Sentence examples for mere symbols from inspiring English sources

By this logic not always wrong, by the way, but badly applied in the majority of cases if we wonder why humans seem so willing to accept mere symbols of value in executing their commerce, we should look for examples of symbolic exchange in nature, and then postulate a common source or cause.

The acts themselves are mere symbols of the universe's unspeakable horror.

Yet the research also found that mere symbols of of good faith can be unexpectedly decisive.

He argues that the triumph of the image spells death to politics and reduces people to mere symbols.

No longer mere symbols of ambition and triumph, they now also inspire a sense of vulnerability, fear and mortality.

To do otherwise is to reduce change to mere symbols and gestures that risk leaving structural inequalities unchanged.

In the north European countries the portico had become a mere symbol, often closed, or merely hinted at in the design by pilasters, and sometimes in very late examples of English Palladianism adapted to become a porte-cochere; in America, the Palladian portico regained its full glory.

That is more than a mere symbol.

Thus, contrary to strong AI, real understanding cannot be a matter of mere symbol manipulation.

Emperor Akihito is officially described as a mere symbol of the state with no governing powers.

The Irishfathers are even more unlike; the plaintiff's a mere symbol forreligious fanaticism and patriarchal pride, scarcely a character atall.