Sentences with phrase «national symbol»

Peace movements fail because they identify with such widely approved national symbols and themes as to deny themselves a clear identity.

The bald eagle's recovery is perhaps the best known example of how our environmental laws worked to restore not just a resource but our very national symbol.

Use it for texting, celebrating, or just studying national symbols.

The Charter is one of the most important national symbols of Canada, outranking even the flag, the national anthem, the RCMP, and even more than hockey.

In «Hyphenated Lives» (2015), a collection of artworks that resemble zoological and botanical drawings, Kallat has created hybrid birds, animals, trees and flowers by artistically fusing species appropriated as national symbols in conflicted countries — symbolically unifying the divided nations which are their habitat, through fictive wildlife.

• Article 8 about national symbols in Catalonia: The term «nation» doesn't have any other meaning that the one present on the Constitution for «nationality», acknowledged in the article 2 of the Magna Carta and without question about the «indissoluble unity of the Spanish Nation»

Art historian and visual culturist Camila Maroja that graduated from Duke University comments «The pieces of this exhibition appropriate and transform old and new national symbols such as the Statue of Liberty, the portrait of Ulises Heureaux, the ears of Mickey Mouse, the paintings of the artist act as a suggestive map, on which we can reconfigure our experience of the Americas.»

Love Canal 35 years later: The Love Canal neighborhood in Niagara Falls, N.Y., remains a powerful national symbol of the chemical industry's tainted legacy.

On the shores of Lake Managua, Momotombo volcano is one of the most important national symbols of Nicaragua.

The bald eagle is a lousy choice for national symbol on at least two counts» he looks warlike (thus offending warm - and - fuzzies) but is really a wimp species (which would offend hard - liners, if they only knew).

Outside circles of top public health officials and what are known as lactivists — advocates for breastfeeding — most Americans remain unaware that Obama breastfed her daughters, now national symbols of healthy children.

As a final note, in many parts of the world, following WWII, demonstrations of reverence towards national symbols such as flags and the like have been somewhat taboo and creepy to Europeans.

Added to the fact that it is a highly loaded question (even someone massively anti-NHS will struggle to disagree with «Whatever problems the NHS may have, its commitment to free treatment for everyone means it is still one of our great national symbols») and the poll is pretty much meaningless now.

Through her installations and video works, Echakhch critically examines socio - political issues brought about by globalization, the way national symbols are used, as well as cultural differences and social phenomena, without however assuming a cautionary or rhetorical stance.

Once they know the ugly truth, most fair - minded Australians would find this abuse of our unique and beloved national symbol hard to stomach.

In a country with arguably no common national symbols, Christianity is one of the few commitments nearly all South Africans share.

Canada's national symbol matches wits with rangers and local citizenry in a friendly war between man and beast

The sanctuary is home to a great blue heron rookery, and bald eagles have been known to nest there, as the once - endangered national symbol continues its inspiring rebound.

«The space shuttle is a highly visible national symbol and a large commitment by the American taxpayers,» Wayne Hale, the space agency's former shuttle chief and STS - 108 lead flight director, said at the time.

For any Art Bell listening, «X-Files» watching conspiracy theorist out there, the concept of hidden meanings placed in national symbols by the Masons is nothing new.

So as not to alienate potential international markets, it takes place in a world denuded of obvious national symbols, such as the American flag, and the only products onscreen are those that have paid for their placement.

Our furnishings reflect New Zealands national symbol «the fern».

At Petzel, Longo looks to the U.S. Capitol building and the American flag, two highly polarizing national symbols.

Additionally, Hopper's paintings became a close - to - home national symbol of urban alienation within art making practices, one of the first references that come to mind whenever a discussion concerning artistic depictions of loneliness occurs.

Using pandas, beloved Chinese national symbol, as his own spokesperson, indirectly critical of the establishment and society, Bandi wonderfully plays with the boundaries separating art, advertising, and political activism.

The result, Great, Big, Wide, Biggest, a huge typographical collage of advertising jargon in Union Flag red white and blue, helped to turn the colours of the British national symbol into a key part of the visual grammar of «Swinging London».

A ghostly, carved - marble gas mask, like a deaths - head emerging from a tomb, relates to the perpetual pollution experienced in the Chinese capital city, while the massing of bicycles also addresses a stereotypical national symbol in an uncompromising and unconventional way.

She has been known to reflect on generic and overused national symbols and the ways in which they have been appropriated to construct personal narratives and collective histories.

The Statue of Liberty stands as a testimony and national symbol near Ellis Island from where 12 million immigrated to the state and sprung an estimated 100 million descendents throughout the country.

Edinburgh Castle is a powerful national symbol and part of Old and New Towns of Edinburgh World Heritage Site.

The Charter is one of the most important national symbols of...

A YouGov survey for the Fabians found that 70 % of people think it is one of Britain's «great national symbols», while only 25 % of people think it was a «good idea for its time».

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This year has provided us with a new national symbol: Martin Luther King, Jr., Day.

The elephant has long been an important spiritual, cultural and national symbol in Thailand.

«France has been hit on its national day,» he continued, adding «our national symbol, because human rights are linked and attacked by fanatics.»

Dan Price, the Gravity Payments CEO who has become a national symbol of corporate good after raising his employee pay this year, is denying claims in a Bloomberg Businessweek story that he physically abused his ex-wife while they were married.

The chain's ubiquity has made it a national symbol, the place politicians on the campaign trail book their photo ops, that spawned a term (doubledouble) in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary.

Canadians are passionate about their national symbols, from the maple leaf and hockey to universal health care.

I remember a lot of national symbols that were used to mark the attacks.

I just find it strange to say it became a «national symbol» if I've never heard of it.

Nope... «In god we trust» is printed right next to the picture of an EAGLE — our national symbol, and according to the bible, an «abomination.»

But hers is a national symbol nevertheless.