Sentences with phrase «symbolic value in»

But there is both real and symbolic value in these hig - profile positions; losing them reduces the profession.

Cai's gunpowder piece Eagle Landing on the Pine Branch (2007) is, according to China Daily, especially significant: «the motifs of eagle and pine trees were chosen for their symbolic value in both China and the United States, representing the friendship and cooperation between the two countries.»

Did you intend for the peacocks to have a particular symbolic value in the novel?

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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.

Bezos» rise carries important symbolic weight — signaling Amazon's unbridled power and value, presenting a new face of outsized wealth to the world and heralding a new kind of billionaire who is skeptical of philanthropy and has massive reach in culture, technology and media.

Although the deployment to Iwakuni is not a direct U.S. response to escalating tensions in the region as it represents a planned phase of the normal operational integration of the F - 35B force for the U.S. Marine, the deployment of the most advanced American aircraft to the region has also a symbolic value.

But if anyone would have appreciated the enormous symbolic value of having moderate Muslims create a space close to ground zero - as opposed to any other possible location in New York - with the aim of promoting inter-religious understanding, it was Pope John Paul II.

The use of numbers in ancient religious texts was usually numerological rather than numerical; that is, their symbolic value was more important than their secular value as counters.

The symbolic function of creation in valuing time and history becomes clearer when the Genesis accounts are compared with myths whose purpose is to legitimate cyclical time (as in the Babylonian myth of the primeval conquest of Tiamat by Marduk, alluded to in Genesis 1:2), or to those in which time itself is a negative aspect of a fallen order (as in Plato's myth of the fall of the soul, or similar myths favored by Hindu and Buddhist mysticism).

Rather these traditional ethical values must be understood as the symbolic expression of what takes place when people stand in true dialogical relation to each other.

She required her private life and loved ones, her family and household, to carry a symbolic value, too, one so great, in fact, that they were crushed by it.

But this is entirely symbolic and actually has no value other than it increases his stature in the eyes of believers.

It is a symbolic way of talking about attitudes and values of actual persons who have been caught up in devotion to one in relation to whom they have found a new and ultimately satisfying kind of life.

These are people professionally trained to deal with symbolic knowledge; they turn out such symbols (beliefs, values, opinions) with great ease, and they turn them back in again.

’18 In this non-objective view, God is a symbolic term referring to our highest values and aspirations.

So the symbolic vehicles must always be proportionate to our own concrete sense experience if they are to mediate the value of the whole to us in any way.

And every religious act, by the simple fact that it is religious, is endowed with a meaning which, in the last instance, is «symbolic,» since it refers to supernatural values or beings.

The twentieth - century liturgical movement had included a revival of interest in the symbolic value of the Mass ceremonial and this found striking endorsement, specifically in relation to the consecration ritual, in Pius XII's 1947 encyclical Mediator Dei:

I legal terms, when a value has to me higher than a certain amount, one symbolic unit is added, in this instance a pound.

The Baby Lift Up is a nationally coordinated activity where mothers throughout the nation simultaneously lift their babies up in the air as a symbolic reflection of their value,» shares Kiddada Green, Founding Executive Director of BMBFA.

I focused on their ritual and symbolic enactments of their own value system as a template for the values with which they will approach space travel and space commerce in the 21st century, and have published that research in Late Editions VIII, Para-Sites, edited by George Marcus (2000).

In an age in which most of our key players pay lip service to Awo's ideals as well as the symbolism around his life and service, it is refreshing to find someone in such a critical position as the Governor who not only exemplifies Awo's commitment to public good, but also recognizes the value of symbolic memory»In an age in which most of our key players pay lip service to Awo's ideals as well as the symbolism around his life and service, it is refreshing to find someone in such a critical position as the Governor who not only exemplifies Awo's commitment to public good, but also recognizes the value of symbolic memory»in which most of our key players pay lip service to Awo's ideals as well as the symbolism around his life and service, it is refreshing to find someone in such a critical position as the Governor who not only exemplifies Awo's commitment to public good, but also recognizes the value of symbolic memory»in such a critical position as the Governor who not only exemplifies Awo's commitment to public good, but also recognizes the value of symbolic memory».

The symbolic value of citizenship, in other words, can not be fully detached from the expectations that emanate from the wish to be recognised as a citizen.

«The Sefer Torah has unique symbolic value and is nowadays the most sacred object in Judaism,» says Nicholas de Lange, a researcher in Jewish and Hebrew studies at the University of Cambridge.

In our species, such capacities were probably extended to support parochialism, group cohesion, and our tendency to attach symbolic meanings to social values and religion.»

In contrast, the upper echelons» diet was mainly focused on species that had great symbolic value for Maya, such as the powerful jaguars and crocodiles that roamed the Central American jungles.

Victor said the target, enshrined at a 2009 climate summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, has great political and symbolic value, and will be difficult for leaders to back away from.

«Everyone — Europeans and the rest of the world alike — will rightly see this decision as the European Commission downgrading both the practical and the symbolic value of science in Europe,» said Imran Khan, chief executive of the British Science Association.

He wrote, «As in the medical profession, the main value of such an oath might be symbolic, but I believe it would also stimulate young scientists to reflect on the wider consequences of their intended field of work.

