Sentences with phrase «powerful symbol for»

A powerful symbol for continuing education, the GRI has made a difference in Granger's career from the get - go.

It serves as a building block of life in the tiniest particles of our universe, and many cultures have been using it as a powerful symbol for thousands of years.

Is it a gesture toward inclusiveness in the United States (and a powerful symbol for America's freedom of religion)?

A vault is a recommended, helpful, and powerful symbol for students.

Having these three intelligent and ambitious men working on school improvement was a powerful symbol for change.

«So in a sense his conviction in the existence of mapinguari has as much to do with seeking a powerful symbol for the need to conserve the Amazon as it does with his conviction that this animal really exists.

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But then UNHCR approached me to ask if I'd organise an art project for World Refugee Day to transform refugee tents into works of art because they are such a powerful symbol of displacement.

In his powerful book The Non-Violent Cross James Douglass makes a great deal of the resurrection, but for him the resurrection is only a symbol of oppressed people's awakening to the power of nonviolence: «Man becomes God when Love and Truth enter into man, not by man's power but by raising him to Power, so that revolution in love is revealed finally as the Power of resurrection» (pp. 23 - 24).

Because the relation between symbols and the things they stand for is arbitrary, symbolic etiquette is a powerful means of communication.

A name for the Hebrews was a powerful symbol.

Indeed, the act that both brings new life into being and gives the most intense pleasure to all living creatures is a powerful symbol of the desire for unity with others that is shared by all forms of life.

These two characters represent the mixture of evil and good in human beings but also, in their love for Lyra and their sacrificial acts, a powerful symbol of redemption and transformation in the face of evil.

Without knowing the great lion, and more importantly, the one for whom Aslan is a powerful symbol, it is inconceivable that they can get Lewis right.

I would go even further, as I'm sure Pike and Stringfellow would 50 years later, that even these terms, including God, Jesus, and the implied Spirit, are powerful symbols that must be continually re-examined and re-articulated for the sake of the contemporary mind.

has continued to be central for me and because the crucified Christ remains a powerful symbol f transforming grace, I persist in thinking of myself as Christian — however liberal and humanistic.

In the utterly tragic figure of old Eli and in the loss of the ark, the symbol of God's presence, from the central sanctuary at Shiloh (probably destroyed by the Philistines in this time), we are further prepared for the establishment of monarchy in Israel: it was Philistine aggression, far too powerful to be checked by the resources of a loose tribal confederation, which precipitated the chain of events leading through Saul and David to a unified and extensive, if short - lived, Israelite kingdom.

A desire for mastery and power also motivates people to drive powerful cars, to fly in powerful planes (especially corporate jets, which they «control» more directly), to carry impressive brief cases (a symbol of social power), and to engage in «power» breakfasts.

For those of you who are confused why the symbol of a cross can be so powerful to some people (powerful as in a negative connotation), think of it this way: wouldn't you be offended and wouldn't you want to shield your children from a place with swastika banners hanging all over the place?

The logo is a powerful visual symbol meant to evoke a meaningful and positive image in the minds of our customers and to provide a great foundation for AHPD's future.

The GI Symbol is a powerful tool for quickly and reliably making healthier food choices when grocery shopping.

Instead of being a symbol for the black experience, Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan) gets to do something just as powerful: be his own person.

Voting for mascots teaches about elections, inspires fun Three schools have used a powerful process that mirrors the presidential electoral process to choose candidates and vote for a school mascot — a representative symbol that will encourage, inspire, and sometimes entertain them for years to come.

There have been two recent events that have been much discussed and that might tarnish this persona and that I think are revelatory about some of the features of contemporary school reform — for which Ms. Rhee is a powerful symbol.

That's because Chrysler's Dodge Durango and Chrysler Aspen Hybrids will pair up a hybrid gas - electric system — the symbol of automotive virtue — with a powerful Hemi engine, which is best known for winning car races.

Your logo works for you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and is the most powerful and visible symbol of your veterinary hospital.

Automatic writing was an important vehicle for action painters Franz Kline (in his black and white paintings), Jackson Pollock, Mark Tobey and Cy Twombly, who used gesture, surface, and line to create calligraphic, linear symbols and skeins that resemble language, and resonate as powerful manifestations from the collective unconscious.

Christian Marclay «s 1994 Moebius Loop is a powerful visual symbol for the artist's longstanding discourse on music, art and the uncharted histories of objects.

For money is a powerful symbol of cultural worth.

As for Newman, he became popular for communicating messages through a single powerful symbol that he referred to as «zip» paintings.

Other important contributors to action painting include: Mark Tobey noted for his White Writing style of calligraphic gesturalism; Franz Kline, an artist whose works include colour field compositions as well as vigorous gestural work, sometimes compared to gigantically enlarged fragments of Chinese calligraphy); Robert Motherwell (in his series entitled Elegy to the Spanish Republic, and his powerful black and white paintings); Cy Twombly (in his gestural works based on calligraphic, linear symbols) and Adolph Gottlieb (noted for his abstract surrealist series including Pictographs, Imaginary Landscapes and Bursts).