Sentences with phrase «symbolic moment for»

The recent opening of Taubman Centers» new mall in Salt Lake City might have marked a nice symbolic moment for the retail real estate industry, but it's not about to usher in a new era of construction abandon...

It will be a symbolic moment for the company — after all, it was at the same event last year that Faraday was lambasted for unveiling an overhyped concept car — and the hype has been commensurate.

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When God commanded Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac, it was not just to see if Abraham was faithful enough to follow his commandment, it was also symbolic of the sacrifice God himself would make in sacrifice his beloved and begotten son, but unlike Abraham who was spared at the last moment from carrying through with the sacrifice of his son, God the father actually carried through with the sacrifice and although it wasn't permanent it still did not mean that there was no anguish, it doesn't matter how brief it was, if it was enough for divine and eternal beings to have to go through such heartache, all of which for our lowly sakes, in my view that is quite significant and I believe that such suffering is actually beyond mine or anyone else's comprehension.

The queen «s role is symbolic and sacramental, she stands for us in our National moments.

«I know that Martin McGuinness and his colleagues will use this hugely symbolic moment to spur on their work to create a better future for everyone in Northern Ireland.»

Going back to his hometown for this historic moment was symbolic to Obama because the city is where he worked as a young community organizer and where eight years ago he declared victory to become the country's first black president.

That moment of crossing the $ 1 million threshold was really symbolic for me personally.

But I believe these moments are meant to be more symbolic of the good versus evil struggle for the soul of Gotham city, rather than lapses in judgment from the creative team.

It's an unexpectedly literary turn for a film like this, the kind of obnoxiously symbolic moment that would doom a Hemingway hero.

While these sort of heavy - handed references might work in the knowing artifice of one of the Matrix movies, as a real - world premise for our near future, it seems a bit too rooted in self - awareness to not continuously take us out of the moment for extended ruminations of symbolic reflection.

When a little girl shows up in a bright blue dress and the student flirts with him at a bar surrounded by red in the background, we're thrown completely out of the moment for Ford's insistence on making his symbolic point so crystal clear.

I want to be there for the reopening of the U.S. Embassy, this end - of - history moment, however symbolic its significance.

Together, these works examine the conditions in which symbolic moments enter history, how these circumstances evolve over time, and how memory and history compete for relevance in the present.

From William's perspective, «the fleeting moments of life around me become a vehicle for the expression of symbolic and poetical concepts.»

Though the functionality of the two networks is at the moment exactly the same, the symbolic power of a ledger that hasn't been modified proved enough for one developer to take lead on keeping the chain alive.

It is a little silly, but as we stopped for a few moments of silence over the loss of that innocent little deer, we were so grateful for a symbolic reminder.