Sentences with phrase «symbolic message»

Michael Livermore, an expert on regulatory policy at New York University's School of Law, says revoking that executive order carried an important symbolic message: «Whatever you thought you knew about regulatory policy — things are going to be different.»

«For the NIH to turn around and start a graduate program sends the wrong symbolic message to the community.»

Aside from depicting personalities, Scott Anderson's paintings explore political revolutions and capitalism, setting them in a utopian environment and offering many symbolic messages yet to be construed.

I guess that depends on who is sending, and who is receiving, that symbolic message.

Motion 503, introduced by Calgary - Buffalo MLA Kent Hehr, was not a piece of binding legislation, it was a symbolic message of that all students, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, can be welcomed and accepted in Alberta's education system.

«When reading John, always be careful to look behind the story for a symbolic message,» I had said time and again.

But the Bible's being open has also a symbolic message to the preacher.

But by taking money out of for - profit prisons, the State is sending a strong, symbolic message.

In small groups you learn to guide others in their dream interpretations by asking questions, offering tools and helping each person unlock the symbolic messages to attain insights they can apply in their lives.

• A tutorial on figurative language and how different descriptive techniques can bring settings alive for readers while conveying a symbolic message or deeper meaning

If anyone states they are lower than that, you have your symbolic message that it is time to move on.

Johns» viewpoint is ambiguous, leaving the symbolic message open - ended.

Ford CEO Alan Mulally was driving to Washington in a Ford Escape hybrid to send a symbolic message to Congress that he is serious about cutting costs.

Yes, these people might have been painted white, covered in fake blood, dragging their feet and moaning over a portable sound system, but «the likelihood was great that the plaintiffs» artistic and symbolic message would be understood by those who viewed the protest.»

In this case, the law banned only offensive instances in that particular speech, meaning that a political organization that believed in that symbolic offensive message could not use it legally where as an organization that was opposed to the symbolic offensive message could use it as part of their opposition to the symbolic message.

First, four classes of behaviors appear universally to convey the symbolic message that «my parent...» (or other attachment figure) ``... loves me» (or does not love me — i.e., rejects me).