Sentences with phrase «symbolic gestures»

We are at a cross roads today where we need to focus on substance rather than symbolic gestures which do very little to improve conditions in our communities and the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

«We are at a crossroads where we need to focus on substance rather than symbolic gestures, which do very little to improve the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Granted, but it makes no sense to oppose an ETS for Australia because it doesn't contain such symbolic gestures.

«If people want to waste money and do symbolic gestures and start ratcheting down their cities» energy use and emissions and start putting in mandates for energy that doesn't produce the same for fossil fuels — more power to them.

Regardless, the underlying argument, that now is the time for symbolic gestures (and mandates and more subsidies) because solar can be the miracle breakthrough technology solving our energy needs shows a deep commitment to recycling.

Fighting global warming with symbolic gestures will certainly not change this.

Your point about AGW advocates still holding power over things like the IPCC and peer review is true enough though and that is where some highly symbolic gestures need to be made, just as in NI.

«In 2003, Cato scholars Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren blasted the Republican Energy Bill as «hundreds of pages of corporate welfare, symbolic gestures, empty promises, and pork - barrel projects».

A sense of magic realism permeates the images, which range from shots of Aztec ruins, rooster fights, and street footage to portraits of the artist performing symbolic gestures meant to convey Wojnarowicz's sense of powerlessness over the purposeful indifference of the American government and public to the AIDS epidemic.

Ralph Eugene Meatyard (1925 — 1972) made his living as an optician in Lexington while creating enigmatic photographs featuring friends and family members posed in abandoned places, often wearing masks or enacting symbolic gestures.

In a space of such personal poignancy, endowed with erotic charge, Burr's symbolic gestures reclaim and recuperate modernism's utopic aspirations from the failures of a racist and sexist past.

Through symbolic gestures and imagery Biggers creates an experience that highlights often overlooked cultural and political narratives in American History.

Most of the traditional rituals include the use of symbolic gestures.

The most hackneyed standbys of coming - to - America humor — the discovery of pizza, confusion about relationships and religions — get trotted out, and the selfish J.B. has to repeatedly redeem himself (to Ash, Rinku, Dinesh, and Brenda, the generic love interest played by Bell) through symbolic gestures.

iii - Mudra (Seal, lock): The symbolic gestures of the hands where the fingers are held together denoting positions which close the body apertures Bandha (Bondage, joining together): When prana is made to flow in the yogi's body, employing bandhas prevent the dissipation of energy and carries it to the right places without damage

The accusations of bias against the fight against corruption are increasing by the day and critics easily find ready examples to argue that the fight is only cosmetic and showy and government is only making do with a few symbolic gestures as proof that it is serious.

Every spring, Republican office holders make these stupid symbolic gestures (i.e. Confederate History Month) to demonstrate how macho they are to their wingnut constituents.

Other symbolic gestures included custom - made furniture, a walk over a footbridge and the food on the menu at Friday night's banquet — attended by the leaders» wives.

Nationalistic rave harboured within collective groups has often found expression in symbolic gestures.

Throughout the history of the Middle East, emotions such as humiliation, shame, hubris, vengeance and various symbolic gestures were and continue to be quite visible.

Apparently, doing away with «Fort Pataki» by opening up the second floor and removing the concrete barriers from around the state Capitol — admittedly both largely symbolic gestures by Cuomo — wasn't enough for Paladino.

With this in hand, we can then ask which better explains the observable pattern of internal deliberations, official discourse, symbolic gestures, and even the nature and timing of substantive foreign policy actions in the case in question.

Bridging the divide takes more than symbolic gestures, wrote D. L. Mayfield, author of Assimilate or Go Home, who works with refugees and immigrants in Portland.

The whole rationale of symbolic gestures requires that they disrupt and disturb the secular order.

Our culture is full of other symbolic gestures for showing such a break.

But symbolic gestures can effect significant healing.

Life imitates art, as we increasingly see in our crafted mediaworld of images and symbolic gestures.

There's nothing wrong with symbolic gestures, per se.

His pontificate is marked by symbolic gestures and simple words that compel the attention and respect of the world.

Some commentators have compared the entry, the cleansing of the temple, and the last supper to the symbolic gestures of the Old Testament prophets.

Members of the group SNAP (The Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests) planned to hold signs and hand out flyers urging Roman Catholic cardinals to stop making symbolic gestures about abuse and instead meet with victims and give case files to the authorities.

And also, if the OT prophets were so good, how is it that such a commonplace prophecy, like Jesus's entry to Jerusalem on donkey takes prophetic priority over such major events as the Last Supper or the Foot Washing scene, an event that at least one commentary listed as one of the most important symbolic gestures ever made by Jesus.

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Among some symbolic gestures, such as formally ending the Korean War, one of Moon's priorities will be to reach a consensus on denuclearization.

In 1997, Robinson's uniform number, 42, was retired across all of MLB, a symbolic gesture unmatched in the history of American team sports.

«He's often absent, but when he shows up it's some sort of an over-the-top symbolic gesture to assert his relevance when it doesn't really accomplish anything and people have to say, «What was the point of that?

Deleting my account altogether would be a symbolic gesture, one I'm not sure is worth the tradeoffs.

He backed it up with the bold symbolic gesture of clearing the wall of patents that once graced the lobby of Tesla's headquarters.

The change is more than a feature upgrade: It is a symbolic gesture, making it easier to communicate, power users love it.

I just don't see it as a big deal and I think it's a proper symbolic gesture of peace for those who died.

It's a grand symbolic gesture, inspiring, but there's no power in it.

Jesus intends this as a symbolic gesture, clear to those who have eyes to see, meaningless to the rest.

They believe it is a symbolic gesture of having their sins washed away and coming unto Christ.

(I had poured wine into the chalice as a symbolic gesture.)

The invitation to perform seems to be a symbolic gesture of forgiveness to many, and many feel that such forgiveness should be extended to both artists.

The shaking off of the dust is a symbolic gesture indicating a rejection of those who reject the message.

The washing of the feet is, then, a symbolic gesture expressing how he understood his relationship to them, and how they should understand their relationship to one another.

But to show that initial break, that initial change, some sort of outer symbolic gesture is also helpful to get the conversations rolling.

Ok, on to Christian Baptism: Baptism is the public confession of one's faith, and is a symbolic gesture of putting to death your old sinful way of life (as in, living for yourself), and be raised a new creation in Christ (and now your focus is on His Will, not your own).

The thing is, marijuana remains prohibited at a federal level, so the laws were more a symbolic gesture than actual legislation.