Sentence examples for symbol against from inspiring English sources

The one general pattern that may be noted is the use of a religious or political symbol against a background of a solid colour.

Journalists held up their press cards as members of the public silently raised pens in the air in a poignant symbol against what is being seen as an attack on freedom of speech.

Offstage, vendors hawked vintage Mao buttons, bunny ears, glow sticks, neon-colored clown wigs, penis-shaped water guns and stuffed "grass-mud horses," a mythical creature that has become a protest symbol against Internet censorship.

But while it is temptingly neat to plot the bikini's fall as a status symbol against the rise of modesty wear as a political issue, the reality is not that simple.

I don't buy that she's become a sex symbol against her will.

It was depicted in art on the walls of tombs, and figured in funerary texts, as a protective symbol against snakes.

Bolaño sprints into the teeth of his conundrum, violating one of the foremost writing-school injunctions, against writer-as-protagonist (in fact, Bolaño seems to make sport of violating nearly all of the foremost writing-school rules, against dream sequences, against mirrors as symbols, against barely disguised nods to his acquaintances, and so on).

At the weekend Sarah Palin's sometime spokeswoman Rebecca Mansour gave an unconvincing defence of the map that had been removed from the SarahPac site, featuring target symbols against Democrats including Gabrielle Giffords who voted for the healthcare bill "We never ever, ever intended it to be gun sights," she said about five minutes into the interview with the radio talkshow host Tammy Bruce.

These extrapolated PREs are plotted in Figure 4 (green symbols) against the Pc residue number.

Mouse genes were annotated by cross-referencing mouse gene symbols against the following functional annotation databases: mouse Gene Ontology annotations [ 73], DBD [ 74], TFCat [ 75], IMMPORT [ 76], and Immunome [ 77].

A chiselled symbol of triumph-against-adversity with a million-dollar smile and multimillion-dollar endorsements.