Sentence examples for symbolic focus from inspiring English sources

T-shirts have recently taken on a symbolic focus in the Premier League.

The Tibetan government-in-exile is the symbolic focus of the country's statehood, maintaining legal continuity from the days when it ran a real country.

Her evocation of a paradisiacal state of grace, in which Ms. Day is the symbolic focus, is not as frivolous as some might imagine.

A local primary school facing closure has now become the symbolic focus for parents of the "big, bad face of the private sector".

The suppression by the police of an antigovernment demonstration outside Parliament on Oct. 7 at which two people were killed and nearly 500 were injured has only swelled the anger of the protesters and given them a symbolic focus.

Up until his death, he had been working on a project to erect a statue of Nelson Mandela in Trafalgar Square, once a symbolic focus of anti-apartheid protests because it housed the hated South African high commission.

In contemporary philosophy, notably in the work of psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, this evolved into the distinction between the imaginary (focussed on images or φαντάσματα) and the symbolic (focussed on symbols or signifiers: on γράμματα).

Instead, a popular approach was "symbolic" AI: focusing on building logical paradigms which could be generalised, and then fed information about the real world to teach them more.

Studies of gender as a symbolic system focused on the roles that men and women played, on ideas about what constituted a proper man or woman in a particular culture, and on how differences between men and women were perceived in that culture.

The later German monuments constructed by the Nazi government were substantial, but communicated a limited range of symbolic messages, focusing on German heroism, conservative nationalism sentiments and masculinity.

The global and symbolic concept focuses on mobilizing youth for the promotion of the Olympic ideals; utilizing sport to establish contacts between communities in conflict; offer humanitarian support in countries at war, and more generally, to create a window of opportunities for dialogue and reconciliation.