Sentences with phrase «merely symbolic»

On the one hand it is said human rights are seen as merely symbolic having no real impact on the daily lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Both proposals suffer some drawbacks from the point of view of meaningful, rather than merely symbolic, Indigenous input into the process.

«The legal system will never be able to respond to sexual assault, the laws against sexual assault are merely symbolic, rape is perfectly legal in this country.»

In the case at hand, Purely Creative and other traders were sending individually addressed letters, scratch - cards and other advertising inserts placed into newspapers and magazines, by which the consumer was informed that he had won a prize or equivalent benefit, the value of which could be either considerable or merely symbolic.

With a stated federal goal of reconciliation with Canada's First Nations, governments on both federal and provincial levels may find they will need to step up to the plate in order to make the talk less than merely symbolic.

Such action might be futile, merely symbolic, or extravagantly wasteful, but whatever it is, it can not meaningfully substitute for a repudiated national policy.

Your Energy Star appliances, LED lightbulbs, aluminum vehicles and weatherstripping are not merely symbolic efforts.

In addition to making history as the first sitting President to visit the American Arctic, this visit is not merely symbolic.

«They are impractical, old - fashioned, and of merely symbolic value,» he replies.

All partnerships are built on John Goodlad's concept of simultaneous renewal (1994) in that they are «mutually collaborative arrangements between equal partners working together to meet self - interests» related to technology integration, as opposed to «partnerships that are merely symbolic, one - sided, or noblesse oblige» (Sirotnik & Goodlad, 1998, p. vii).

In the three genuine alternative certification states with the largest total populations (California, Texas, and Florida), the index of representation was 0.56, 0.68, and 0.72, respectively, while in the three largest states with a merely symbolic or no alternative certification option (New York, Illinois, and Ohio), the index of representation was 0.38, 0.33, and 0.51, respectively.

Is this new pathway genuine or merely symbolic?

«The Handmaid's Tale» actress Ann Dowd shared that if the move was merely symbolic, she would have passed.

These programs alone will not create sweeping change, but they improve the chances for increasing diversity, provided they are not reduced to merely symbolic initiatives.

But the council's budget amendment was merely symbolic.

It is merely a symbolic gesture.

Peralta, clad in his signature DREAM Act T - shirt, which he sports over his chamber - dress - code - appopriate shirt and tie, told me during a CapTon interview last night that he and his fellow Latino lawmakers in both the Senate and Assembly are in discussions to reject the education bill, even though they are well aware their «no» votes will be merely symbolic.

Several conference members have since launched on - line petitions calling for the act's repeal — a quixotic and merely symbolic quest, since the governor clearly considers this a big win and has no intention of revisiting the matter.

At this point, the endorsement announcement game is merely symbolic for the comptroller, since he doesn't have a primary opponent and is therefore a lock on the nomination at the party's upcoming convention in Rye.

Merely symbolic establishment is wrong if — but only if — it infringes on equal citizenship.

This trifle transforms the honey cake from something that is merely symbolic on the table to a show stopping dessert.

These characteristics are not merely symbolic realities, but the very concrete, inner, dynamic realities of the imperial powers.

Although Lincoln is often praised for this remark by those who oppose the mixing of religion and politics, it contains three of the most controversial ideas in American politics: that it is legitimate to invoke the name of God within the realm of political discourse; that God's existence isn't merely symbolic, but that he is always right; and that since God takes sides on certain issues, some people will be divinely justified while others will stand in opposition not only to their political opponents but to the very Creator and Sustainer of the Universe.

To say that religious expression is «merely symbolic» implies that non-symbolic reference to mystery is the ideal.

The source of these difficulties, I believe, is his theory of analogy, the attempt, in connection with his neoclassical theory of religious language, to establish a third stratum of meaning, or set of concepts and terms, distinct both from the set of plainly formal, strictly literal concepts and terms, on the one hand, and from the set of plainly material, merely symbolic or metaphorical concepts and terms, on the other.

