Sentences with phrase «value as a symbol»

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During a divisive time in our country, Starbucks wanted to create a symbol of unity as a reminder of our shared values, and the need to be good to each other.»

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Premier Markus Soder said crosses should not be seen as religious symbols but as a «clear avowal of our Bavarian identity and Christian values».

«The defamation of religion, its symbols and teachings is incompatible with Christian values, the teaching of Jesus Christ and the apostles as is demonstrated in the Bible,» the statement continued, «so those who participate in such a production, display or promotion of such a films should be held fully accountable for operating outside of Christian principles and church laws.»

The Christ figure may continue as a symbol embodying various important values, such as compassion, love, and caring for one's neighbor.

Those symbols are of value only as a reminder or an occasion in which the hidden meanings are realized.

Despite its religious value, I believe it is also culturally significant as a symbol of remembering those who have fallen.

But the value of the nursing breast as a symbol of God's provision might need to be reconsidered in our own time, a time in which the technological capacity for, and interest in, objectifying women's bodies contributes to eating disorders among young women as well as to rape.

We do better to follow the suggestion of Prof. Hartshorne who on one occasion remarked to me that this doctrine, like the traditional ones of incarnation and atonement, should be seen as valued, historically - freighted symbols that provide insight into God and God's ways in the creation.

But as I urged above, it would be wrong (in my judgment) to try to interpret all this too literally and logically; Prof. Hartshorne was right, I said, in saying that the symbol of the divine Triunity, like the «incarnation» and «atonement» as symbols, is much more appropriately retained as a symbol, as imaginative proclamation; it can then retain its indicative and suggestive value without our seeking to phrase it in the idiom of some particular philosophy or world view.

The oxymoron as a symbol for God has another value: it reminds us that the word «God» is equivocal.

Today the environment within which most of us live and work is a media environment, an over-arching web of mediated symbols, processes, stories and values that surrounds, gives shape to, and interprets most things we do as individuals and as a society.

As has been defined by Arvind P. Nirmal, religion, for me, is a «symbol - system» that not only reflects the world - view of the adherent community in talks and rituals but also has a profound influence on the very value - system of the community.9 And since the data consists mostly of observations by others I would pick up cultic practices like festivals and related rituals.

Looking primarily to models based on quantitative research methodologies to provide a clear direction for policy in regulating media and violence can also distract policy makers from coming to grips with other difficult but more important value questions that impinge on the issue of media and violence, such as the purpose of broadcasting, issues of ownership and control of media, the international context of Australian media, the dominant economic nature of most of Australia's social communications, the distinctive ways in which the media reproduce and reconstruct myths and symbols of violence from within the culture, and how audiences use and respond to media myths and symbols.

@ Phil: good clarification, but as a materialist (strictly not believing in the spiritual), you do still build your life around symbol (see the American Atheists logo, for example, which conveys shared values in symbol) & ideology.

Many of the central values and symbols of New England society were brought under attack directly or indirectly by the Great Awakening, the first expression of Revivalism in American culture.24 Each of the basic symbols and beliefs that marked the center of New England Puritan culture will be reviewed insofar as they were modified or attacked by the Great Awakening.

Though the converts of the Great Awakening were committed to the same central grouping of values and symbols as were the Puritans, they tended to hold these with a degree of absoluteness which made them highly critical of the elite in society who symbolized those values but did not live them fully and completely.

Central to the matrix of New England Puritan values and beliefs was the symbol of Parliament as the guardian and repository of English liberties and responsibilities.

Revivalism, which emerged in part out of Puritanism, shared most of the central beliefs and symbols of Puritanism itself; however, the Great Awakening held and embodied these same beliefs in such a way that the believers tended to be highly critical of those same values and beliefs as embodied in the contemporary elite of the day.

Seven or eight basic symbols, beliefs, or values were closely articulated to form the center as well as the peripheral structure of Puritan society.

Allowing kids to count concrete items, such as gold coins, while teaching young kids the concept of greater than or less than lets them perceive numbers as the value it represents and not just a symbol.

Ndume described the APC flag bearer in the Osun West by - election as a symbol of good governance whose wealth of experience had added much value to the senate while he represented his people in the last dispensation.

There are a lot of folks across the country who have come to see Cuomo as a symbol of the Democrats» hostility to the use of our nation's oil and gas resources and who resent his positions on guns and traditional values,» said a prominent Republican activist.

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz says as the son of a steel worker, he believes the sign is a symbol of hard work, family values and a strong community.

