Sentences with phrase «many symbolic actions»

Unilateral symbolic action by the Federal government has not affected change in China in the past, and a similar course action by the government of Ontario is likely to produce a similar disappointing result.

After any pollution or sexual intercourse, a Muslim must take an obligatory bath; in case there is no water, a symbolic action is necessary.

Mulligan, in this symbolic action, expresses Joyce's critique of Christianity: a combination of sadism, the razor, and narcissism, the mirror... Continue Reading»

For weeks a sizable procession marched to the music of drums, bells and cymbals as similar symbolic actions spread rapidly throughout the region.

The long day of teaching, culminating in the impressive symbolic action, may have been something like a last appeal to the Galileans to understand and embrace his true purpose.

The Hebrew prophets who were his predecessors were accustomed to perform symbolic actions to reinforce their words — «acted parables» as they are sometimes called.

This Roman custom of raising the newborn infant probably underlies Jesus» symbolic action in our Gospel text for today.

Cf. Turner's introduction to Edward R. Spence, ed., Forms of Symbolic Action (Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 1970).

Greater Love Has No Man The washing of the disciples» feet, then, is closely associated in meaning with Jesus» symbolic action with the bread and the wine in the synoptic accounts of the last supper.

It includes both the community's cultic or ritual life (repetitive, symbolic actions expressive of the community's sacred story) and its people's daily work (vocation or «profession») in the world.

Of special importance today is the expression of solidarity among the churches crossing political frontiers and the symbolic actions of obedience of one part of the body of Christ that enhance the missionary work of other sectors of the Church.

Would such preaching actually encourage pro-choice or would it short circuit the choice process in an adolescent who is unduly pressured by the symbolic action of the pulpit's assurance?

Sometimes this can be done through «symbolic action».

The prophetic message, whether by word or vision or symbolic action, is of violence and destruction, doom, and Jerusalem's sure end.

[21] After baptism they would rise from «the tomb»,» [having] submerged yourselvesthree times in the water and emerged: by this symbolic action you were secretly re-enacting the burial of Christ three days in the tomb.»

With their use of symbols and symbolic actions, the liturgical element of all ceremonies reveals the intimate association between religion and public oath - taking.

It was a symbolic action which expressed both the interior feelings of the one offering and God's response to the prayer.

For the rest, substantially a unit from the priest - prophet Zechariah, the first six chapters contain eight symbolic visions and one symbolic action; while chapters 7 and 8 comprise historical narrative.

The law was given through Moses, but Moses performed symbolic actions pointing towards Christ and actually wrote about him (John 1:17; 3:14; 5:46).

The context, artifacts, and symbolic actions associated with prenatal care function to stack or layer meanings for participants by providing a text and subtext that are simultaneously both literal and metaphorical.

But Morton Grove Park District Commissioner Dan Ashta's symbolic actions have spurred an ideological tug of war with a local veterans group, which recently halted cash donations to the Park District until its entire board stands for the pledge at park board meetings.

This symbolic action carried with it a serious message: that the banking system needed to pay attention to the wisdom contained within these books if it was once again to serve the common good.

«Symbolic action won't cut it,» said Teachout.

This symbolic action represents seeing - off the Lord Ganesha towards his home while he takes with him all the misfortunes of man.

For example, I think of painting as a stage set on which symbolic action is performed.

By creating a «theater of cinema» in which the audience can be immersed, Marcin brings awareness through a hyperbolic interpretation of relatable scenarios, enacting symbolic actions, catalyzing the visibility of hidden codes, and mirrors the ambiguities of human behavior and psychological mechanism.

The works in this exhibition were chosen for the innovative ways in which the artists engaged with ritual — including through studio art - making and artistic practices that use symbolic actions.

I have some faith in symbolic actions.»

The head of Symbolic Action, a media investment firm, and prominent collector of contemporary art is seated in the offices of L.A.'s Hammer Museum in Westwood, where he is on the board of overseers.

I get kind of tired of symbolic actions, but what the heck.

But can't symbolic actions be valuable?

Divestment would at best be a symbolic action only, without meritorious direct effects.

The problem is that symbolic actions often substitute for truly effective actions by fooling ourselves into thinking we are doing something meaningful about a problem when we are not.

But can't symbolic actions be merited for moral crusades?

Trump's decision, and his inane rationale for it, is, in the end, what one can expect after decades of climate activists» supporting prioritizing symbolic action...

«The problem, Harvard Professor Robert N. Stavins wrote for the Wall Street Journal, is: «Symbolic actions often substitute for truly effective actions by allowing us to fool ourselves into thinking we are doing something meaningful about a problem when we are not.»

Tianqing Zhu: In my point of view, it is a symbolic action.

Sputnik: We give our data away with everything we do (driving licenses, card payments, loyalty cards), will deleting Facebook increase our data privacy, or is it more of symbolic action?

Those who argue against symbolic actions miss the fundamental linkage between the symbolic and the practical.

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«I do not think it is worth sacrificing future investment returns for an action that is simply symbolic,» he wrote.

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.

S&P's action, largely symbolic, coincided with the latest round of selling pressure, but it did not cause it.

But the actions — though highly symbolic — had been widely expected for Trump who accused China of «raping» the U.S. economy during the presidential campaign and threatened to label the country a «currency manipulator.»

But neither the action itself nor its symbolic interpretation produces the effect it claims - that of benefiting life - making the ritual a violation of the deep convention protecting human life.

Jesus was able to «grasp the logos of reality as such and to re-present it through symbolic speech and action,» and this in a normative fashion.

However we take the doctrine of the Trinity, as ontological affirmation or as symbolic expression, it is essential to the way in which the New Testament sees the relation of God's love to his redemptive action in Jesus Christ.

Man is uniquely the creature of meaning, and thus is «able to grasp the logos of reality as such and to represent it through symbolic speech and action.

Moreover, for the ministers of the Reformed churches «preaching» was a symbolic word; it meant not only public discourse but every action through which the gospel was brought home and men were moved to repent before God and to trust in him.

Persons whose symbolic universes emphasized the role of supernatural forces tended not to believe that society could be reformed through human action and refrained from experimenting personally with alternative lifestyles.

These sometimes strange and always dramatic actions of the prophets charged with dire symbolic meaning are never merely symbols.