Sentence examples for symbol of concern from inspiring English sources

"When I saw him wearing that pink ribbon the other day, it turned my stomach," Ms. Nannery, referring to the pastel symbol of concern about the disease, said yesterday on the phone.

Apparently a visual symbol of concern can take on a value completely independent from whatever it was the buyer was supposed to be concerned about in the first place.

He wore a pink ribbon, a symbol of concern for the disease, and frequently had at his side the breast cancer research advocate Geri Barish, who narrates the advertisement attacking Mr. McCain.

Quicker than you can tie a red, blue and yellow ribbon -- the symbol of concern for Haiti -- celebrities rose to George Clooney's call for a telethon to aid that nation's earthquake victims, to be shown Friday night on a hundred networks and myriad Web sites around the world.

For at the same time that trusteeship in a prestigious university was increasingly becoming an important symbol of business prominence, a growing concern among scholars about the excesses of commerce and industry generated new forms of research, particularly in the social sciences, that were often sharply critical of the means by which these trustee-philanthropists had amassed their wealth.

Holding up planes is a modest, but unmistakable, symbol of that concern — "an inside fastball to the military," in the words of a Pentagon official.

But the flag has long since become a symbol of Americans' concern for missing or imprisoned American soldiers from all wars.

For many Mexicans, Mr. Pascual had become a symbol of longstanding concerns.

The pipeline has become an unexpected flashpoint, a symbol of conflicting concerns about job creation and energy reliability on the one hand, and environmental protection and climate change on the other.

CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico — The killing of an American consulate worker and her husband over the weekend in the shadow of the bridge that links this ramshackle city with the United States has become a public symbol of the mounting concern here that President Felipe Calderón's strategy for attacking Mexico's drug cartels is veering far off course.

The rare Bechstein's bat has emerged as a symbol of the environmental concerns.