Sentences with phrase «about symbolic»

While reading Jottings By An Employer's Lawyer (which by the way is a very good US blawg for those who are interested), I found out about a case where news anchor Tom Burlington at Fox 29 in Philadelphia was fired for using the n - word during a staff meeting at which reporters and producers were discussing reporter Robin Taylor's story about the symbolic burial of the word by the Philadelphia Youth Council of the NAACP.

It is about something we know, or about some symbolic situation... I am involved with real space, the room itself, real light, and real surface.»

These movements are less about the symbolic realm than a reshuffling of the options, a shift into this direction or that, without knowing exactly what will happen.

Would you like to learn more about their symbolic motifs, complex embroidery and elaborate embellishment?

Sure, that one minute is beneficial on a cellular scale — but what about the symbolic?

The move to cut these programs is about symbolic grievances and perceived bias and a result that gets these agencies funded in a manner that causes these agencies to be more apolitical or to try to be more balanced on a liberal - conservative perspective would be considered a win by the partisans on the right.

«Reading and writing are all about symbolic representation,» Leeds notes.

To discover that a local church's most intimate and intense activities do not at their base reflect a withdrawal from the world but rather a participation in public, mythic structures can be a liberating perception about the symbolic depth and breadth of church activity.

When push comes to shove, is this debate really about the symbolic denigration of a religious practice, or is the worry that once some parents find out about the risks, they'll reject received dogma and discard the practice?

The debate about the symbolic dimension of expression, about the relation between literal and figurative uses of language, is an academic battleground.

Such engineers are not necessarily concerned about the neighborhood or about the symbolic and familial potential of the place; they seek instead to determine how well the house mechanically operates, how well it does its job.

Nevertheless, Mr. Bottum is right about the symbolic power of sacrifice, whether human or animal, to sustain a culture.

Today, more than a century after Lincoln articulated a moral center on behalf of national reconciliation, secularity has so infiltrated our leadership and our elite institutions that presidential candidates are reluctant to employ moral language and are uncertain about any symbolic code.

In Romans 14 speaking about symbolic acts, Paul makes the remarkable statement that nothing is unclean of itself, only if one thinks it is unclean, is it unclean.

(except not sure about unicellular organisms, though) I think you're trying to make some oint about symbolic thought or similar.

Not exact matches

Symbolic workplace changes are critical at the top of organizations if you are serious about inclusion.

[There's something] symbolic about walking through a man's world in a man's pair of pants that makes you feel uncomfortable.»

«It has real and symbolic importance about the direction of our economy.»

That's symbolic of the fact that there are more countries competing for market share, even as global exports of good and services are growing at meagre rate of about 3 %.

Fourth, he has to decide a few symbolic things he's going to do that people will buzz about that will set the tone for where McDonald's is going... Fifth, whatever the speed of action and decision - making at McDonald's, take it up five volts.

The Royal Canadian Navy (the «Royal» was restored to the naval and air elements of the Canadian forces this year, 45 years after the Canadian military ditched many of its historical symbolic associations with the Crown) has just 8,500 personnel and about 20 combat vessels, yet is tasked to exercise sovereignty over three coastlines and is facing major procurement challenges with regard to replacement of its 40 year old supply ships, plus new combat vessels.

When Schultz says, «let's meet the parents of our employees in China» — he's talking about more than a few symbolic handshakes.

Hajj is very busy event where about 3 million people in remembrance of prophet Ibrahim (a.k.a. Abraham) and his wife as ordered by God running between 2 mountains, sacrificing animals on 10th day, stoning symbolic satan who tried to deceive Ibrahim.

«Its a kind of symbolic showing for them that we love you, you are our brothers and sisters, we are tragically separated but we are one and we are concerned about you we are praying,» says Chang.

I believe that it contains several metaphors and symbolic principles that lead me to the truth about God.

We do not know anything about the days of Noah other than remnants of a symbolic picture language that brought the story forward and was recorded by Moses in about 1,400 BC.

