Sentence examples for bad symbol from inspiring English sources

"Yet, they're a symbol of a time in history that was not democratic, so they're a bad symbol".

In a bigger shift from his campaign pledge to end earmarks, he tells me that they are a bad "symbol" of easy spending but that he will fight for Kentucky's share of earmarks and federal pork, as long as it's doled out transparently at the committee level and not parachuted in in the dead of night.

And there is incidentally a PhD thesis to be written, or at least an MA dissertation, on the easy deployment of cocaine as an instant "bad guy" symbol.

Other bad-boy symbols, including moonshine bottles and slot machine cherries, can be found here and there, and a popular Fair Isle sweater is woven with a print of reclining trucker mudflap girls ($298).

When he appeared, he was no longer the bad-boy sex symbol he was, but a portly-looking character in long blond dreadlocks and a succession of giant sports jerseys.

To Rosie, the Alamo is a symbol of bad times.

"[A] lone woman," she later wrote, "is an embarrassment to a boatload of men, a very symbol of bad and leery luck to sailors".

"Imaginary Weapons" wants to make the hafnium bomb a symbol of bad weapons science masquerading as good old American know-how at the Pentagon.

Long dismissed as a symbol of bad taste, the pinkie ring, with its associations to cheese balls and Joe Pesci, seemed too felonious to overlook.

"I'm in this race because I think it's time we start investing in the United States of America again," he told the Hamden crowd, alluding to the war in Iraq as a symbol of "bad choices".

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