Sentences with phrase «symbolic statement of»

But unlike the WFP's endorsement in the race for governor, which could have held real consequences for Cuomo's general election match up against Republican Rob Astorino, the impact of the national endorsement for Sanders over Clinton is more of a symbolic statement of purpose for the party.

Not exact matches

Although the move itself is minimal, with the Fed saying in a statement that it would lift its benchmark rate by a quarter of a percent, to between 0.25 percent and 0.5 percent, it has a huge symbolic value.

This means not only that we are approaching the texts as fully human productions — I point out that statements of divine inspiration are statements concerning ultimate origin and authority, not method of composition - but even more that we take seriously that aspect of literature of most interest to cultural anthropologists: how it gives symbolic expression to human experience.

Gregory thought that this was an exemplary statement of the way to protest the abuse of coercive authority — not by overt, destructive, risk - laden rebellion, but by a symbolic demonstrative act revealing the vulnerable moral credibility of abused power.

Though the announcements may be purely symbolic, they are still a disappointment, said Matthew Soerens, US director of church mobilization for World Relief, which opposes the governors» decisions [full statement below].

It seems to me, as I wrote, that confessing the Church's faith as explicitly one's own increases both the drama of the statement and the investment with which one makes it» and that such submission to the whole Church's creed offers a symbolic movement away from, not toward, individualism.

Whitehead's statement that propositions are «lures for feeling» (PR 395) means that the commonsense world which we perceive is symbolic of the throbbing world of physical activities (PW 141/153).

But there are two fundamentally different ways of approaching such an explication, and they are correlative with the two primary ways of understanding the language in which the confessional statement is made: the univocal, which takes the language as rigidly discursive, and the imagistic, which sees it as highly analogical or symbolic.

In Romans 14 speaking about symbolic acts, Paul makes the remarkable statement that nothing is unclean of itself, only if one thinks it is unclean, is it unclean.

by Franz Rosenzweig and Ludwig Strauss [Berlin: Lambert Schneider Verlag, 1928], p. 65 f.) This statement is symbolic of the way in which he has consistently answered this question: good can be maximized not through the rejection or conquest of evil but only through the transformation of evil, the use of its energy and passion in the service of the good.

But of course the creedal statement, hallowed as it is by centuries of use during the celebration of the Eucharist, can be understood only when it is seen as a combination of supposedly historical data, theological affirmation put in a quasi-philosophical idiom, and a good deal of symbolic language (with the use of such phrases as «came down from heaven», «ascended into heaven», and the like).

David Lull responds initially by arguing from Cobb that the idea of creative transformation is a material norm for theology, and that the word «transformation» is a rational statement of the more symbolic terms «creation, redemption, justification, emancipation, or sanctification» (WPH 194).

Referring to a statement as true might be considered meaningful in the case of empirically proven hypothesis, or of formal statements in some symbolic logic, but never regarding ad - hoc metaphysical propositions given to you by an old «holy» book, eyewitness accounts or personal anecdotes.

This occurrence has symbolic meaning; it proves the validity of the statement of the renowned traveler - explorer Marco Polo: «If Buddha had been a Christian, he would have been a great saint of our Lord Jesus Christ, so good and pure was the life that he led.»

Everyone realizes there's no rational basis for holding up on this thing To make a symbolic statement against the president and cost New York state millions of dollars is foolish.

The statement explained that the action carried a symbolic import that necessitated their public expression of gratitude to the president.

Though recent events have proven the Academy Awards to be as much a political statement as they are a popularity contest, they remain both the literal and symbolic gold standard of the U.S. film industry.

Eventually, however, the puzzle pieces have to start forming a recognizable image — there's even a baldly expository / symbolic scene that illustrates this using actual puzzle pieces — and The Captive's endgame is simultaneously so silly and muddled that it's impossible to take seriously, even though Egoyan is clearly struggling to make some sort of grand statement.

The 75th Golden Globes was a big night for symbolic, statement - making style on the red carpet, thanks to a parade of powerfully dressed women in an inky sea of black dresses, accessorized with Time's Up lapel pins and accompanied by female activists.

Such a symbolic statement when teachers qualified would help to «elevate» the status of the profession, he says.

Through the selection of symbolic objects, the processing and transformation of materials, and intentional repetition and combination in placements, the artist is able to realize the extension of content so that the appearance and name of artworks coalesce into a discourse of unfinished statements.

This figure, often fragmented, sometimes even completely abstracted, takes on various forms, from the human face, at once raw material and object of symbolic representation, as with Benglis's objectifying caresses, to the full body as place and tool of the trial and pleasure of repetition, as with Nauman's amateur choreography, bordering on the absurd, to the traces and physical prints left by the artist - creator (or the «art worker» in his service), as with the irregular random geometry of LeWitt, to the peers (Donald Judd) and tutelary figures in the history of art who inspire Flavin's evanescent structures... Now a disenchanted statement «Double Eye Poke» offers a challenge to the being of perception and thought.

The truth of that statement — i.e. whether or not the letter holds any weight as a real obstructive tool or is more of a symbolic protest — isn't entirely clear.

The symbolic focus will shift from conceptual and the safety of art history to the concrete and current when the «object» supporting the statement is no longer a statue but a living and breathing human being.

This 1987 statement regarding her early Nouveau Realiste Shooting Paintings - symbolic executions of the male art establishment - is a window into a lesser - known side of de Saint Phalle's work, which has been frequently identified with the grotesque friendliness and exuberance of her subsequent Nana sculptures.

«While groups opposed to the safe and sustainable transportation of products such as oil by pipeline may try to claim a symbolic victory, it's important to focus on what is at stake,» Girling said in a statement.

Dr Peter Stott, head of the Met Office's climate monitoring and attribution team emphasises the symbolic importance of today's statement, saying:

In short, a sentence with a denunciatory element represents a symbolic, collective statement that the offender's conduct should be punished for encroaching on our society's basic code of values as enshrined within our substantive criminal law.»