"The pier is a standing symbol of impermanence and change," Dike says.
The Cyclone, arguably the Boardwalk's greatest standing symbol, is scary for all the wrong reasons, creaking and groaning to remind riders of its age and wooden construction, the selling points that brought them aboard in the first place.
"The NAACP applauds the South Carolina legislature for voting to remove the Confederate battle flag – one of the longest standing symbols of hatred and exclusion – from public spaces and state capitol grounds today," Cornell William Brooks, the group's president and CEO, said in a statement.
"The NAACP applauds the South Carolina legislature for voting to remove the Confederate Battle flag — one of the longest standing symbols of hatred and exclusion — from public spaces and state grounds today," Brooks said.
Activists had pressed for months to get the flag — a long-standing symbol of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community — hoisted atop the flagpole adjacent to the national monument that President Barack Obama designated last year to commemorate the LGBT civil rights movement.
Image caption The Tote is a long-standing symbol of British horse racing.
The Tote, founded in 1928, is a long-standing symbol of British horse racing.
In conjunction with this call to action, State Street placed a bronze statue of a determined young girl staring down the sculpture, Charging Bull - a long-standing symbol of Wall Street - in Bowling Green Park in Lower Manhattan.
In a personal boycott of the Mongol regime, with its prejudicial attitude toward many native-born Chinese scholars, Ni took to living a fugitive's life on houseboat, always on the move, painting soundless little vistas of river and sky, with thin bare trees standing as symbols of his own rectitudinous isolation.
HEMPSTEAD -- "Standing Strong: A Symbol of Haitian Pride"; through July 30; African-American Museum, North Franklin Street.
"I am standing as a symbol of the Constitution," Mulloli told the court, against "the might of an N.G.O. on the other side — Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, they have their support.