2.8 million) will be available in 2005 — although the small size of the increase makes its value symbolic rather than practical.

To this day, the bird carries symbolic value among tribes linked to those early Native Americans, and turkey feathers remain important in many ritual practices.

Though I tend to gravitate towards style choices that are more symbolic of that of the late 60s and 70s, there's no denying that the 80s and 90s hold sentimental value to me, as I was born in the 80s and raised in the 90s!

Represents natural numbers in different ways or associates a number with a set of objects or drawings: emphasis on place value in non-apparent, non-accessible groupings, using materials for which groupings are symbolic (e.g. abacus, money)

So in this sense the Alfa Romeo 4C supercar is a symbolic product with an extremely high level of quality and technological refinement that embodies the deepest values of the Alfa Romeo brand.

In economic modeling, many of the first steps in creating a model are symbolic anyway, so «growth rate,», «change in output», and «economic growth» are used interchangeably to describe changes in GDP because the values either aren't known, irrelevant until later in the project, or pulled from data that describes it using one or several of the previously stated termIn economic modeling, many of the first steps in creating a model are symbolic anyway, so «growth rate,», «change in output», and «economic growth» are used interchangeably to describe changes in GDP because the values either aren't known, irrelevant until later in the project, or pulled from data that describes it using one or several of the previously stated termin creating a model are symbolic anyway, so «growth rate,», «change in output», and «economic growth» are used interchangeably to describe changes in GDP because the values either aren't known, irrelevant until later in the project, or pulled from data that describes it using one or several of the previously stated termin output», and «economic growth» are used interchangeably to describe changes in GDP because the values either aren't known, irrelevant until later in the project, or pulled from data that describes it using one or several of the previously stated termin GDP because the values either aren't known, irrelevant until later in the project, or pulled from data that describes it using one or several of the previously stated termin the project, or pulled from data that describes it using one or several of the previously stated terms.

But the stakes are extraordinarily high in L.A. — in terms of lives saved or lost, but also in terms of the city's symbolic value as a community committed to trap - neuter - return despite both the injunction and the faltering economy.

The stakes are incredibly high in L.A. — in terms of lives saved or lost, but also in terms of the city's symbolic value as a community committed to trap - neuter - return, despite both the injunction and the faltering economy.

This museum is an initiative of local women dedicated to renewing the value of the work of the weavers and the symbolic content of the Mayan world in clothing.

The exhibition title Alchemy refers to a process in which symbolic values are refined and modified.

In her conversation with the artist, also published in the book, Anne Pontégnie remarks, «Fish are the incarnation of life, they have a symbolic valuIn her conversation with the artist, also published in the book, Anne Pontégnie remarks, «Fish are the incarnation of life, they have a symbolic valuin the book, Anne Pontégnie remarks, «Fish are the incarnation of life, they have a symbolic value.

Blue was symbolic in many religious paintings, especially the Virgin Mary's gown, and it was chosen for its priceless value rather than any religious connotations.

The architecture takes on a symbolic value thanks to the writing, and it is the signs that create the field of correspondences... In Learning from Las Vegas, Venturi / Brown / Izenour proclaimed the sign as being the organizing element of movements in space, and they succeeded in demonstrating the ways in which modernism uses graphic signs and symbols so that space can be oriented in a precise directioIn Learning from Las Vegas, Venturi / Brown / Izenour proclaimed the sign as being the organizing element of movements in space, and they succeeded in demonstrating the ways in which modernism uses graphic signs and symbols so that space can be oriented in a precise directioin space, and they succeeded in demonstrating the ways in which modernism uses graphic signs and symbols so that space can be oriented in a precise directioin demonstrating the ways in which modernism uses graphic signs and symbols so that space can be oriented in a precise directioin which modernism uses graphic signs and symbols so that space can be oriented in a precise directioin a precise direction.

This transformative ethos, from which a symbolic universal value emanates, is key in Gates's practice.

Through conversations with academics, curators and artists both in China and the UK, Julien uncovered a symbolic body of material which he has used to create a work that explores modern and traditional Chinese values and superstitions.

The In situ props, which all share the symbolic value of both escape and uprising, interact with wanderers on various levels: may these be physical, visual, narrative or emotional.

Rejecting both naturalism and pure abstraction at the end of the Second World War, Cobra valued unbridled experimentation and creative freedom, manifested in brilliant, colorful paintings of distorted figures that provided a more symbolic and political European counterpoint to the roughly contemporary «action painting» of the Abstract Expressionists in the U.S..

Its symbolic meaning created such moral, ethical, and emotional values in Americans, paving the way for a country's growth from an East Coast settlement, to a coast - to - coast nation of progress.

The exhibition showcases the most outstanding and symbolic works from the late 1990s and 2000s which directly reflect the changing cultural and social environment and values of the Chinese people in a booming economy».

In these experiences, Byars not only reworked his role as an artist but also the mise en scène, giving symbolic value to rigorous objects and stressing the inherent beauty of materials, including fabric, stone and especially gold.

Colours tend be whole and uninflected, suggestive of integrated values, best seen in the prints of Matthew Brannon and Camilla Wills and the wall works of Paul Lee, unfazed by doubt and un-riven by division, and ultimately as symbolic of reliability as they are of concealment and repression.