Sentence examples for negative symbol from inspiring English sources

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

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

"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.

I'm very grateful — and from my point of view, our school has not backed down from being grateful". Taylor said she has always said "Merry Christmas" — and added that here in the South, the shorthand of "Xmas" is strictly frowned upon as it replaces "Christ" with a negative symbol.

In Chinese poetry and through most of Chinese history, the wall was a negative symbol of oppression, cruelty and death, Waldron said — the wall as a symbol of strength and resourcefulness is a part of the myth and misconception of its true history.

The races weren't about the issues or even the candidates who were running but about national political leaders who had become negative symbols.

Either we're taught that through personal consumption of negative symbols we're somehow in control of taking back the past or by embracing certain stereotypes while combating others is progressive.

"I saw that the sport was plagued by this dark, sinister cloud, and as it started to project further, I saw the need for pure, clean clothing that would reflect the true vision of what the sport is really all about". The dark graphic designs depicting skulls and other negative symbols commonly found on men's MMA shirts correspond to the aggressive, over-the-top behavior of some of the fighters.

Although, in these studies, emotional stimuli (both negative and positive) elicited behavioral indices of enhanced exogenous attention capture, this effect disappeared when targets consisted of negative symbols (Barratt & Bundesen, 2012; Fenske & Eastwood, 2003; Horstmann, Borgstedt & Heumann, 2006).

Taken together these diverse findings suggest that negative symbols, such as frowning emoticons, may be detected and processed quicker and deeper due to their diagnostic value to warn people of danger.