Sentences with phrase «symbol of authority of»

This mace, a ceremonial symbol of authority of the town's most prominent citizens, was originally made in the late AD 1400s for Stratford - upon - Avon's Guild of the Holy Cross.

Aregbesola added that the Parliament is the symbol of authority of the people and so the fallen soldiers «being celebrated today in the midst of the people for their gallantry and supreme sense of patriotism.»

Recall that some hoodlums on April 18 disrupted Senate plenary and stole the Mace - the symbol of authority of the Senate.

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Trans Mountain has become a symbol of our complete inability to get things done in the face of legitimate authority.

Verse 10 says it is a symbol that a woman is under the authority of a man, who in turn is under the authority of Christ.

The church removes any symbol of authority from the person... they have no special status in the church that they could exploit by trusting members of the church.

Kirk maintains they are necessarily male (and Jewish) because they are «a proleptic [anticipatory] symbol of the coming kingdom», a divine reconstruction of the twelve tribes of Israel, founded on the twelve sons of Jacob; although he adds this does not preclude «the possibility that Jesus has other ends in mind... a church with Peter at its head and the twelve apostles as the foundation stones of its order and authority» (p. 43).

They search for new forms of community but tend to be wary of authority figures and particularly of leaders... The young neotraditionalists also have an almost intuitive attraction to liturgy, ritual, and symbol as forms of knowledge that complement the dominant rational, scientific one.»

14.33] a sign of forgiveness; the feast is a sign of rejoicing; the robe marks him as an honoured guest; the ring is a signet ring and a symbol of authority; the shoes mark him as a free man, not a slave.

Religion becomes idolatrous when the symbols of perfection are worshiped as though they were the ultimate itself: when founders, prophets, and seers are deified, when infallible authority is ascribed to certain organizations and books, and when the performance of rites is taken as a guarantee of salvation.

In our generation there is danger and hope — danger that these noncognitive accouterments will lose their aesthetic harmony and hypnotic power when integrated with the basic prehensions of science, and be reverted into impotent and empty symbols, jarring, ugly, and without force in final satisfactions: hope that the power of Jesus as lure will reassert itself in an aesthetic context devoid of supernaturalism, a context such that (the language now picks up echoes of van Buren) the vision of Jesus, the free man, free from authority, free from fear, «free to give himself to others, whoever they were «1 — such that this vision in its earthly, human purity will lure our aims to a harmonious concrescence, integrating scientific insight and moral vision and producing a modern, intensely fulfilling human satisfaction.

They will sue to block a religious symbol from being put up on public grounds (the WTC is owned by the Port Authority of NY and NJ, therefore, public grounds).

Faith, in the end, rests not on the authority of a pristine set of signs but on a community that offers in its symbols a distinctive identity, an overarching story, a collective self - image.

One of the signs that a bureaucratic organization is in serious trouble is that its priorities become displaced from carrying out its original function to protecting the symbols, even if they have become largely meaningless, of its authority (as distinct from real power).

Since it is a part of his life from early years, there is little chance that alcohol can be used as a symbol of revolt against authority during adolescence.

The Conseil begins by stating that laïcité forbids «any display by public authorities of signs and symbols showing a public recognition or a preference for a given religion.»

11:16,» b) Christian feminists don't like the teaching that «a wife ought to have a symbol of authority on her head» and try to get around it.

Sermons are cultural artifacts wherein structures of authority and symbol are revealed, subverted, lampooned, or refurbished.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a U.S. - based Jewish group, called on religious authorities to declare the demonstrators» use of Holocaust symbols a desecration of God's name.

Questions such as whether the language of «faith» has any authority in a scientific age, or whether mind and life are reducible to atoms and molecules, whether only the tangible is real, whether the human person is anything more than a complex physico - chemical mechanism, whether we are free or determined, whether there is any «objective» truth to the symbols and myths of religion — all of these questions are asked at all only because what is fundamentally at issue is whether there is an ultimate context that gives meaning to cosmic process and significance to our lives in this process.

In a similar fashion, the Revivalism of the Great Awakening transformed certain of the central symbols of Puritanism and introduced new values and beliefs which questioned not only the authority and function of Crown and Parliament but also the traditional role and power of established clergy and magistrate alike.

Such a frame of mind, the guest ventured, might not come easily to that symbol of authority, the football coach.

During this match, there was a swastika symbol which was seen in the grass of the Poljud Stadium and this has initiated a chain of consequences which is still being investigated by UEFA but it could end with Croatia being dismissed from the football tournament depending on the results that emerge from the investigations of the football governing authority UEFA.

