Sentence examples for symbolic affirmation from inspiring English sources
The decision to raise Russia's tricolor in Staropromyslovsky was intended as a symbolic affirmation of Russian progress.
Here is the passage that reflects the core homophobia - and yes, I see no alternative to using that word - in that magazine: Same-sex couples will also receive the symbolic affirmation of being treated by the state as equivalent to a traditional married couple — but this spurious equality is a cost of the new laws, not a benefit.
That was not Lincoln's choice of inscription, and although the very suggestion of black citizenship could repel and inspire his contemporaries in equal measure, it is doubtful that an antislavery moderate would have deployed it as some kind of symbolic affirmation or withheld it as a calculated snub.
When state action extends symbolic affirmation to some groups and not others in establishing the state language and public symbols ad holidays, it has a normalizing effect, suggesting that one group's language and customs are more valued than those of other groups.
This double award marked the first time that a laqab incorporating the prestigious element al-Dawla were granted to anyone other than the wazir, the Caliphate's chief minister, and was a symbolic affirmation of the military's predominance over the civil bureaucracy.
Public ceremonies such as the planting of "trees of liberty" in small villages and the Festival of Federation, held in Paris in 1790 on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille, were symbolic affirmations of the new order.
Concerned primarily with simple symbolic affirmations of salvation and eternal life, and repelled by the ignominy of the punishment, the early Christians did not represent the Crucifixion realistically before the 5th century; instead, the event was symbolized first by a lamb and, after the official recognition of Christianity by the Roman state in the early 4th century, by a jewelled cross.
It raises questions about symbolic value, place and placement, private belief and public statement and affirmation, at the occasion of the millennium.
But they also crave the symbolic value of her appointment, which almost certainly would cause a partisan confirmation battle, as an affirmation that the White House is committed to imposing significant new restrictions on the financial industry.
