 1782, it was no longer ordinary Highland dress, but was adopted instead as the symbolic national dress of Scotland.
A symbolic key to the gate of Arbroath's Abbey is carried to mark the date in 1320 that inspired this celebration.
The Llys remained the symbolic throne of the Kings of Gwynedd from the 9th century to the 13th century.
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As a result, despite a symbolic emphasis on royal power, Henry's rule was relatively circumscribed and constitutional.
Balfour's unseating became symbolic of the Conservative Party's landslide defeat.
The symbolic liver bird of Liverpool is commonly thought to be a cross between an eagle and a cormorant.
These are playfulness, framing, using symbolic language and employing the subjunctive mood.
In a symbolic act of visitation, the Russian flag was placed on the ocean floor exactly at the Pole.
These archaeologists see symbolic organisation of human social life as the key transition in modern human evolution.
These remains have associated personal ornaments in the form of beads and worked shell, suggesting symbolic behavior.
To what extent any of these pieces were symbolic of wealth and status is not clear.
Evidence for symbolic behavior such as body ornamentation and burial is ambiguous for the Middle Paleolithic and still subject to debate.
A Petroglyph is an intaglio abstract or symbolic image engraved on natural stone by various methods, usually by prehistoric peoples.
The world of the novel draws heavily upon the symbolic meaning of locations and events.
It has frequently been suggested that they may have served a ritual or symbolic function.
Yet another definition sees language as a system of communication that enables humans to exchange verbal or symbolic utterances.
The legions' eagle standards, of great symbolic importance to the Romans, were lost.
Titles of nobility became symbolic along with a stipend while governance of the country shifted to scholar officials.
Making vows and taking oaths became a symbolic concept in law practice that developed over time in different cultures.
During the Reconquista and the Crusades, the cross served the symbolic function of possession that a flag would occupy today.
It bound itself to pay him a symbolic annual tribute, a move that allowed it to maintain its effective independence.
The Renaissance image known as the Vitruvian Man represented a symbolic and mathematical exploration of the human form as world axis.
In the first stage, the initiates are separated from their old identities through physical and symbolic means.
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Grid is a scale referring to the degree to which a symbolic system is a shared frame of reference.
These periods of symbolic inversion have been studied in a diverse range of rituals such as pilgrimages and Yom Kippur.
Clifford Geertz also expanded on the symbolic approach to ritual that began with Victor Turner.
As a symbolic activity, it is no longer confined to religion, but is distinguished from technical action.
Esala Perahera is a symbolic Buddhist festival consisting of dances and decorated elephants held in Kandy in July and August.
The formative period saw the spread of distinct religious and symbolic traditions, as well as artistic and architectural complexes.
For the Inca nobility, the llama was of symbolic significance, and llama figures were often buried with the dead.
Though the trip was a humanitarian disaster and financially probably just broke even, it was a symbolic victory.
Fur clothing was first worn during the fourteenth to seventh century and is a symbolic garment in European History.
Chinese export porcelain was generally decorative, but without the symbolic significance of wares produced for the Chinese home market.
Others, such as the Plymouth Brethren, take the act to be only a symbolic reenactment of the Last Supper.
The unleavened bread also underscores the symbolic belief attributed to Christ's breaking the bread and saying that it was his body.
It is seen as a symbolic memorial and is central to the worship of both individual and assembly.
His own view was close to Zwingli's symbolic view, but it was not identical.
The opposition to ritualism therefore had a deeply cultural and symbolic significance that extended far beyond purely theological concerns.
They typically do not receive the honorific forms of address nor do they bear the symbolic trappings of a publicly appointed judge.
A tradition is a belief or behavior passed down within a group or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past.
Later one side of the barter started to involve precious metals, which gained symbolic as well as practical importance.
He chose the traditional loincloth as a rejection of Western culture and a symbolic identification with the poor of India.
A senior Bush administration official described that goal as largely symbolic since rehirings have been quietly taking place already.
