Sentences with phrase «symbol of pride for»

One hundred and twenty five years ago the Statue and Monument at Columbus Circle was paid for primarily from contributions from our community and has been an enduring symbol of pride for Italian Americans who suffered greatly from bias and discrimination.

Functioning as a compensatory patriarchal figure for the whole community, the minister often became superpatriarchal, a symbol of pride for his people to whom they could transfer the privileges denied to them.

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In 1999, Reverend Jerry Falwell accused the character Tinky Winky of being «a gay role model» for children because he carried a handbag and had triangular antenna, which he suggested represented the gay pride symbol.

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

Juventus's blow came when Real Madrid's arch-rival and symbol of Catalan pride, Barcelona FC, had a runaway lead in the La Liga which, for all practical purposes now, is too huge for the second - placed club to bridge.

«Because issues like segregated schools and housing, lack of jobs and opportunity — symbols of history that are a source of pride for some and pain for others — these are not tangential to peace; they're essential to it.

The beloved breed is seen as a symbol of loyalty and national pride for South Korea.

In «The Notion of Family,» Gramps is the symbol of the Great Migration North and the pride of working for U.S. Steel.

Standing tall as symbols for their states, official state trees are points of pride from coast to coast.