Architecturally the tower is a theme park throwback to 18th-century architecture parlance: a symbol of defiance aimed at indifference.
Kingship was the unifying political institution in the Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa periods, a symbol of the aims and achievements of the Sinhalese people.
Nanjing had become a symbol of national authority, aiming not only to become a model of modernization for the rest of China, but also to surpass Paris, London, and Washington.
As Willi Jasper, in a fine new book ("Faust und die Deutschen"; Rowohlt), points out, Faust's duality became a symbol of the national propensity to aim for the stars and plunge into the depths.
I think that this was a frank symbol of what Cunningham has always aimed for: a cross between abstraction and feeling, math and flesh.
In the Black Belt, she surfaced as an Obama-generation symbol of hope, proof that rural Alabamians could aim for Princeton and Harvard.
These skills turn her into a symbol of hope, one the tyrannical Jean de Men aims to destroy.
So although it seems like a joke, the spamusement park aims to be a symbol of civic pride.
His aim is both to create a symbol of Islamic culture and to forge a common heritage for the citizens of Qatar and the region.
The pipeline was a symbol of the two countries' independence from "those who only aim to humiliate us, and break us apart, and dominate us..
It was the boxy family hauler aimed at harried soccer moms, a symbol of the soul-crushing conformity that was the price Americans paid for suburban comfort.