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They argue that the picket line is symbolic of a wound and those who break its borders to return to work are the scabs who bond that wound.
Modest as these practical schemes were, they represented a symbolic challenge to the existing state of society.
His use of symbolic landscapes was typical of the Romantic era, while his sceptical and pessimistic perspective was typical of the Modern era.
But henge orientation is highly variable and may have been more determined by local topography than by desire for symbolic orientation.
The subfractals will consist of points associated with infinite strings from a subshift of finite type or sofic subshift on the symbolic space.
Washingtonians used to explain their continued allegiance to Barry by talking of his symbolic resonance for the nation.
The vivid images in the book are symbolic, but symbolic to a particular time and place, not shapeable to whatever someone wants them to mean.
Corporatising labour law was symbolic of a shift to the right in Australia and it heralded a retreat from the erosion of managerial prerogatives.
In a sense, it's symbolic of Dubai's wider rebirth fuelled by mass trade, aviation, and today's penchant for even glitzier tourism.
Psychotherapists say the Web has become a symbolic link between this world and whatever comes after.
As suggested above, one source was formal symbolic logic, such as found in the work of the philosopher Gottlob Frege.
Your death is symbolic of the harsh reality facing so many of us.
They perceived it as symbolic sexual service in the minstrel lane.
To me the key problem relates to the theorisation of what is meant by symbolism and how this relates to symbolic material culture.
But Alabama, the heart of Dixie, where the archsegregationist George C. Wallace served as governor, holds a special symbolic value.
In addition, our implementation integrates subsymbolic automacy with considerable symbolic computing, most discernible in the mapping algorithm.
But like all the other symbolic devourings in the novel, this one too brings its revelation.
Fivescore years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
It forms part of the Anglican Communion with the Archbishop of Canterbury acting as its symbolic worldwide head.
This use of clothing in particular was very symbolic, and distinct differences within groups in the cemetery could be found.
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Although all government and parliamentary acts are decided beforehand, the privy council is an example of symbolic gesture the King retains.
Henry placed a symbolic emphasis on rebuilding royal authority, but his rule was relatively circumscribed by Magna Carta.
The State Opening of Parliament is a ceremony loaded with historical ritual and symbolic significance for the governance of the United Kingdom.
In this respect, the prostitute came to have symbolic significance as the embodiment of the violation of that divide.
These symbolic directions became popular, as operational calculus, and pushed to the point of diminishing returns.
He studied algebra in the form of symbolic methods, as far as these were understood at the time, and began to publish research papers.
In 1847 Boole published The Mathematical Analysis of Logic, the first of his works on symbolic logic.
There are different forms of the NNV, with the number nine having symbolic associations in Norse mythology.
Behind the symbolic nature of these cultural emblems, there are strong elements of tribal and lordship ties.
Flowers, birds, animals, instruments, symmetric mandala drawings, objects, idols are all part of symbolic iconography in Hinduism.
Apsara Dance, famous for strong hand and feet movement, is a great example of Hindu symbolic dance.
Many traditions hold a belief in the five classical elements, although they are seen as symbolic as representations of the phases of matter.
Some modern Druids also use ritual staves, a symbolic magical instrument long associated with both Druids and wizards generally.
At times, he included classical and biblical references and inscriptions, as well as drapery, architecture, and symbolic props.
Many deploy broad blocks of harmoniously arranged colour and are symbolic rather than narratival.
Much of his poetry recounts in symbolic allegory the effects of the French and American revolutions.
Ihram is also symbolic for holy virtue and pardon from all past sins.
The semiotic refers to the various amorphous and unstable corporeal drives and impulses that traverse the infant's body prior to its induction into the symbolic order.
The cable stay bridge design was chosen because of its symbolic potential.
She is understood in various and often conflicting aspects as the embodiment of treachery, the quintessential victim, or simply as symbolic mother of the new Mexican people.

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