Sentences with phrase «symbolic way»

They are indispensable symbolic ways of making ourselves in some sense contemporary with the past events of salvation history.

That forces them to think in more symbolic ways when defining a term.

Different churches treat their children in different symbolic ways.

These are group - supported and symbolic ways of coping with the anxiety resulting inevitably from loss of old securities and the threat of the unknown stage ahead.

Start a new tradition to honor the eagle and customs in a more symbolic way.

Future Ed School students, whether their programmatic experience is focused squarely or less directly on early education, will now be enrolled in a higher education institution that, in very concrete as well as symbolic ways, is organizing around the notion that the years before formal schooling are crucial.

The point, in any case, is about populations and ecosystems, not somebody's idea of a poor dear sweet bear — though no doubt the imagery would be powerful in symbolic ways quite beyond ecological ones.

I have suggested that the language of religion may be understood as representing in a mythic and symbolic way at least a portion of the qualitative data given to us in primary perception.

A subtle, yet sizzling, not to mention biblically symbolic way of letting your man know your intentions.

The answer is by showing that there is a moral mission for lower taxes — and the best, boldest, and most symbolic way would be to restore the starting ten pence band of income - tax, which Gordon Brown scrapped in 2008.

With autobiographical references, the artist's body of work to date has been developed into a vocabulary of forms and objects that convey certain messages in an almost symbolic way.

Analyzing widely published images of Gandhi's public persona and the highly symbolic ways in which he manifested his beliefs and lifestyle, this exhibition aims to bring together major works of art from different periods of Eastern and Western culture under the large theme of the arts of nonviolence.

Nakedpastor David Hayward May 28, 2015 at 7:34 am I do believe that our «gods» are our external projections of an ideal, our attempt to understand the mystery in symbolic ways.

«In a lot of ways, it's a symbolic way for Best Buy and Yahoo to remind their employees that the old ways are not going to guide the company.»

And of course Jesus didn't say «whoever believes will be saved, then some might choose a symbolic way to declare it publicly if they want to,» he said «Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved.»

But we nevertheless wanted to be present in this town in a symbolic way to hold the discussions we have had.

On one hand, religion represents, in a mythic and symbolic way, some of the qualitative data given to us in primary perception (intuition).

At best this is a symbolic way of speaking, and to understand it we must look at the whole God - world relationship.

Stealing by an emotionally - starved child may be both a symbolic way of grasping for love and an attack on his parents.

That movement is to be remembered and continually re-enacted in symbolic ways and in actuality in the church's life.

Resurrection is at the very least a symbolic way of guaranteeing that such embodied existence, and also sociality or sharing with others in human existence, count enormously in the ongoing reality of human life.

These rites have been around for thousands of years, but in recent centuries, some clerics of this religion have grown uncomfortable with the way these rites appear «magical» and so have continued to practice them, but only in a symbolic way.

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 program of Munch, developed very early in his career, is to probe in visual and symbolic ways the tensions between outer and inner worlds.

The sacraments (holy communion and baptism for most Protestants), as well as sacred rites such as marriage, confirmation, healing practices, and funeral services are symbolic ways of dealing with the major stress - points and crises of living.

If I may interject, I do believe that our «gods» are our external projections of an ideal, our attempt to understand the mystery in symbolic ways.

A couple of years ago, United Nations ambassador Samantha Power sought to counter Putin's annexation of Crimea in a symbolic way.

Dreams can help bring questions of identity and responsibility to the surface where the dreamer can examine his joys and fears in an imaginative and symbolic way.

And the change could be a useful practical and symbolic way to get parties and party members to face out and connect more people connected with party politics.

Questions of right and wrong can not be settled during a war but at most only after the war, and only in a symbolic way like the Nuremberg trials, and that too only if the Good Guys have won.

With United Russia's commanding majority, sharing committee chairs is one straightforward and symbolic way to try to allay fears of a one - party legislature.

«I think it's an act of defiance and an act of resilience and a symbolic way of saying to Donald Trump that the electors stand with immigrants, you know, and that they are not going to stand for a person who has used an anti-immigrant platform his entire campaign,» Thanu Yakupitiyage, NYIC's senior communications manager, told the Observer in a telephone interview.

«In a symbolic way, I have your birthday card, Mommy,» he said.

The Victorian - era political writer Walter Bagehot famously divided the unwritten British constitution into two parts: the dignified, the symbolic way in which political systems seem to work, and the efficient, the way things actually get done.

«Nevertheless, whether or not a bill is enacted, the introduction of legislation like this can be a symbolic way to reassure evangelical political constituents that their concerns are represented and that their views are legitimate.»

This opportunity shows, in a very visible and symbolic way, how much it values classroom teachers.

Instead of the traditional bar graph, students can create their bar graphs in more creative or symbolic ways.

I do it in a symbolic way, in a way which only gives a sense of a world that was shattered.»