Sentences with phrase «than a symbol for»

The abs are much more than a symbol for how lean and muscular you are, they are essential for performance and stability.

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For those of you who like to live on the cutting - edge side of the tech world, there's no better status symbol than the smartwatch.

The Unicode standard defines a unique number for every letter, symbol, or glyph in more than 30 written languages, and it's still growing.

PIMCO Total Return ETF switched ticker symbols from TRXT to BOND on the NYSE Arca in April and has a gross expense ratio of 0.55 %, which is notably cheaper than the 0.85 % charged for the more established PIMCO Total Return A (PTTAX), according to Rosenbluth.

I feel it should stay, even though it is not for all religions or non-religious, it is a symbol of things bigger than Christianity.

Even if the symbol for some is nothing more than a torture and execution device.

«More than a mosque... more than any other symbol it is the Quran that symbolizes the word of God for a Muslim.»

Paul said that without love, no amount of eloquence, wisdom, knowledge, prophecy, faith, charity, or sacrifice can compensate for the fact that we are little more than noisy, clanging symbols.

Less ambitious, and for that reason more persuasive if less dramatic, is the statement by A. Wilder that «true metaphor or symbol is more than a sign; it is a bearer of the reality to which it refers» and so the parables are to the disciples»... Jesus» interpretation to them of his own vision by the powers of metaphor» (Amos N. Wilder, Language of the Gospel [New York: Harper & Row, and London: SCM Press (as Early Christian Rhetoric), 1964], pp. 92 f.)

Drawing on the conventions of the classical literature of love and using an existing pan-Indian stock of symbols and figures of speech, the bhakti poets nevertheless strive for spontaneous, direct, personal expression of feeling rather than a rarified cultivation of aesthetic effect and the «emotion recollected», preferred by the Sanskrit poets.

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?)

More than once in my life, they've served as a symbol for things to come.

«Executive,» «laborer,» «Catholic,» «Southern Baptist,» «Jew,» «Democrat,» «Republican,» «Socialist,» for example, are proper designations of occupational, religious, or political affiliation, but may under undemocratic pressures become class symbols which divide people into comprehensive separate groups for other than occupational, religious, or political purposes.

i guess they are more worried about a symbol, than what that symbol stands for.

In his own wide - ranging and nuanced criticism of both biblical and secular texts, Ricoeur himself moves easily from a close reading of symbols to theoretical reflection, thereby modeling for an entire generation a more conceptually sophisticated way of joining religion and art than had heretofore been practiced.

As for the athiest victims, they didn't have a symbol of religion or lack of religion so there is no need to display anything for them, other than the memorial site with the names carved in.

Moreover, such an act — even if done regularly — would be primarily symbolic, and U.S. international religious freedom policy has for too long been characterized by symbols rather than substance.

NOW the cross is the symbol of TRIUMPH over death of body and soul for Anyone who believes Christs message and hopes for something better than what you narrow, discouraging, hopeless naysayers have to offer.

For those who view this as merely a sign of Christianity - over the years the symbol of a white cross has come to mean much more than a symbol of Christianity.

There is no one religious symbol or concept from the past which it is essential to retain for the spirituality of the global society, any more than the language of the whole world ought to be English, Arabic, Chinese or Latin.

Nevertheless, like the sacraments (which would otherwise become bare symbols), the kerygma necessarily assumes the form of tradition, for it is more than a summary of general truths, and is itself part of the eschatological event.

When we have found symbols, and become comfortable with them, the symbols become more urgent than the reality for which they stand.

Because Jesus» listeners would have been familiar with the vineyard as a symbol for the people Israel, not for creation, they would have given an altogether different meaning to the story than the one traditionally preached by Christians.

If he, wonder of wonders, still remains obstinate, then finally resort to: THE FIGURATIVE SYMBOLISM DODGE and confide that sophisticated people like himself recognize that Eris is a Figurative Symbol for an Ineffable Metaphysical Reality and that The Erisian Movement is really more like a poem than like a science and that he is liable to be turned into a Precious Mao Button and Distributed to The Poor in The Region of Thud if he does not get hip.

