Sentences with phrase «symbolic value of»

We should not underestimate, nevertheless, the symbolic value of this enactment, which strengthens the case law and protection extended to transgender people and clearly positions gender - based harassment as illegal behaviour in the federal sphere.

In that sense, divestment commitments are less about money being moved but the symbolic value of institutions distancing themselves from the industry.

But a good audience thinks about the cultural and symbolic value of this exchange where we can locate the truly elevating, transformative potential of art — the combustion chamber for emotional esthetic experience.

Since the mid-1960s, American conceptualist Elaine Sturtevant (born 1930) has been using her multidisciplinary practice to mercilessly interrogate the commercial and symbolic value of art and the male - driven art world.

Brooklyn Museum officials considered running the event over several weekends but ultimately decided that «the symbolic value of a single weekend was more important,» said Steffani Jameson, a GO project coordinator.

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.

This lesson explores the different features of a Christian funeral and asks students to reflect on the symbolic value of these features.

I still puzzle over the symbolic value of the car crash that opens Punch - Drunk Love and is never remarked upon.

«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.

Two years ago, Eileen Doktorski became enthralled with capturing the aesthetic and symbolic value of garbage.

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 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:

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.

Over time, the pipeline took on symbolic value of epic proportions, elevated by environmentalist and energy advocates alike into a proxy battle for climate change.

His work delineates a way out of a wasteful society through a heightened understanding of the spiritual and symbolic values of useful things.»

The works have cosmological associations — «stars expanding their energy and becoming black holes, white dwarfs, and neutron stars,» Eversley explained at the time — but also prompt us to consider the symbolic values of color itself, even as identity - driven associations.

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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.

Wonder Woman's symbolic value has been equivocal from the character's inception, decades before she first made the cover of Ms. Magazine.

As noted previously, much of the value of having a large charging infrastructure is symbolic - it serves to assuage the customer's fear as opposed to being the dominant means by which they charge their vehicle.

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.

Not only does this have practical value at a time when family members may not have the time or energy to fix meals but it also has a profound symbolic meaning on the level of feeding and nurturing.

One of the symbolic functions of the creation accounts themselves is to give positive value to time and to provide the staging for history.

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.

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.

The approach considers the congregation less a texture or machine or organism than a discourse, an exchange of symbols that express the views, values, and motivations of the parish.66 While the other approaches explore, respectively, the context, effectiveness, and communal development of the congregation, the symbolic outlook instead focuses upon its identity.

Even psychologists like Jung, who was most favorably disposed toward the therapeutic value of the symbolic life, still have doubts about the ontological substantiality of religious myth and symbol.

As a symbolic means of enhancing the other forms of prayer through the imaginative consideration of other persons, it will continue to have considerable value.

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.

But it is precisely because this feeling remains for the most part buried beneath the level of our immediate awareness that we need symbolic expression to bring this value into our conscious awareness so as to bolster and vivify our capacity to trust.

The relation between a «generalized symbolic medium of values «and what I earlier referred to as «moral architecture» or «set of religious terms» is quite clear and has long been recognized.

The psychologist takes account of this symbolic value rather than of the historic diffusion of maize.

Although the abortion debate may gradually become more muted, «none of us should be too surprised if, by the turn of the century, technological changes were once again to make abortion a battleground for competing social, ethical, and symbolic values.»

That is why many Pentecostal leaders value so highly the freedom of the city and other symbolic honors to their persons and activities.

It is a digestive with spiritual values symbolic of love, friendship, and respect.

It's not «just a mistake» It's a symbolic representation of underlying values.

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).

Founder, Kim Estes, began the search for a logo for Savvy Parents Safe Kids wanting something meaningful and symbolic of local parenting values that would also reflect the mission of Savvy Parents Safe Kids.

The existence of physical money has a symbolic value.

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».

Firstly, it points to the significance of citizenship's symbolic value.

Whatever claims either side makes to the contrary the islands are of minimal strategic or resource value; they are instead symbolic of much older military conflicts between the two countries.

But student leaders and Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, chair of the committee, said they wanted the Morales / Shakur space returned to students partly because of its symbolic value.

«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.

From med school teaching tool to warrior's trophy, that lump of stuff, when separated from our necks, has both utilitarian and symbolic value.

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.