Sentences with phrase «symbolic victories»

Those actions alone did more to reduce emissions than the symbolic victories of passing a watered - down cap - and - trade bill or shutting down the Keystone XL pipeline would have.

I suspect deselections will turn out to be a damp squib with a few symbolic victories but not enough to truly alter the overall shape of the Parliamentary party or more than a handful of councils.

As friends and advisers of the governor see it, Cuomo enters the discussion of top - tier presidential contenders in a party that hasn't just gotten used to symbolic victories; it has become comfortable with even symbolic losses.

To all who think this is a isolated incident, that this isn't Islams method of gaining foothold in an area they would see as a symbolic victory, you just need to look at what is still happening in London where they are battling the «Mega Mosque».

And a symbolic victory in this kind of war is a real victory.

Hitler was desperate for a symbolic victory over the mother country of football but the German team proved to be no match for Stanley Matthews and company and England ran out 6 - 3 winners.

Your minds are the problem; as you hitch yourselves to a game of some skill but often luck, with a million polemics each moment, where no outcome can ever be predicted in the hope of attaining an orgasm of superiority, but its symbolic victory, and do you really think there is such thing as victory?

The endorsement is a symbolic victory for Specter in his Democratic primary battle against Rep. Joe Sestak — the former Navy admiral running to Specter's left — and will help protect Specter from critics who have questioned his commitment to the party.

Democrats also won a major symbolic victory in Nevada as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D) defeated former state assemblywoman Sharron Angle (R).

Coal only provides about 4 percent of the state's power, but closing down the dirtiest power plant is a symbolic victory for environmentalists.

The Gill Action Fund, on the other hand, wants a win and is arguing against a vote if all it will be is a symbolic victory.

The drive to ban reparative therapy is understandable, but apart for the symbolic victory, I worry it won't have the intended effect.

It is a celebrated, symbolic victory that we have nicknamed the «Miracle on Ice,» which inspired the 2004 film Miracle with Kurt Russell.

Pedro Noguera, who directs UCLA's Center for the Study of School Transformation, said last week's election results were «more of a symbolic victory than something that is actually going to have an impact.»

«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.

It can just hope for a symbolic victory that it can try to use for PR purposes.

Not exact matches

As footballing victories go, this was pretty symbolic.

40 But once again, omnipotence is another symbolic term, though it is retained as an expression of our ultimate courage to have faith in «a victory over the threat of nonbeing.»

Nets Daily has more on a victory that has more symbolic value to Nets fans than most because it makes the unprotected first - round pick Brooklyn is sending to Boston juuuust a bit worse.

The victory is largely symbolic because in October, a Lake County judge barred Cryns from practicing midwifery while the case is pending.

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Republicans are still stultified and angered by the depth and scope of the Democratic victory in 2008 and its symbolic rejection of the conservatism that had dominated the Bush presidency.

While the presidency is a mostly symbolic post, the race had attracted Europe - wide attention as the next possible victory for populists after Donald Trump's presidential win in the United States and Britain's Brexit vote.

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.

Ms Cooper's down - to - earth feminism defines her politics — she knows that those hardest hit by austerity are women — so her victory would be more than symbolic.»

Ross keeps the symbolic connection of Seabiscuit's rise to fame and victory in the background, concentrating his tale on its three central characters.

Paranoid and apocalyptic, it distils the troubles of the world to one cipher, one symbolic, hyperbolic entity who by himself represents the rope tied between the beast and the ubermensch given the collective choice to succumb or exceed, draws the only victory possible from avoiding that plummet into the abyss.

As in Eastchester, the symbolic «first fowl» of the United States again soared to victory.

What this means is that Apple's much publicized victory in its patent war against Samsung is largely symbolic.

However, the victory can be considered as largely symbolic as Samsung had already replaced the particular tablet with a reworked version named the Galaxy Tab 10.1 N. Apple has sought a preliminary injunction on the sale of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 N, though the court clearly wasn't impressed enough.

Gutiérrez's work considers how time affects both the material and symbolic world, observing how victory and celebration are conditional to a specific moment in history that easily fades away.

But we need the victory to be more than symbolic, and more than a show of force.

A win by the plaintiffs, says the Globe, «would dismantle a federal statute that affects more than 1,000 marriage - related benefits, and it would be a huge victory on symbolic and practical levels for supporters of same - sex marriage.»

Perkins victory was not just symbolic.

The 500,000 milestone is both a symbolic and real victory for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander survival.