Sentence examples for symbol both from inspiring English sources

For years the Suez Canal was a symbol both of exotic convenience and of European imperial might.

It is a symbol both of having arrived and of — just as often — wanting not to be found.

The wheel was the symbol both of the universal monarch and of the Buddha as universal guide and teacher.

Ovechkin, the symbol both of Washington's rise as an annual contender and its failures when the playoffs began, scored just 62 seconds after the puck dropped.

Dominicans have always regarded the pronouncedly phallic obelisk as a symbol both of the Trujillo dictatorship and the code of machismo by which "the Benefactor" ruled and lived.

As the peaceful protest began to take hold all over Czechoslavakia, Havel became a symbol both for those protesting in the country, and the world watching from outside.

Dolls hold a fascination for us, symbols both of innocence and corruption, death-like miniature people, as likely to inspire revulsion as love.

They are symbols of regional co-operation, but Mr Obama's no-show turned them into symbols both of gridlocked politics in Washington and of the difficulties facing Mr Obama's strategic "pivot" to Asia and the Pacific.

Learning symbols, both letters and symbols, is completely artificial.

Following the training symbols, both nodes transmit payload symbols simultaneously.

The first is the child's engagement with the caregiver in activities involving symbols, both words and gestures.