As for the symbol, it is no less feeble than the example with regard to the unjustifiable.

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.

Is it really so complicated to understand that the cross as a symbol has come to represent More than just the God who sacrifices himself for humanity and wants us to love and respect each other?

And because the self tends to be multidimensional, if not transformational, the process of choosing and adapting religious symbols may acquire the quality of a lifelong «journey» rather than a once - for - all decision, let alone an ascribed status.

This was has so much hatred for a religious symbol that not only symbolizes Christianity but it is also a huge part of Italian culture that she would go as far as taking the matter to court... why is her opinion, her feelings more important than the opinion and feelings of the rest of the Italian population?

In accord with its concern for ends rather than means alone such a revolutionary culture would have affirm commitment to the quest for ultimate reality But it would not imagine that any one set of religious or philosophical symbols or beliefs can adequately express that reality.

Part of what I said in my letter was that I had a higher regard for the citizens of our town than to think that they would attack some one over a peace symbol.

Other than public buildings which by design are free from religious symbols, where any NYC is religious expression on private property (excepting zoning for signage size and auxiliary structures) prohibited?

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Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby (Gen 18:2 NIV)»... Furthermore, there is a good reason to study the old Orient, the rituals and cultures of the Middel East, especially at that time,,, i myself being Half Egyptian and having been raised there, am blessed with this foreknowledge for certain things that are still the same way now as they were at th etime of Jesus and earlier,,, where Men kiss to greet one another for example,,, so when King David talks about the love of Jonathan being greater than that of a woman,,, and at the same time knowing that the Hebrew litreature (as the Arabian culture to quite an extent still is) was very poetic and used éndless symbols and parabels to express an idea,,, one might do himself a favor not jumping to conclusions which satisfy only his very own ideas and thoughts,,, the biggest problem with Bible interpretations lately is Verses ripped out of the context and interpreted in such a way that has nothing to do with its original context... «To the law and to the testimony!

Rather than asking what symbolism does for the individual or where it is located within the individual's consciousness, we ask how symbols themselves are arranged and related to one another.

And what perfect timing: With the start of a new year bright with possibilities and resolutions for good luck, good health, and prosperity, there is no better symbol than the almond.

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Winegrowers for more than 30 years, the Buttery family is a symbol for sustainable, generational farming.

He ignores everything, he doesn't care if we like him or not, all he craves is power and if you haven't realized it yet, than I don't think any more evidence will convince you, because we've become a symbol for failure.

The problem is, Clegg says, he didn't understand the importance of the political symbols, from the Rose Garden press conference with Cameron (which came across as more bromance than business) to his acceptance of a nothingy office with no front entrance (Cameron refused to allow him to use Downing Street as a backdrop for media interviews).

Gordon said he would be a better symbol for the party than someone with a wealthy background.

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.

A different set of spectral peculiarity symbols are used for white dwarfs than for other types of stars:

Cast iron cookware Lodge cast iron cookware has been a symbol of old - fashioned quality for more than 100 years.

Blood magic would do far more harm than a reiki symbol, most people understand the basic premise enough to carry it out in a basic curse, and I believe that since reiki is for the highest good it can't really be used in that capacity anyway.

Denim would become a symbol for the new youth fashion and is still to this date more associated with attitude and edge rather than preppy and done.

And sugar daddy men are generally on the superficial side of things, and frankly, they're usually not very capable of enjoying a lady for more than her physical or «status symbol» attributes.

If, as the FBI and other criminologists maintain, the tools for detecting clues at serial murder crime sites have much in common with the analysis of literature — namely the need to discern, categorize and collate motifs and symbols into a coherent whole — then such skills are more important to police officers than ever before.

For Hannes Jaenicke, tough - guy actor and animal welfare campaigner, polar bears are more than a symbol of global warming and shrinking Arctic ice.