Word: symbolization
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...small nation. But for our entire history Prague has been the shield and symbol of Czechoslovakia. Outsiders have always tried to bring Prague down with military force. We have always resisted. That is why we love Prague, in addition to its beauty. Besides, it is prettier than New York...
Christmas is a religious holiday, celebrating an event uniquely important to the Christian faith. The creche is a symbol of that religious holiday. The Supreme Court, though, decided that Christmas is a seasonal holiday as well, and as such, the creche a seasonal symbol. We agree that Christmas has become a secularized, even commercialized, affair and acknowledge that holiday decorations are a familiar, unthreatening fixture...
...creche cannot be considered secular in any way, and we therefore consider the Court's reasoning offensive to Christians, for it trivializes the significance of a hallowed symbol...
...marble and granite U.S. embassy on Rome's Via Veneto could have shared the fate of the American embassy in Beirut last September. The police teams uncovered a cell of Islamic extremists who seemed to be on the verge of executing yet another bomb attack on a symbol of U.S. authority. The plot may have been the one brazenly promised by the shadowy Islamic Jihad group two days before the U.S. presidential election, when the terrorists promised to mount a violent operation that would "surprise" the Americans...
...protesters were picketing Deak-Perera because "they import and sell the South African Kruggerand which is a significant symbol of South Africa's repressive policy and it also aids the financial stability of South Africa," Bolling said...