Sentence examples for a negative symbol from inspiring English sources

"For the Hill District, it's a negative symbol," he said.

"The only thing more potent than drugs as a negative symbol is cancer," a medical-marijuana advocate told Kleiman at the time.

"Guantánamo is a negative symbol, but it is much diminished because we are seen as trying to close it," the official said.

While withdrawing from Eurovision lacks the gravity of walking out of peace talks or the Olympics, it is a negative symbol in a delicate and long-running effort to demilitarize one of the most intractable ethnic conflicts in the former Soviet Union.

They resist building an Islamic Center with a mosque near Ground Zero because their limited experience can interpret the Islamic Center only as a negative symbol.

The most notable of these was the self-immolation of Thích Quảng Đức on June 11, which was iconically photographed by the media and became a negative symbol of the Diệm régime.

With its unpretentious décor, it could be mistaken for a doctor's waiting room, but McCarthy's mission is signalled by a framed print on the wall that depicts a look-alike of President George W. Bush tearfully proclaiming, "I can't help it — I'm such a compassionate conservative!" McCarthy is known for his ability to distill a complicated subject into a simple, potent, and usually negative symbol.

Murderous cartels may be an even more potent negative symbol than cancer.

Many pregnancy tests show the results with either a plus (positive) or minus (negative) symbol in red or blue.

"To honor Snooty's legacy as a positive icon in Bradenton, I propose that the negative symbol of racism and oppression that is the Confederate monument be relocated and replaced with a statue of Snooty".

The negative symbol signified suppression of the proteins and a value of 1.00 indicates the complete absence of this protein in the aqueous Phyllanthus-treated sample as compared to the untreated-control sample and the degree of suppression reduces as the value increases.