Sentence examples for seen as signifying from inspiring English sources
Its vibrant cosmopolitan flavour, its commercial centre, its Mediterranean beaches, its liberal society and culture, are seen as signifying a truly commendable Zionist enterprise.
I was never a goth, but I was an emo teenager and remember the fashion always being seen as signifying something problematic when it was more about belonging and identity.
While Democratic victories are seen as signifying nothing about the electorate's fundamental beliefs, Republican victories are inevitably described as revealing profound sea changes in American ideology.
However, the coding categories we used in the content analysis were intentionally broad and required simply a mention of culture or Aboriginality to be seen as signifying the Supervisor would provide teaching around cultural competence and Aboriginal health, thus attempting to allow for these limitations.
More important, at this stage in a fluid, multicandidate race, club endorsements are seen as signifying momentum, which is the main reason candidates work so hard to get them.
A tax rate could be seen as just a number signifying an expense, but now it's a marker in a culture war.
The pentangle on Gawain's shield is seen by many critics as signifying Gawain's perfection and power over evil.
The Leaper is a long, lithe cat, usually seen as a hood ornament; it signifies feline grace.
The experts, including the academic John Sutherland and the historian and author Amanda Vickery, commissioned by the Drama Channel to come up with the Darcy Austen might have envisaged, conclude that a tanned complexion, broad shoulders and muscular chest would not have been seen as attractive by Austen's Georgians, signifying a hardworking outdoor labourer, not a gentleman of leisure.
(K1 87; italics added) Given the fact that Halevi was an accomplished poet and sensitive to the nuances of language, there is every reason to suppose that he knew that "seeing" and "seeing as" do not signify the same kind of activity.
Physically frail but cleareyed, and in love with the sea and all it signifies, she can also be seen as an alter ego for O'Neill, quite possibly more than any female character in his major works.
