Sentences with phrase «n't symbolic actions»

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

But can't symbolic actions be valuable?

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

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

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.

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.

Jesus» actions, then, are symbolic of adoption; abandoned children are to be brought into the church and raised by Christian parents, not in order to exploit their labor potential but because the biblical God is one with a special concern for the poor, the homeless, the weak and the abandoned.

The New Oxford American Dictionary defines metaphor as «a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable... a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else.»

After all, he seems not to come from a people that treats the writings of the prophet Hosea with due reverence, but he nonetheless has chosen this moment to perform a symbolic version of the actions of God toward Israel as depicted in the sixth chapter.

Such commitment in any but the simplest, thoroughly ascribed society must be to a «generalized symbolic medium,» not to specific norms.16 Given the integrative potential of such a generalized symbolic medium — of action to action, policy to policy, person to person — the question can be raised whether in a single society more than one such medium can exist.

Our laureates would not stand here today if their ideas and actions would not have a symbolic value for the African organic movement.

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

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.

While not a substitute for practical action, I'm a big fan of the symbolic, so this next one is pretty cool: The UNEP has just announced that a one - time train link between Kyoto and Copenhagen will

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.

While not a substitute for practical action, I'm a big fan of the symbolic, so this next one is pretty cool: The UNEP has just announced that a one - time train link between Kyoto and Copenhagen will be opened.

My point is that, given that Alberta is not in a position comparable to the US or even perhaps the EU to drag the rest of the world behind them to a strong global outcome, any action we take in Alberta is symbolic and trivial and we are being pushed into actions for political reasons or by groups looking to make symbolic gains.

As McKinley pointed out, it appears evident that the Paris conference did not «trigger global action» as McCarthy had argued that it would in July, but that has not stopped her from pursuing her latest symbolic argument for the EPA regulations.

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

«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.»

The Court of Appeal allowed the action and awarded Jones $ 10,000 in «symbolic» or «moral damages» indicating that Tsige's actions did not cause Jones any financial loss.

It was not only a loss of a particularly apt symbolic moment, it also obscured the Government's own commitment to concrete action in health, housing, employment and education by presenting it as an alternative to any symbolic gesture of apology.

However symbolic recognition measures — such as in the preamble to the Victorian Constitution, flying of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags, and protocols acknowledging Traditional Owners — have not been met with enough meaningful action.