The other key staffing decision was to replace the widely discredited Tarcisio Bertone as secretary of state –a symbolic and practical move Francis must hope will draw a line under an era of scandal and incompetence.
I base my strong preference for the Think team's proposal on its capacity to give this process of public education both a symbolic and a practical form.
Union endorsements would give Clinton and Sanders both a symbolic and a practical boost given labor's traditional role in raising money and mobilizing voters for the Democratic Party.
Meanwhile, hundreds of tents, in the spirit of the global occupy movement, stand outside parliament, a symbolic and practical means of keeping it accountable.
I, for one, hereby volunteer to help drape tarps over the ice cliffs of Kilimanjaro, as a symbolic (and practical) act toward saving the planet.
The mask is thus a symbolic and practical rejection of the individual identities that parties and states require in order to "represent" their members.
In order to draw attention to this disparity, and make a symbolic and practical change, every time the MCCs are asked to speak at a public forum, they ask the event organizers to ensure that women are equally represented.
So the trial of Laurent Fabius, a former prime minister, Georgina Dufoix, his former social-affairs minister, and Edmond Hervé, a former health minister, charged with manslaughter and criminal negligence as part of a long-running scandal about HIV-contaminated blood, was both a symbolic and a practical test of the Court of Justice of the Republic, assembled for the first time for this purpose.
In James's case, the storyline of Fifty Shades "stages many of the aporias of the sexual relationships between men and women", she believes, with the sadomasochistic relationship at its heart "both a symbolic solution for and a practical technique to overcome these aporias".
Condace Pressley, the Atlanta radio journalist who is midway through her two-year term as president, said she was working to poll the membership on what it wants out of the convention -- a gathering that has both symbolic and practical importance, since two-thirds of the group's $1.7 million budget comes from convention dues and sponsorships.
