Word: symbolics
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...During his time in jail, Mandela was an important symbol of opposition to apartheid. But "the closest thing the world has to a secular saint"? On most practical measures, South Africa has gone backward since Mandela's presidency. The African National Congress (ANC) has been in power since 1994 and is as unlikely to be replaced via the ballot box as President Robert Mugabe's government is in Zimbabwe. South Africa's real saint is Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu. Julius Bergh, Nerang, Queensland...
...imposing statue of Hadrian in military regalia shows him trampling a barbarian - powerful imagery in the Greek portion of the empire, which had been traumatized by rebellion. His breastplate further emphasizes the Greco-Roman union, displaying the Greek goddess Athena standing upon a she-wolf that was a symbol of Rome...
...such places as Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, are part of an epochal shift in the economic balance of power toward the energy-rich Gulf. It helps that the downturn in the U.S. economy and the anemic dollar are offering up relative bargains. Shares in GE - the great symbol of American management prowess - have fallen by more than a quarter in the last year...
...regardless of race or social background. At a moment when anti-American sentiments have reached unprecedented heights in Germany - a 2007 study by the Pew Research Center found that only 30% of Germans hold a positive view of the U.S. - Obama is seen by many Germans as a symbol of change...
...clients or anyone else until President Reagan nominated the conservative lawyer for the important U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Chicago. Soon the Senate will vote on whether to confirm him, and the result is being watched intently. For Manion, 44, has become the unhappy symbol of a new turning in the Reagan drive to fill the federal bench with more ideologically congenial judges. By measure of all but the furthest-right yardsticks, Reagan's court appointments in his first four years were certainly conservative. At the same time, they were generally celebrated for their legal acuity...