It was a symbol of society's struggle with arbitrary authority and the evolution from one stage in society to another.

He won the 1989 Nobel Peace prize, and his status in the West as a symbol of peace continues to infuriate the Chinese authorities.

On Wednesday April 18, 2018, some thugs invaded the Senate Chambers in Abuja, seized its symbol of authority - the mace, and escaped from the National Assembly premises.

The Iron Lady famously wielded the accessory both as a practical place to store state papers and as a symbol of her authority.

When the New York Post reported in late May that Governor Cuomo was planning to can Port Authority executive director Christopher Ward, the man widely credited with transforming the symbol of public - private incompetence known as Ground Zero into a functional development site, the cries of disapproval were near instantaneous.

WHEREAS, Orange County Local Law No. 11 of 1999, entitled «A Local Law Regulating the Use of the Official Name, Seal and Authority of the County of Orange,» prohibits the use of any official county position, or title or the use of name, seal, flag, title, letterhead, symbols, property, facilities or resources of the government of the County of Orange for any private or «non-county purpose» or in connection with any private or non-county function,...,» without prior authorization.

«Even until now, the military has not returned the symbol of authority they took away from the Egbesu Shrine and other valuables in Oporoza community during the May 28, 2016 invasion.

«The snatch of mace which is our symbol of democratic authority is unacceptable, it is a national reproach and treasonable.

In some countries, scholars are also subject to violence not specifically for their individual views or actions but simply because of their connection to a higher education institution, which may be viewed as an easy target with predictable schedules, «a proxy for state authority or... a symbol of a modern, education - based society,» the report says.

It was a powerful symbol of divine authority, and each pharaoh wore one on his brow as an amulet.

Whitson — who will be the first woman to command the space station — will be armed with a «kamcha» — a traditional Kazakh horse - whip, which a Russian space official advised her to take «as a symbol of a commander's authority on board».

Again, in Asian culture, the dragon is not evil but it is the symbol of power and authority.

More interesting is the story of the festival as a symbol of alternative living and political protest, its frontline position between authority and dissent represented by policemen running across fields and skirmishes with travellers in the early 1990s.

This ritual, which has been held since the founding of the nation, decides which faction will hold military and political authority, and protect the Queen, the living symbol of the realm.

Topics include: - Science and Religion - General worksheets on World Religions (Islam, Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism)- Symbols in Religion - Authority - Jesus - Rites of Passage - Prayers - Religious text

Quotes from the «Last Supper» in the Bible are used as sources of wisdom and authority to get students to explore why religious symbols have survived thousands of years and are important to Christians today.

Topics covered: - Religion and Conflict Key Concepts God and Suffering Corrymeela Forgiveness and Reconciliation - Religion and the State Key Concepts Duties Authority Punishment Capital Punishment - Religious Expression Key Concepts Expressing faith through what is worn Expressing faith through symbols Expressing faith through actions - Religion and Medicine Key Concepts Sanctity of Life Abortion IVF Euthanasia How do doctors make decisions?

• Civics: Importance of rules; rights, responsibilities, and choices; leadership and authority; contributions of people important to the American political system; United States symbols and practices.

Another sat in her chair, which she said took away her symbol of authority and seemed to disrupt the class.

Subverting the authority of the signature, Susie reduced the artist to a brand, alongside his use of logos and symbols such as Nike, Samsung, TV Guide, dollar signs, and skulls.

For a recent exhibition, McArthur questioned normative authority in a series of blank public sign works, reconfiguring and removing the language and symbols from existing signs to create an intentionally opaque series of directives that confront the prescriptive power of the format.

«A lot of times [tomahawks] were a symbol of office and authority, but if they had to, they would use it.»

Native American headdresses, Roman wreaths, and Paleolithic spears adorn rock singers who destroy computers in capes and heels; symbols of authority mix with no regard for temporal boundaries.

Here, and in works such as wonky and jive (both 2014), she challenges the rigidity and authority of the modernist grid by creating a symbol of her own life path — a kind of tributary or labyrinth through which she charts her own course.

There, in place of an expected symbol of authority, the word BOO — painted in the Aboriginal dot painting style commonly used to obscure secret information — glows and gradually fades until the next flash of light (ning).

In the same way that Gustave Courbet's work challenged the traditions of painting by depicting ordinary people on a heroic scale, Wheat seeks to reapply the idea of the large - scale tapestry, hung primarily behind royal thrones and used as symbols of authority during medieval times, by re-contextualizing their use and imagery.

Levine's appropriation series became a symbol of post-modern movement and highly - discussed theme, both praised and attacked as a feminist takeover of patriarchal authority.