Sentences with phrase «symbols of allegiance»

Manners are the symbols of allegiance to the approved principles of the social establishment.

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The religious among us keep trying to chip away at the separation of church and state by making people recite the pledge of allegiance with the God clause, installing religious symbols and displays on public property, holding prayer breakfasts for politicians, berating the removal of prayer in public schools, trying to pass laws limiting women's access to birth control, and trying to get an amendment passed outlawing abortion (since in their view God creates a soul the moment a sperm enters an egg).

Whether the family is nuclear or extended, a twosome or a tribe, its propensities for reverence and ritual often express a religious process that relates home - grown myths, honors domestic symbols, and follows devotional sequences that intensify faith in that family and allegiance to its own images of ultimacy.

The most direct symbol of Heastie's and his New York City - dominated chamber's allegiance to de Blasio comes in the form of a budget that renews mayoral control of city schools for 7 years, delivers a major increase in education funding without Cuomo's proposed reforms, increases pre-K monies, and would deliver a $ 15 minimum wage for the city.

Yes, the U.S. flag waves and everyone pledges allegiance, but the symbol and pledge are of a nation — not of education in this particular school.

In the absence of words or symbols, these signs disclose no allegiance to any cause, as though redacted.

As typical symbols of power and patriotism, banners mark territory, pledge allegiance, protest and parade; they are the standard markers of war and demonstrations.