In these theories, metaphysical relations are (or are among) the objects of interest; just as we add term-building symbols + and × in formal theories of arithmetic to build numbers, λ is used in property theory to build relations.
The earliest Christians carved community-building symbols on walls and streets.
CONAKRY, Guinea — Chinese and Guinean workers toil shoulder to shoulder on a sun-blasted construction site at this crumbling city's edge, building the latest symbol of an old and sturdy alliance: a $50 million, 50,000-seat stadium.
Driving the trade are rich consumers who desire products of animals, trees, flowers and fish for medicine, souvenirs, status symbols, building materials and food.
We will mark as stations places like the Federal Building, a symbol of the militarism of the country; the soup kitchen, a symbol of those made poor by the militarism of the country; a topless show bar, a symbol of the violence against women that machoism and militarism glorify.
"It was prudent to close the Sears Tower Skydeck as a precautionary measure," said Mr. Daley, who called the building a symbol of the city.
The immediate target was the court building – a symbol, for republicans opposed to the peace process, of imposed British judicial rule.
This charismatic building, a symbol of Australia since its opening in 1973, was declared a Unesco world heritage site in 2007, ranking it in terms of global and historical significance alongside Stonehenge, Chartres Cathedral and the Great Wall of China.
THE magazine Survey called the new building "a symbol of the new day that the business woman sees breaking along her horizon," and others also thought the sun was rising on West 57th Street -- developers filed plans for two hotels of 30 and 45 stories just east of the association's building.
So does the house, which Mr. Wyeth called a dry-bone skeleton of a building, a symbol during the Depression of the American pastoral dream in a minor key, the house's whitewash of paint long gone, its shingles warped, the place isolated against a blank sky.
