Sentences with phrase «as symbols»

These types of jewelry and ribbons are used as symbols for promoting infant loss and pregnancy.

They are also used as symbols for male breast cancer and male testicular cancer awareness.

Passing the 50 percent mark may be a symbolic distinction, but as symbols go it is an important one.

One possibility would be to take them as symbols of man's inner life.

The Scriptures have always used the widow and orphan as symbols of society's most vulnerable and defenseless people.

First, the period of philosophic romanticism «endeavoured to comprehend the significance of the history of religion by regarding specific religious manifestations as symbols of a primordial revelation.»

Amos employed them as symbols of the coming punishment which God would send upon Israel, and from him they passed into somewhat common prophetic imagery of the coming great day.

I do not mean, however, finally to leave these observations as analogies, but rather as symbols, in the sense that the symbol contains within itself the presence of that which it symbolizes.

Cross and resurrection, in so far as they have a place in the kerygma at all, figure only as symbols of detachment from the world.

There shall be no other gods, and no images, religious forms, or traditions shall be tolerated as symbols through which we pretend that we have captured the essence of God.

Very early in the history of the Church the four living creatures of the Revelation (4:7) were used as the symbols of the Gospels.

These developments within Protestantism paved the way for women's ordination as ministry took on an increasingly functional nature and men no longer were seen as symbols of God's transcendence.

Instead we can see others» love and fidelity as symbols or sacraments of an ultimate fidelity to promise.

Far from thinking of billiard balls as symbols of reality, Whitehead takes human experience as the event or process that points to the nature of all individual entities, from protons to people.

Family - night suppers and Sunday evening hymnfests rank high as symbols of the congregation's fellowship.

In Munch's hands, the theme has a psychological intensity that is conveyed not merely by the conventional story, but by the visual impact of images as symbols.

But as I urged above, it would be wrong (in my judgment) to try to interpret all this too literally and logically; Prof. Hartshorne was right, I said, in saying that the symbol of the divine Triunity, like the «incarnation» and «atonement» as symbols, is much more appropriately retained as a symbol, as imaginative proclamation; it can then retain its indicative and suggestive value without our seeking to phrase it in the idiom of some particular philosophy or world view.

Nothing is permanent, not even the mountains, which the ancient psalmists used to regard as symbols of enduring stability.

These traditionally have been interpreted as symbols of the Eucharist and Baptism.

For all we could possibly know, all our psychical concepts apply to God not as analogies, but as symbols, in exactly the same way in which at least some of them clearly must apply if we are to do any justice at all to the faith and witness of theistic religion.

The blue policemen and the red pillar boxes, which George Orwell noted as symbols of England, can still be seen, though the police especially are nowadays best examined from a misty distance.

I do not see a problem in having a cross as long as the symbols of the other religions of the victims are represented as well.

They are affirmed as symbols but denied as literal predications, for the categories of finitude can not be applied literally to God.

Max Lerner, «The Constitution and the Court as Symbols,» Yale Law Journal, 46 (1937), pp. 1290 - 1319; Alexander Bickel, The Least Dangerous Branch (Indianapolis: Bobbs - Merrill, 1962), pp. 29 - 33.

8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.

The inventory for privatization now includes the accumulated knowledge and memory of the people, the cultural and religious wisdom as well as symbols and people's ability to find pleasure are reduced as a commodity in the market place.

The higher animals have learned to interpret these sense - qualities, thus perceived, as symbols of the actualities in the external world — actualities which are themselves perceived only by vague feelings of their causal agency.

Secondly, they serve as symbols or standards for the religious community.

Later on, Christian families set up paradise trees in their homes as symbols of redemption through the birth of Christ.

If relations in Prolog are to be interpreted as symbols for prehensions in a Whiteheadian context, they must possess the capacity to be arbitrarily complex in order to represent complex prehensions.

Thus, we see no limit to the complexity and usefulness of computer programs that have their own history, go through their own development, learn from their own mistakes, and as symbols of Whiteheadian propositions offer both intelligent lures and the means to confirm or deny them.

Both are used in the design of the new church as symbols of unity.

Later, symbolic reference is alluded to as the theory «according to which our sensory perceptions stand as symbols for the activities in the external world» (PW 169/186).

But might not the perception of them as symbols of looming danger be an occasion for acknowledging right «wing prescience?

Narratives actually function in the world as symbols.

Torture and public trials resulted in burnings at the stake of poor and working - class women viewed as symbols of rebellion against the ruling church.

And finally, the Wahhabis believe that God's names as given in the Qur» an must be accepted without interpreting them as symbols or in an anthropomorphic sense.

No one kept those kinds of records which is why stories such as Perpetua's became so important as symbols of the persecution as a whole - serving much the same role as Anne Frank does today for the holocaust... a symbol of a sad and painful time.

«As a country, we've long celebrated cars as symbols of freedom and identity,» Zimmer wrote in a blog post.

Xinjiang, home to China's Muslim Uighur ethnic minority, restricts religious practises — such as growing beards, wearing headscarves, and fasting during Ramadan — that are seen as symbols of «Islamic extremism.»

In the aftermath of the referendum, Tsipras decided to present the head of his finance minister as a symbol that the Greek government was serious about negotiating in good faith.

Republicans view Cordray's position as the sole figurehead atop an enforcement agency created by the Dodd - Frank Act as the symbol of postrecession regulatory overreach under President Barack Obama.

«There's a massive level of excitement about what it represents as a symbol of urban renewal, ambition for our city and recommitment to our downtown as the heart of it all,» says the 37 - year - old mayor.

Her act served as a symbol for the civil rights movement and springboard for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Built just inside North Korea's border in 2004 as a symbol of economic partnership, it is a place where commerce trumps ideology, while generating $ 2 billion a year for the North's trade - starved economy.

«You get some people that are using their home as a symbol that they have arrived,» he said, counting young and recently rich individuals, such as hockey players, among this group.

The hashtag #WhiteWednesdays quickly spread across social media, with women posting pictures of themselves wearing white as a symbol of protest.

Today's «undecided» students, however, are by no means wearing that label like a scarlet letter; rather, it's often seen as a symbol of whimsical youth, of spontaneous self - discovery, of a Tolkien-esque desire to explore: «Not all those who wander are lost...» Well, sort of.

The name alludes not to any quality of the product but to the way peaches have been used as a symbol of the vagina in literature for hundreds of years.

Young men are prohibited from wearing modishly long hair, which the chairman regards as a symbol of the Western counterculture and a menace to the work ethic that he prizes.