In management research, we've tended to define it as work in which value is created primarily through manipulation of ideas or symbols, and which occurs primarily in intellectual domains.

They define school culture as an «underground flow of feelings and folkways [wending] its way within schools» in the form of vision and values, beliefs and assumptions, rituals and ceremonies, history and stories, and physical symbols.

The term, as we use it, answers to no real thing, but merely serves as an algebraical symbol for comparing the values of products with one another.

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Italy (ticker symbol NYSE: EWI) leads as the best value with an average price - to - earnings ratio of 11.2 and a low price - to - book - value of 1.

Remember to always trade on commodities that you are able to keep abreast of their key components such as contract value, margin requirements and know the ticker symbol (for this example we will use this: COTTON # 2 @ 70.39).

The importance placed on property ownership, both as a hold of value and as a status symbol, is amplified by Asian immigrants who are more likely to own their own home and have property investments — a key reason why as many as 81 % of immigrant poll respondents say they feel happily middle class.

For ETFs, it emphasizes higher - fee ETFs in niche investment areas, such as Global X S&P 500 Catholic Values (symbol CATH) and WisdomTree Managed Futures Strategy (WDTI).

The little lionlike dogs that followed their Lama masters were regarded as symbols of the sacred lion and were thus highly valued.

First vilified as killers in life and fable, then romanticized as symbols of freedom and environmental purity, wolves stir up love - hate relationships that may have little or nothing to do with their actual character and value to the precarious balance of nature.

When pet stores in Turkey began importing lots of puppies, more and more people purchased them and, becoming «common,» they lost their standing as a status symbol and were no longer valued.

Bickerton rose to prominence as part of the 1980's New York East Village art scene, with works that layered the reductive formalist aesthetic of minimalism with signs, symbols, and logos, as a means to examine commodity and value.

The architecture takes on a symbolic value thanks to the writing, and it is the signs that create the field of correspondences... In Learning from Las Vegas, Venturi / Brown / Izenour proclaimed the sign as being the organizing element of movements in space, and they succeeded in demonstrating the ways in which modernism uses graphic signs and symbols so that space can be oriented in a precise direction.

Made To Be Destroyed reasserts art as a symbol of institutional order and an establishment of value.

These motifs, as symbols of value and culture in successive eras, accompany the developing brushwork to question the relevance of tradition in contemporary society and within the evolution of oil painting.»

His sculptures which investigate the value of ordinary objects as symbols and imagery of Southern Africa's recent tumultuous times, encourage the viewer to question how an individual piece relates to the whole.

Gantt Center Teaching Artist, Paul Miller, will lead families and individuals through this drop - in workshop that demonstrates the value of symbols, colors and shapes as they relate to abstraction.

Opening in October at Red Bull Arts New York, her multimedia presentation «Cloud of Petals» explores big data and the value of beauty, as well as issues of replication, perfection, and artificial intelligence, all based on that timeless symbol of beauty — the rose.

Miller's gewgaws can be seen as modern equivalents to Warhol's dollar - sign paintings and Daniel Buren's stripes — fetishes that have no inherent value in themselves but that externalize unconsciousness, destabilize our relationship to art, and are vivid symbols for their own status as placeholders for the rich.

The effect is one of sheer beauty, but Lou's convictions are worked into the very structure of this abstract grid: beads as symbols of solidarity linking the values of feminism, hand - making, and physical labor.

Using the book as a symbol for knowledge, Benes conceals the information inherent to the object's purpose either as cheeky irreverence or as a commentary on American cultural values.

Referencing the commodification of nationalist symbols alongside systems of trade, this display questions the inherent value of these symbols as contexts shift from the political to the artistic to the everyday.

Each drawing, produced through the use of machinery, acts as a discrete symbol for artistic, economic, or social principals that, when viewed as a group, addresses contemporary narratives of personal anxiety, globalism versus nativism, and the perception of value, especially that of fine art.

Trained as a painter and introduced to conceptual art in college, Charlesworth developed a deeper interest in photography and its ability to deconstruct our shared symbols and public imagery in ways that articulate and question the values and beliefs of our culture.

It is hard to see just how wearing a religious symbol necessarily impacts the neutrality of a state employee, or how taking off such a symbol between 9 AM and 5 PM on weekdays removes any bias of conscience (as a reminder, the Charter of Values would not only apply to those employees making decisions, such as judges, but also, for example, some teachers).

As surely everyone in Canada will know there's currently an attempt in Québec to impose a «charter of values» that would restrict the ability of some government employees to wear conspicuous religious symbols.