Sentences with phrase «just symbolic»

The argument and the words used are just symbolic of larger issues.

Perkins victory was not just symbolic.

The domain name looks something like freecupcakes.com (just symbolic but not about cupcakes) and another party use the domain freecupcakes.co.uk.

The suggestion 1000 A.D. was just symbolic for any time before antrophogenic influence became important, so 1800 would also do.

Such a project would be of more than just symbolic significance.

«But it's far from just symbolic — the museum will benefit from huge reductions in energy bills and a solid return from the feed - in tariff.»

I'll be interested to know the magnitude of it and whether it suggests further progress or whether it's just symbolic.»

The 400ppm figure is just symbolic, but it's psychologically powerful, says Butler.

«It's not just a symbolic act,» Everett said.

What lies in between the physical proximity of the working studios and exhibition spaces turns out to be more than just a symbolic separation.

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.

Or, is this just a symbolic gesture to say, «You say you've got author power?

The mice (rats) are really just symbolic of all the things we would like to be able to control in our lives but can't.

If we start now — this is just a symbolic first kick — we may be able to do something in the next few years.

We want the choice of one of the Caatinga's most iconic species as the World Cup mascot to be more than just a symbolic one,» says José Alves Siqueira, one of the paper's authors and a Professor at the Federal University of the Valley of São Francisco.

«This is more than just a symbolic gesture, this literally reopens areas of the Capitol building that have been closed to the public for years,» Governor Cuomo said.

«This is a positive step but it needs to be more than just a symbolic act.

The police officer investigating the cash for honours scandal has insisted the arrest of Lord Levy yesterday was not just a symbolic act to show he was serious.

So it's not just symbolic, it has a real impact on girls» everyday lives and it negatively affects their aspirations.

So I'm going to vote that we stop with the cutesy gifts for women, and go to cash * or * things that really are just symbolic.

And because we parents are so concerned about their eating nutritious meals in adequate amounts, their power is actually real instead of just symbolic.

Do you think this was a good move for the Colts or just a symbolic firing to shake up things in what appears to be another dysfunctional front office?

Greg Barker, who has personally supported Meat Free Monday since the start of the year said: «Giving up meat one day a week is more than just a symbolic act and, if enough of us do it, will send a very powerful and loud message to world leaders.

The essence of the consecrated bread and wine is Christ, not just symbolic of Him — after all, if it were just symbolic, why would Christ pick eating bread as the way to remember Him?

thats why we bauptize but that is just symbolic.

The emotional cord being struck works whether God (or Santa) is real, or just a symbolic idea, yes?

Patriarch Sako has told European Union representatives unless the current conflict in the country is brought under control «Christians will be left with just a symbolic presence».

Not exact matches

These are important (and symbolic) hires for Uber as the company tries to prove it's no longer just a ride - sharing platform.

Maduro's nibble had some additional symbolic weight thanks to its timing, just days before the November 7 centenary of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.

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.

So it just isn't the CEO who is taking the symbolic pay cut to deal with tough times.

Beutner's hiring, just one week after Tribune split from the parent company, we were told, was symbolic of the new post-split Tribune.

If a Bible verse is detrimental to the cause, it is either; (i) taken out of context; (ii) symbolic, allegorical or otherwise means something other than it says; (iii) referring to another verse somewhere else that rectifies the error; (iv) a translation or copyist's error; (v) a mystery of God not discernible by we mere humans; or (vi) just plain magic.

I just don't see it as a big deal and I think it's a proper symbolic gesture of peace for those who died.

Persons who believe that etiquette is just following common sense in applying the mannerly injunction to be considerate of others fail to recognize that etiquette serves not only a regulative function, but also a symbolic and a ritual function.

When God commanded Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac, it was not just to see if Abraham was faithful enough to follow his commandment, it was also symbolic of the sacrifice God himself would make in sacrifice his beloved and begotten son, but unlike Abraham who was spared at the last moment from carrying through with the sacrifice of his son, God the father actually carried through with the sacrifice and although it wasn't permanent it still did not mean that there was no anguish, it doesn't matter how brief it was, if it was enough for divine and eternal beings to have to go through such heartache, all of which for our lowly sakes, in my view that is quite significant and I believe that such suffering is actually beyond mine or anyone else's comprehension.

Perhaps there is symbolic significance in the minister's being just a bit behind.

To all who think this is a isolated incident, that this isn't Islams method of gaining foothold in an area they would see as a symbolic victory, you just need to look at what is still happening in London where they are battling the «Mega Mosque».

This is just a direct correlative and «Symbolic Representation» of the C - R - A-P that is religion!

In the end this symbolic expression can have just so much meaning for us as we can give it through specifying that in our experience which bears it out.

if this is symbolic - then go to your local jail and just do this symbolic act on feet of 10 persons - and then talk to me.

Paul seems to talking about the conflict between those who thought that eating the meat was a literal ingesting of demonic things and those who held that these meals were just ordinary food not actual occult substance and only symbolic if you believed them to be.

Since 1980 Reagan has taken «profamily» and «ProAmerica» stands on specific social issues of crucial moral and symbolic importance to the electorate's cultural conservatives, not just to fundamentalist Christians.

Jesus wasn't doing anything symbolic or sacramental, he was just doing a necessary job that no - one else had deigned to do.

Once we see through the logical mistakes that underlie the cosmology on which the theory of projection has parasitically fed, we can begin to locate in a fresh way just where the symbolic expression of religion fits into the structure of the evolving universe and how the language of religion relates to that of science.

Some scholars have called this mysterious young man a symbolic representative of the just - scattered disciples (who also «fled,» as would the three women from the tomb).

The tradition of just war analysis guards against the troubling idea of killing to send a message or for any other symbolic purpose.

Within such a paradigm we would begin to analyse an issue such as media and violence in terms of its effects first on the broader symbolic environment that is needed for constructive social life, rather than just on isolated and selected individual actions.

His faith was just as strong with a symbolic belief.

It was a Jewish ceremonial washing, and just like all of the water baptisms, it was symbolic.