Symbol
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Yet the dollar, a
symbol
of American financial power, has surged rather than declined.
Yet, the towers could have been a
symbol
of worldwide poetry, not commerce.
The euro is the
symbol
of the European project.
Similarly, Pelé became the
symbol
of a harmonious, inter-racial Brazil.
For China and South Korea, the Yasukuni Shrine’s inclusion of 14 Class A war criminals who were executed after World War II has made it a potent
symbol
of Japan’s prewar militarism, and Abe had long refrained from visiting it – including during his previous stint as prime minister.
Indeed, his speeches frequently offer lessons in Jewish history, while casting the “Holy Land” as both a Jewish right and an Israeli national
symbol.
Ehud Olmert, the party’s leader and now elected prime minister, has been a maverick of the center since his student days – a fitting
symbol
for the rapprochement of left and right.
As heir to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the legendary democratic leader who was hanged by General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq’s government in 1979, Benazir emerged as a
symbol
of resistance at a young age – but languished in jails and exile in the 1980’s.
UNCLOS is a
symbol
of global cooperation, compromise, and international law that was more than 20 years in the making.
Its golden age was some 500 years ago, and at the beginning of this century many still viewed it as a
symbol
of backwardness.
The EU’s lack of solidarity, imagination, courage, unity, and vision in recent years has made Europe a
symbol
of division for some, if not many.
He rehabilitated the institution after succeeding an unworthy predecessor and became popular at home and admired abroad as an informal global Elder on the international stage, a sought-after speaker in international fora, and a
symbol
of a peace-seeking Israel, in sharp contrast to its pugnacious prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu.
The Koran burnings are a potent
symbol
of that systemic threat.
A national dialogue about fostering pluralism is now in progress, and has inspired renewed public interest in Pancasila, the national philosophy discredited during the Suharto years but now seen by some as a
symbol
of Indonesia’s historic pluralism.
Of course, the head of state – whether the president or the monarch – has other critical duties as well, including acting as guarantor of the constitution and a
symbol
of national unity.
Al-Qaeda lost its central organizational capacity, but it became a
symbol
and focal point around which like-minded imitators could rally.
Such a security roof would be a strong political
symbol
that Russia is fully part of the Euro-Atlantic family, sharing the costs and benefits.
At a time when many are seeking salvation in nationalism, an EU-US free-trade zone would be a powerful
symbol
of cooperation in overcoming global challenges.
Kim Jong-un has done some things that were previously unseen in North Korea – frankly admitting the failure of a missile test, for example, and cavorting with Disney’s Mickey Mouse, a
symbol
of enemy American culture, while building amusement parks of his own.
With AI/machine learning quickly evolving into a “black box” technology, the
symbol
of Pandora’s sealed jar has taken on new meaning.
In 2012, Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far-right National Front, lumped together (in order to condemn them both) the religious
symbol
that is the yarmulke and the political emblem that is the veil.
Beyond the data, there is no greater
symbol
of the world’s growing interdependence than the movement of people.
Likewise, there could be no clearer
symbol
of resistance to change than his proposed wall on the US-Mexico border.
What makes the Himalayan incursion a powerful
symbol
of China’s aggressive new stance in Asia is that its intruding troops have set up camp in an area that extends beyond the “line of actual control” (LAC) that China itself unilaterally drew when it defeated India in the 1962 Chinese-initiated border war.
The UN, as the quintessential
symbol
of international legitimacy and the rule of law, and the US, as the embodiment of pragmatic power and force, had a kind of alliance.
Grillo holds no official position in M5S, which bills itself as a “non-association,” and yet he owns the blog that has been key to the movement’s success, as well as the copyright to its official
symbol.
He has revoked M5S members’ right to use that
symbol
for supposedly breaking the “rules” – or what is officially called the “non-statute” – of his “anti-party.”
Karnataka (whose capital, Bangalore, is a
symbol
of India’s thriving software and business-process-outsourcing industries) had been ruled for the previous five years by the Bharatiya Janata Party, the country’s main opposition party, which governed India from 1998 to 2004.
France and the UK were not willing to give up the
symbol
of their nuclear and international status.
Some conservatives disliked the crude egalitarianism of American culture, while some on the left saw America’s faith in markets as a
symbol
of capitalist exploitation of the working class.
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