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How to use the word SYMBOLS in a Sentence?

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In interpretation, we really don’t believe there are universal symbols, but that (it’s) what an individual’s own sort of personal symbol system is and their associations to something are.

Deirdre Barrett

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is like solving a very large crossword puzzle, most of the effort was spent on transcribing the ciphered letters (150,000 symbols in total), and interpreting them — 50,000 words, enough to fill a book.

George Lasry

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In this incredibly polarized America with hate crimes on the rise, we shouldn’t differentiate between symbols of racism. Hate is hate.

Gavin Newsom

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Parents, and rightfully so, are very upset about it, it's just another example that antisemitism still exists. And people may not know all the Nazi symbols and may not know all the different things that are going to upset people, but we have to be aware of these things.

Marty Gilbert

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We need Victoria Spartz support, even at the level of symbols and diplomatic gestures. Please come back, everybody who is brave, please come back to our capital and continue working.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think it is one of the symbols of resistance, it gives them hope, people are resisting and defending their homeland from an illegal occupation and... if you want independence you have to be able to stand up and resist and I think that's what the brave people of Ukraine and leadership has done.

Selcuk Bayraktar

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He knew there was a much higher plan and much higher purpose. He believes strongly in his relationship with God, rush always said that this audience meant everything to him, and we want that to carry on and make sure that we continue our American values, that we continue to have pride for our symbols.

Kathryn Limbaugh

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We’ve witnessed the desecration of cherished monuments, like the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the Terry Fox Statue, displays of hate symbols, like the Confederate flag and the swastika, and all types of bad behavior that have taken away the freedom of our residents to live without fear, many residents have not slept for days due to the noise and disruptions. Many have been shut in by the crowds – a lockdown imposed by the protest itself.

Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I never thought in my lifetime, I would see Richmond and Charlottesville get rid of their statues, they're idols of white supremacy and symbols of racism and hate. And for me as a Christian, and many other faiths feel this way too, we can't have idols in our public square. That just doesn't square right with what we're trying to do as a community, as a state, a commonwealth or a nation.

Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee

Found on CNN
2 years ago

On the gemstone is engraved an image of the ‘Good Shepherd,’ which is really one of the earliest symbols of Christianity.

Robert Cole

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Besides being against the law, it is just plain wrong to outright denigrate something as serious as a real hate crime and then make sure it involved words and symbols that have such historical significance in our country.

Dan Webb

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Plenty of people get tattoos, jewelry, insignia patches, it's become one of the most common modern White supremacy symbols.

Mark Pitcavage

Found on CNN
2 years ago

For Forrest Dunbar and most Jews, seeing the yellow Star of David on someone's chest elicits the same feeling as seeing a swastika on a flag or the SS insignia on a uniform, it is a symbol of hate that reminds us Jews of the terror and horror we suffered. I believe it is a constitutional right to protest for your values. But I request that you do not use symbols that diminish the 6 million Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust and the survivors who would like their children not to know the nightmare they endured.

Forrest Dunbar

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The radical left has taken symbols of national unity and turned them into divisive flash points, the left continues to attack the very symbols that unite us as a country. The good news, however, is that the American people are much wiser than the small number of far-leftists that seek to divide us.

Kayleigh McEnany

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There is little cultural overlap between violent extremists abroad and violent extremists at home, but in their disdain for pluralism, in their disregard for human life, in their determination to defile national symbols, they are children of the same foul spirit.

Laura Bush

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We have seen growing evidence that the dangers to our country can do not only across borders, but from violence that gathers within. There is little cultural overlap between violent extremists abroad and violent extremists at home. But there is disdainful pluralism in their disregard for human life, in their determination to defile national symbols. They are children of the same foul spirit and it is our continuing duty to confront them.

President Bush

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The UTSA president announced that he was ending the recent practice of displaying a large Come and Take It flag at football games. While he explained this was because of recent use of the flag by some groups for their particular causes and not connected to the flag’s historical context, such symbols have deep meaning for many Texans who value our state’s history.

Regents Chairman Kevin P. Eltife

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is a historic moment for the city of Richmond. The city, the community at large is saying that we’re not going to stand for these symbols of hate in our city anymore. And it was important for me to be here to see this historic moment.

Rachel Smucker

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is ground zero and this expression has to be defended, it's not just the overall symbols of oppression and the general oppression ideals that we need to combat. We also need to combat things on the local level as well.

Ralph Northam

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The flags we fly must accord with the military imperatives of good order and discipline, treating all our people with dignity and respect, and rejecting divisive symbols.

Mark Esper

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Following the conclusion of Whitney High School’s Inclusion Week that took place last week, the Associated Student Body (ASB) student leaders participated in a group photo to show school unity. Some students wore stickers that they received from a handful of school-sanctioned clubs, these stickers included symbols of the clubs and were removed from the group photo with the goal of honoring the group of ASB students without any other club affiliation in the spirit of equity, inclusivity and school unity.

Sundeep Dosanjh

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Children across America have endured an extremely challenging year, and D.C. children in particular have not only endured the coronavirus pandemic but now the militarization of their city, with the hostile symbols of fences and barbed wire. Sledding is a simple, childhood thrill. It is the least we can allow for our resilient children this winter season.

Holmes Norton

Found on CNN
3 years ago

To prudently manage the risk and the deposit requirements, we had to restrict buying in these 13 stocks, we're in a historic situation where there's a lot of activity and a lot of buying concentrated in a relatively small number of symbols that are going viral on social media. We haven't really seen anything like this before.

Vlad Tenev

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Until a suitable alternative is developed, we should instead devote greater attention toward civics and ensuring students understand our democratic processes and how they can be involved, i'm also alarmed that people continue to display symbols of hate, such as the recent display of the Confederate flag in Evanston.

State Rep. LaShawn K. Ford

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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