We learn from a close reading of the text about the formal conditions for aesthetic enjoyment and symbolic significance.

The decline in the number of missionaries sent abroad has become for them a symbolic focal point for their concern about the entire denominational involvement overseas.

Once we accept that the language of Genesis is symbolic, then there is no difficulty in holding both what it really teaches about creation and what we have learned from modern science.

Members of the group SNAP (The Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests) planned to hold signs and hand out flyers urging Roman Catholic cardinals to stop making symbolic gestures about abuse and instead meet with victims and give case files to the authorities.

The people whose interpretations of experience we are studying are not Trobiand Islanders, but Jews of the first - century Mediterranean world; to understand how they interpret their lives, we need to learn as much as possible about the properly historical realities within which they lived: the social and symbolic worlds of Roman rule, Hellenistic culture, and a variegated Judaism.

«Moving these «holydays» (how the etymology of that word says so much about what they were to our culture) represents a symbolic retreat of huge proportions; conceding the notion that the secular world and the imperative of its ephemeral commitments must now be considered more real than the way in which the divine has entered our history and shaped it.»

As he wrote earlier in this chapter, any use of the test as «a substitute for searching conversation» about world view / setting and the other dimensions of narrative explored later in the book was in his view more likely to yield a mechanist reduction than a deepened symbolic understanding.

In the spring of 1926 an incident occurred at the University of Chicago which may well be considered symbolic of the shift in perspective about which I am to speak in this chapter.

Today's rapidity of change (technological, symbolic, metaphorical, communicative) challenges us to reflect and communicate about faith within changing Church communities in changing cultures.

Talking about acceptance and diversity allows mainline churches to signal their adherence to the canons of liberalism and to erect symbolic boundaries against fundamentalism.

Tattooing over scar tissue is very painful, but there's something really symbolic about that particular cover - up for me.

However, in the past few decades many Christian thinkers, recognizing the difficulty of supporting claims about cosmic realities, have emphasized the symbolic character of all such language.

Within this logic, questions about «the meaning of life» itself represent the most encompassing form of symbolic integration.

There is this in the New York Times obituary: «Dr. Macquarrie wrote that all language about God was symbolic and not to be taken literally.

I had read a similar explanation many years ago — about oil being the «medical preparation» for healing of the day — with a modern - day understanding that the oil we might use today could be symbolic of the medical preparation for healing — yes, even as we take advantage of the wonders and miracles of modern medicine.

For the first time in history, children are born into a symbolic environment, pervading the average home about 7 hours a day.

Symbolic reference has its vital importance, because «what we want to know about... chiefly resides in those aspects of the world disclosed in causal efficacy:... what we can distinctly register is chiefly to be found among the percepta in the mode of presentational immediacy» (PR 169).

Instead of a robust conception of consent that includes searching public deliberation about the most enduring moral questions, Obama envisions a less proactive, more symbolic recognition on the part of the public that their interests are being adequately managed by the political class.

Another, even more important, difference between Hartshorne's and any classical theory is not formal, but material — namely, his demonstration that the strictly literal claims that must be made about God if there are to be any symbolic or analogical predications at all must be partly positive, not wholly negative, in meaning.

By conceiving God as eminently relative, he is not only able to conceive God as also eminently nonrelative or absolute but is further able, without falling into contradiction, to make the symbolic or analogical assertions about God that are essential to theistic religious faith and worship.

Thinking about theological education as a participation in the symbolic will include the construction and engagement in present and future symbolic patterns as well as understanding and interpreting symbolic thought in past centuries.

The Christian doctrine of the triunitarian nature of God, to which we shall come in the latter part of this chapter, is a symbolic account that gives a better ultimate explanation of what the whole story is about than does some account true (so far as it goes) which is given in scientific (or similar) terms alone.

The first few bill that passed were about abortion and much since has been symbolic legislation.

It is a symbolic way of talking about attitudes and values of actual persons who have been caught up in devotion to one in relation to whom they have found a new and ultimately satisfying kind of life.