Clearly, it is one question whether certain psychical terms can be coherently established as theological analogies rather than frankly accepted as only symbols, while it is another and far more serious question whether any such terms at all can be coherently classified as truly analogical rather than merely symbolic.

But if any knowledge of God mediated by psychical concepts would leave open the possibility of its being merely symbolic instead of truly analogical, what could rule out this possibility?

I submit that arguments of this kind can have the force that Hartshorne takes them to have only if the whole of our knowledge of God, beyond our unavoidable experience of «the inclusive something,» can be derived from such knowledge as we have of ourselves, and hence is merely symbolic rather than truly analogical.

The «theopolitical» realism of the prophets led them to reject any merely symbolic fulfillment of the divine commission, to fight the division of community life into a «religious» realm of myth and cult and a «political» realm of civic and economic laws.

Zeus's bloody tears, then, may be a pictorial representation of solidarity with his human son but they can never be more than merely symbolic.

Without a body to call its «government» — the Lebanon war reduced the Palestine Liberation Organization from a leadership entity to a merely symbolic force — the Palestinians are deprived of any real hope that the land grab by Israel will be halted.

It was not merely symbolic; it was a heavy timber designed specifically as His instrument of death.

(Small, merely symbolic floors would not achieve this objective.)

If his successor pushes the same policy agenda minus the $ 50 - a-night Washington condo rentals, the benefit of getting rid of Pruitt will be merely symbolic.

Not exact matches

Symbolic events are instead regarded as merely manifestations of the universal and hence as not having meaning in themselves but only to the extent that they have lost their particularity.

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

In these studies Buber leads us on a narrow ridge between the traditionalist's insistence on the literal truth of the biblical narrative and the modern critic's tendency to regard this narrative as of merely literary or symbolic significance.

The other point to be clear about is that sacraments are not merely arbitrary rites agreed upon by social convention, but possessing no inherent symbolic power.

The increased awareness and control made possible by symbolic thought enriches human experience to such an extent that it can be said to represent a difference not merely in degree, but rather in kind, from the experience of other animals (BSI 212 - 13).

God's power to heal bodies shatters our prejudice that healing prayer is only for the more emotional, less intelligent folks; that the Bible stories of healing are merely «symbolic» and «not really true» and that the way the world is (comfortable as it is for us) is God's will.

However, this is not merely a matter of choosing the right external clothing for the feeling, since the concrete description of our experiences requires that we include the symbolic elements as constitutive for the experience.

Rather than merely pointing out the symbolic vistas along the expressway to an analysis of organizations, economics, motivations, and other «determinants» of religious belief, one sinks roots into the neighborhood of religious symbolism itself.

Far from being merely a neutral communication medium, television in America has become an integrated symbolic world filling the socially functional role demanded of it both by its viewers and its advertisers.

It is a symbolic move to be pro gun rights even though the matter struck down was uncontroversial and merely carries out a law that has been on the books under - enforced for decades.

Or will the shift from symbolic images to photo - realism be merely a cosmetic upgrade?

It is also a symbolic reminder that while the ebook marketplace may seem to be in a relatively stable place, that is merely an illusion.

Rather than merely resurrecting this forgotten language of the Fin de Siècle, Fox has found his own way of inverting the coded articulation of desire, playfully and subtly expressing a highly personal and symbolic pictorial language of concealment.

Stossel writes that even if America reaches Obama's «absurd» pledge to put 1,000,000 electric vehicles on the road by 2015, the impacts of climate change would only be delayed by «one hour,» according to Lomborg, and the mitigation measure was merely a «symbolic act.»

Even after years of working on the reform, of 125 yrs of «tradition» in B.C., public representation remains symbolic and not equally represented; which places the whole notion that the public interest matters into the category of merely a «door stop».

In short, the Uluru Statement calls for recognition of Australia's first peoples not in purely symbolic terms, to merely fix a historical wrong, but to permanently enshrine the First Nations Voice in the constitution.