The symbolic idea is that their service is complete, and it's time to return them to where they belong.
I've always liked lighting candles on the nine-branched candlestick, called a chanukiah, and the symbolic idea of lighting up the dark.
But Hollande's critics say the measure would have little practical effect in dissuading terrorists and risks stigmatising people further by creating the symbolic idea of a two-tier French state where certain citizens are worth more than others.
When the Gestalt psychologist and fellow German Wolfgang Köhler read Morgenstern's poem, in the nineteen-twenties, he was moved to suggest that words convey symbolic ideas beyond their meaning.
Views of Egypt were dominated by the classical tradition that it was the land of ancient wisdom; this wisdom was thought to inhere in the hieroglyphic script, which was believed to impart profound symbolic ideas, not as it in fact does the sounds and words of texts.
Since beginning two weeks ago, the deficit in these vernacular phrases has affected nearly every English speaker on the continent, making it virtually impossible to communicate symbolic ideas through a series of words that do not individually share the same meaning as the group of words as a whole.
In his efforts to show that all propositions can be shaped into [A has b], Bolzano makes extensive usage of such symbolic ideas (and also of ideas of propositions) as subject ideas of propositions, as it is exemplified under ii, iii and iv above.
As a compass can be adjusted to find the quantitative measure of a variety of sizes and shapes, so our minds are able to fashion, adopt, modify and utilize both the literal and the symbolic ideas and concepts available to us for exploring and understanding the natural, social and conceptual worlds we inherit and extend.
These concepts must also be connected with symbolic ideas, such as capital "B," indicating a dominant allele and small "b," indicating a recessive allele (Johnstone, 1991; Bahar et al., 1999).
Meanings refer to symbolic meanings, ideas and aspirations, such as the value of focal points of heat; competence to skill, know-how and technique, such as the ability to manage radiators and other technologies for heat provision; and things refer to objects, technologies, tangible physical entities, and the stuff of which objects are made.
"It's symbolic of the idea that you are going to hold borough commanders responsible for the crime in their neighborhoods," said Jerome H. Skolnick, a professor at New York University School of Law who teaches a seminar in police practices.
