Sentence examples for understood symbol of from inspiring English sources
It is a globally understood symbol of something precious, fragile and rare.
And Air Force One has become in itself something of a myth, as Peter Conrad argues in entertaining style: a globally understood symbol of the US president's thrusting potency and command of the skies.
Smiles are a universally understood symbol of friendliness.
Images of trench warfare in soldiers who experience sectors of high military activity became widely understood symbols of human suffering and endurance....The twentieth century and many horrors, but images of the First World War remained among the most powerful at the centuries end....The war was traumatic for many who fought in it.
The footage was uploaded in 2012, and appears to come from the same year — long before the flag took off as a widely-understood symbol of Isis.
I was, I understood, a symbol of transition and hope.
"She understood the symbols of authority, the need for some semblance of national majesty after the disaster," Manchester wrote; whether she agreed explicitly or not, there was an understanding that when Johnson took the oath she would be present.
It was strange to see something generally understood as a symbol of beauty and status, shoved into a dank, fleshy hole.
Indeed, time is a major force in the movie, and the slightly metronomic aspect of the Schubert fantasy suggests that it may also be understood as a symbol of fate.
Having said all this, however, and noting the continuance of the conciliar tradition in Orthodox Catholicism, the author would graciously concede, just as Wills does, that the papacy, properly understood, remains a symbol of Christian unity that all Christians may honor.
