Sentence examples for overt symbols from inspiring English sources

The building is packed with overt symbols of national identity.

This is nothing to do with logos or overt symbols.

The show's two main characters, both flawed policemen, are overt symbols of the city.

Except for certain overt symbols of nature or religion, Gaudí's buildings became essentially representations of their structure and materials.

The economy relies on such overt symbols of liberalism, with thousands of Saudis coming for the weekend to enjoy the relaxed drinking laws.

Circa 2004, France banned all overt symbols of religious expression in schools.

She was as vivacious as a marble statue and as appealing as a mummy — an overt symbol of the death that all good fashion designers, according to the psychiatrists, unconsciously wish to visit on womankind.

Van Gogh's Skull with Burning Cigarette is an overt symbol of Lucious' struggle with death.

Cases like the one in France have been portrayed as a defense of the secular state -- the need to keep overt religious symbols out of state schools.

More controversially, she proposed a secularism charter banning public service employees from wearing overt religious symbols, like the Jewish yarmulke and the Muslim hijab.

The slippery slope of such restrictions first came into view with a law in 2004 that banned the wearing of overt religious symbols in public primary and secondary schools.