Sentences with phrase «in symbolic gestures»

Nationalistic rave harboured within collective groups has often found expression in symbolic gestures.

[150] In a symbolic gesture the House later passed the motion unanimously by acclamation.

Chanting «Ban Cuomo's plan,» teachers at IS 24 in Great Kills on Staten Island formed a human barricade in front of the main entrance at 7 a.m. on March 11, a day early, in a symbolic gesture to protect the school from the governor's proposals.

In a speech to 3,000 senior officers in Paris, Mr Sarkozy also confirmed his intention to return France to Nato command, which it left in 1966 in a symbolic gesture to Washington.

In a symbolic gesture aimed at further healing relations with the gay community and burying the Tories» «nasty party» image, Mr Cameron this week apologised for Section 28 - the controversial law brought in by the Conservatives in 1988 banning local authorities from portraying homosexuality in a positive light.

The scarves also provided an interactive component where people could try on other people's eyes in a symbolic gesture of empathy during community events.

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Fallon made two cameos on The Late Show, which basically served as a concession that the night belonged to Colbert, as well as representing a symbolic friendly gesture in a late - night TV landscape that has historically been anything but hospitable.

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It's a grand symbolic gesture, inspiring, but there's no power in it.

Life imitates art, as we increasingly see in our crafted mediaworld of images and symbolic gestures.

As in similar Native American traditions, «all these symbolic images and gestures are associated with the wind and with the breathing of the universe — the visible motion of the power that invests everything in existence» (Jamake Highwater in Ritual of the Wind) To exist in family is to experience an insistent Chinook wind, blowing warm in winter and cool in summer, lending a direction and center to all that one does.

Ok, on to Christian Baptism: Baptism is the public confession of one's faith, and is a symbolic gesture of putting to death your old sinful way of life (as in, living for yourself), and be raised a new creation in Christ (and now your focus is on His Will, not your own).

Bridging the divide takes more than symbolic gestures, wrote D. L. Mayfield, author of Assimilate or Go Home, who works with refugees and immigrants in Portland.

Myths are expressed, not only in symbolic words, but also in symbolic acts — dance, gesture, drama, and formalized cultic acts or rites.

Mrs. Fletcher has installed a time clock in the office, a symbolic gesture.

The presence of some young people in parliament may act as a strong symbolic gesture to reengage young people in politics, potentially increasing their voting turnout.

With this in hand, we can then ask which better explains the observable pattern of internal deliberations, official discourse, symbolic gestures, and even the nature and timing of substantive foreign policy actions in the case in question.

Paterson spokesman Morgan Hook said yesterday that the governor would not return 10 percent of his salary — or $ 17,900 — to the state treasury, as he did last year in a «symbolic» gesture of solidarity with budget - squeezed public - employee unions.

iii - Mudra (Seal, lock): The symbolic gestures of the hands where the fingers are held together denoting positions which close the body apertures Bandha (Bondage, joining together): When prana is made to flow in the yogi's body, employing bandhas prevent the dissipation of energy and carries it to the right places without damage

The best directors can get a complex performance, emblematized in iconic moments and symbolic inflections and gestures, from almost anyone.

Wait: Peeta, I'm sure of it) to rise up against their evil overlords in a gesture symbolic of Katniss's love conquering all.

The title is more of a symbolic gesture toward a society that represses intelligence until it self - destructs, and in that regard, the movie couldn't be more timely.

The Obama administration has recently urged Congress to add the issue to its already crowded 2010 agenda, even going so far as to include an additional $ 1 billion for K — 12 education in its budget proposal if the law is reauthorized this year (a wholly symbolic gesture, given that it is Congress that sets spending levels, but one that indicates the administration's priorities).

The Senate, in a largely symbolic gesture, recently voted to prohibit the U.S. Justice Department from taking «any sort of action» requiring the busing of students to schools other than those nearest their homes.

Summary: There are ways to engage students in decision - making including providing feedback on learning experiences, granting more choice in curriculum, making student involvement in school governance more than a symbolic gesture, including students on interview panels for teachers, and asking for suggestions on school - wide needs, problems and challenges.

In endorsing Hendy - Newbill, Hattie McFrazier and Rachel Johnson, UTLA contributed the maximum, $ 1,100, to each of their campaigns — a gesture more symbolic than significant.

