Sentences with phrase «symbols for»

Tattoos — once the purview of bikers, punks, and rebellious 18 - year - olds — have circled back into symbols for wellness, a nod to tattooing's history as a spiritual and tribal practice, dating back millennia.

Additionally, the charismatic image of large carnivores often incites strong emotions, making them suitable symbols for management of large ecosystems.

Newton was even more secretive than Boyle, disguising his alchemical investigations (he wrote more than a million unpublished words on the subject) with codes, obscure symbols for chemicals, and colorful metaphors.

We used different symbols for estimations derived from footprints vs. skeletal elements, namely femurs.

The chemical symbols for heavy metals appear when a new low - cost, tape - based sensor detects them in water or powder.

You've probably heard that the Chinese character for «crisis» consists of symbols for both «uncertainty» and «opportunity.»

The Zodiac killer's code replaced letters with strange symbols and sometimes used multiple symbols for the same letter, making it very hard to decipher.

Williams hopes that as well as giving an alternative way of playing, the headset graphics will lead to a new notation for electronic music: adding symbols for filters and special effects to standard musical notation produces «a mass of hieroglyphics», he says.

On 17 February 1869, Mendeleyev jotted down the symbols for the chemical elements, putting them in order according to their atomic weights.

Use solid symbols for plotting data if possible (unless data overlap or there are multiple symbols).

Many are sold as food, many are slaughtered and sold as parts for «medicinal» purposes and aphrodisiacs, and many are huge, high - stakes status symbols for the wealthy elite — such as tigers, monkeys and Komodo dragons.»

This is apparent in the campaign's image of a donkey and an elephant (symbols for the two American political parties, see image above) merging under the slogan «one thing we can all agree on.»

Some European - made antique carriages are status symbols for celebrities such as Madonna and Celine Dion, who spent $ 2,600 on the classic Balmoral Pram, described by some Web reviewers as a tiny Humvee.

Signing is definitely a good idea and could help children in learning to use visual symbols for communication, which is a good skill for early reading.

These types of jewelry and ribbons are used as symbols for promoting infant loss and pregnancy.

They are also used as symbols for male breast cancer and male testicular cancer awareness.

You can make a poster and draw symbols for those words.

Like the formula industry, the Museum also attempted to divert criticism of misleading promotion by stating it promotes breastfeeding (although as people pointed out, the symbols for its baby care rooms are feeding bottles).

Ms. Agrell suggests that stamps in children's passports are merely status symbols for the aforementioned «affluent, affected parents», and even quotes the godfather of travel guidebooks, Arthur Frommer, as questioning how children or parents benefit from family travel.

Such thought uses its symbols for the purpose of apprehending and expressing insight or understanding of the nature and and of life as experienced by the individual and group.

On the contrary, there is for them a more «realistic» insistence on the use of language as being of necessity the symbols for that which we experience or observe.

Are symbols for God even possible?

If anything other religious symbols should be introduced in public places thus haveng a mixture of symbols for every citizen and promoting collaboration between religions / beliefs.

Ford sympathizes, noting that the Old Testament's «dominant experience of divine power seems to emphasize coercive elements, with the symbols for power drawn heavily from the military and political spheres» (LG 15).

Recognizing that their critique has rendered images of God no longer absolute, feminists have discovered that the religious power structure is reluctant to admit that patriarchal symbols for God are culturally influenced (as if God really were male) or contingent (as if use of a feminine symbol to point to a nonrepresentable God is more inadequate or idolatrous than use of a male symbol) To read Mary Daly or Naomi Goldenberg, to consider Rosemary Ruether's demasculinizing of the Gospel stories or to ponder the renewed attention to «goddess» theology and the development of a lesbian theology is to see the basic language of theological discourse upset and transformed.

A purely symbolic reading weakens historical events and words to the point where they become simply occasions for creating new symbols for our own age.

They argue that, given the nature of things, there are only certain pathways to God and that the forms approved by their special group are the appropriate symbols for representing him and for providing the «means of grace» by which the divine life is mediated to man.

Each of these cultures has produced a human - created morality and each has created its own set of symbols for the interpreting and living of life.

What if a Satanist erected his symbols for the victims and he said his intentions were good?

The New Testament presents two moving symbols for what was effected by the cross.

We will embrace a broader range of life events / themes to be celebrated, and we will develop new symbols for use in our worship.

And so we tend to experience what we have symbols for; the remainder is filtered out of our perception.

, 22 it might well have been possible to turn to some earlier period in English history — Magna Carta, say, or the Protectorate under Cromwell — to provide a body of legitimating symbols for the new nation.

If relations in Prolog are to be interpreted as symbols for prehensions in a Whiteheadian context, they must possess the capacity to be arbitrarily complex in order to represent complex prehensions.

If felt in some way by some concrescing entity, they then become symbols for actual prehensions: «A proposition is an element in the objective lure proposed for feeling, and when admitted into feeling it constitutes what is felt» (PR 187 / 284).

For Whitehead says, «coloured shapes seem to be symbols for some other elements in our experience, and when we see the coloured shapes we adjust our actions towards those other elements» (5 4).

Later, symbolic reference is alluded to as the theory «according to which our sensory perceptions stand as symbols for the activities in the external world» (PW 169/186).

Obama orders the Christian monogram «IHS» (Greek symbols for Jesus) to be covered up at the Christian school Georgetown University Gaston Hall, before giving his speech.

He selected the existing moon - god symbols for his religion, thus the crescent moon rather than cross on flags and ambulances, and the «moon rock» (meteorite?)

Some commenters pointed out that the introduction of the crucifix emoji would mean Facebook would be compelled to introduce symbols for other faiths.

We must indeed be careful in using personal symbols for God.

The America of Angels floats over history and appropriates disconnected facts and symbols for an aggressively presentist mindset.

Petro - Yuan Is The Newest Weapon For The China - Russia - Iran Anti-USD Alliance by Tyler Durden Authored by Jeff Brown via The Saker blog, Pictured above, the currency symbols for the old...

The company's name comes from the statistical symbols for «mean» and «standard deviation,» and conference rooms are named after statistical distributions.

These days, more and more, you might see the symbols for Under Armour, New Balance, Asics, Li Ning, or even Skechers.

To try it out, hit the Edit Profile button, go to the Bio section, and start typing what want to link, starting with the # symbol for a hashtag or @ for a profile.

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When thousands upon thousands of politically minded women needed a makeshift symbol for their movement at January's anti-Trump women's marches held worldwide, they reached into

When thousands upon thousands of politically minded women needed a makeshift symbol for their movement at January's anti-Trump women's marches held worldwide, they reached into their craft closets and took up an old skill: knitted pink «pussy hats» became the must - have accessories.

It's important for Canada and it's a great symbol for Harper to have gone to China to strike this deal; it means we support the internationalization of China's capital markets and recognize its importance to Canada.»