Languages are systems of symbols; writing is a system for symbolizing these symbols.
A figurehead could be a religious symbol, a national emblem, or a figure symbolizing the ship's name.
With deft white and red brush strokes, the Pakistani artist Imran Qureshi has worked into the raw paint a pattern suggestive of leafy shrubbery and flower petals, turning the whole into a politically fraught, allegorical mix symbolizing dualities of life and death and hope and despair.
In art Paul is often represented with a palm tree, symbolizing the source of his sustenance, or with two lions, who allegedly dug his grave.
From a military point of view, the most significant defeat of the Serbian states took place in the Battle of the Maritsa River at Chernomen in 1371, but it is the defeat in 1389 of a combined army of Serbs, Albanians, and Hungarians under Lazar at the Battle of Kosovo that has been preserved in legend as symbolizing the subordination of the Balkan Slavs to the "Ottoman yoke".
Symbolizing the government's increasingly Confucian-inspired moral agenda, China's legislature passed a law that required adult children to visit their parents more often.
His name was given to 21 French towns and later, as a gesture symbolizing the continuity between the French and Russian revolutions, to one of the first battleships in the Soviet navy.
During Advent, a period including the four Sundays before Christmas, a wreath with four candles (each symbolizing one of the Advent Sundays) is traditionally hung in Christian homes and churches.
Following colonial patterns, churches often are found in the most prominent places of the towns and villages, symbolizing their traditional central role in social life.
Joseph was commanded to make a table in commemoration of the Last Supper and to leave one place vacant, symbolizing the seat of Judas, who had betrayed Christ.
They consist of an ankle-length divided skirt (hakama) in white, light blue, or purple, depending on rank; a kimono in white, symbolizing purity, and of which there are various types; and a large-sleeved outer robe of various colours that is frequently a kariginu, or hunting garment, as used in the Heian period (794 1185).