So it solely is designed to punish the responsible pet owners, a symbolic gesture to distract from lack of leash law enforcement, the genuine problem in L.A..

In a final gesture, symbolic of the community leaving Redwood Creek Nursery, the circle of stumps under the buckeye were rolled away into the underbrush, to return to a more natural setting, and seeds of wild cucumber, blue wild rye, and red alder were scattered in the clearinIn a final gesture, symbolic of the community leaving Redwood Creek Nursery, the circle of stumps under the buckeye were rolled away into the underbrush, to return to a more natural setting, and seeds of wild cucumber, blue wild rye, and red alder were scattered in the clearinin the clearing.

So instead of asking our vacation guests to donate, we have committed to take a portion of what they already spend and give them a travelers» philanthropy gift card whereby they donate it back in a final symbolic gesture.

Gordon mentions that, «Criminals are a cowardly and superstitious lot,» which some have believed to be referencing the fact that the Batman we see isn't actually real, it's just a symbolic gesture to say that in one way or another Batman lives on.

The explosion at Wayne Manor could be a symbolic gesture, the death of the charade and the rebirth of the Batman in purer form, a man free of having to pretend to be something he isn't.

The eleven artists in Politicizing Space critique and subvert these purportedly aesthetic and artistic gestures by reinterpreting the symbolic mechanisms of control and asking the age - old question about the balance of power between art object and viewer.

Through symbolic gestures and imagery Biggers creates an experience that highlights often overlooked cultural and political narratives in American History.

It features: a series of black - and - white photographs of elderly actors by Liu Zheng that play with conventions of ethnographic and opera photography; two videos by Chen Qiulin that make use of traditional opera characters to respond to changes wrought by the Three Gorges Dam; The Forbidden City (Zijincheng) by Liu Wei, a lyrical video of theatrical «glove puppets» (budai kuilei) shown publicly for the first time; and videos by Cui Xiuwen that connect to opera in more oblique ways, through performative elements and symbolic props, gestures, and costumes.

Arman chose the earth, Pascal, words, while Klein chose the ethereal space surrounding the planet, which he then proceeded to sign: With this famous symbolic gesture of signing the sky, Klein had foreseen, as in a reverie, the thrust of his art from that time onwards a quest to reach the far side of the infinite.

Creating a symbolic gesture of inclusion, the artists created ceramic candle holders, designed and given to each house of worship in a public ceremony.

In a space of such personal poignancy, endowed with erotic charge, Burr's symbolic gestures reclaim and recuperate modernism's utopic aspirations from the failures of a racist and sexist past.

In Bee's new landscapes and interiors, expressionist and symbolic intensity run riot, with striking pop imagery, linear gestures, and layered painterly textures.

Ralph Eugene Meatyard (1925 — 1972) made his living as an optician in Lexington while creating enigmatic photographs featuring friends and family members posed in abandoned places, often wearing masks or enacting symbolic gestures.

The distinctive practice of Cy Twombly merges drawing, painting, writing, and symbolic gesture in the pursuit of a direct, intuitive form of expression.

The pews, having been removed recently in order to offer Muslim students a place to pray, are a symbolic gesture of religious tolerance.

Consistent with his past work, Haggerty maintains in these paintings a focus on the dynamic gesture of line that embodies not actual objects, but rather, actions or occurrences, like letters or other symbolic abstractions.

Like most serious art, this basic gesture found a symbolic way to illuminate an entire other world — in this case, one we'd like to see banished for good.

It's a nice symbolic gesture, but in itself it won't accomplish much in the way of avoiding carbon emissions.

«We have high hopes that the «yes we can» spirit of the administration, even if it hasn't been enough to get us climate legislation yet, will at least be equal to the task of this symbolic gesture,» McKibben explained in an e-mail.

They might slash funding to the U.N.'s climate efforts, a symbolic gesture of the United States» reluctance to lead in the upcoming international climate negotiations.

«In 2003, Cato scholars Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren blasted the Republican Energy Bill as «hundreds of pages of corporate welfare, symbolic gestures, empty promises, and pork - barrel projects».

Your point about AGW advocates still holding power over things like the IPCC and peer review is true enough though and that is where some highly symbolic gestures need to be made, just as in NI.

It can be about making people feel good (symbolic environmental gestures for example), or result from poor assessment of relative risks (people tend to fear the invisible risk like toxins in food more than the real risk of driving), or from «me to» behavior.