Sentences with phrase «as symbols of»

As symbols of joy, chrysanthemums are one of the most popular wedding flowers.

The playful motifs in wings and soft fur which can be understood as symbols of Siren, the troubadour, have been reinterpreted with a modern twist and found in the prints of Ike's own paintings and the patterns created by embroideries.

In fables and folklore, turtles have often been portrayed as wise, and revered as symbols of longevity and tranquility.

People around the world have used labyrinths and mazes as symbols of life's complications.

America is a nation in which automobiles have long served as symbols of personal freedom, rugged individualism, and good old machismo.

NEW YORK CITY — Bill de Blasio and other leaders will march in a parade up Fifth Avenue on Monday to honor Christopher Columbus amid backlash against over the mayor's review of city monuments that some call as symbols of hate, including statues of the Italian explorer.

OSV Collectors» Forum speakers will include Colleen Callahan, Independent Historian: Put the Manly Breeches On: Boys» Clothing as Symbols of Manhood in the 19th Century; Laura E. Johnson, PhD., Associate Curator at Historic New England: From Stays to Skeleton Suits: Dressing Children in Early America; Chris Bates, Old Sturbridge Village Costume Coordinator: Making A Portrait Come Alive: Creating Reproduction Clothing at Old Sturbridge Village, presented with Rebecca Beall, Old Sturbridge Village Collections Manager, and Jean Contino, Old Sturbridge Village Coordinator of Households and Women's Crafts.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

Jack Ma has achieved rock - star status in China as a symbol of Chinese entrepreneurship and as an evangelist for small business.

Before it folded, in November, the online vendor of plants and all other things related to gardening emerged as a symbol of fiercely innovative and elaborate customer service.

In effect, he turned the patriotic poster on its head, making it serve in his novel not as a symbol of heroic national resolve but rather of insidious government intrusion into the lives of its citizens.

Worst of all, many lenders will use a small business owner's personal credit risk as a symbol of the business's risk.

These days, Rougeau exalts his old employer as a symbol of corporate diversity progress.

«When you look at Hong Kong, you see it as a symbol of the degree to which this isn't going to be as smooth and necessarily as successful as the conventional wisdom suggests.»

Could this use of marriage as a symbol of salvation have a reviving effect on our prayer lives?

Thus, the transition from the hare to the rabbit as a symbol of Easter.

I intend, as a symbol of my defiance to the 911 attackers & their fanatical ilk, to freely & openly wear the symbol of my belief today.

Now Oxycodone has joined shuttered factories and Donald Trump as a symbol of white working - class desperation and fecklessness.

When the Gospel according to Matthew uses the story of Jonah as a symbol of resurrection from the dead, (Matthew xii.

The tradition of folding a palm frond into the shape of a cross powerfully illustrates the kingdom message of Jesus, as a symbol of royalty becomes a symbol of sacrifice.

With Gandhi formulating the political ethic of satyagraha as an application of Jesus» Sermon on the Mount and Tagore interpreting the Cross as the symbol of God's identification with suffering humanity, there was also the growing awareness that not only western humanism but also the religion of Christianity would get creativity and stability only by planting them in the Indian cultural soil and allowing it to put down roots in it.

Today mosques are found throughout the Islamic world as the symbol of Islam, the center for Islamic worship, teachings, and service.