symbolic

That's the whole point, to make a symbolic statement.

Are language writer hires such as this purely symbolic?

Your lawyers and accountants can reassure you that these sort of symbolic commitments hold up in court.

Bus fare is a symbolic way of teaching them that they have to work for what they get, and they can't freeload off of other people.

That would be a symbolic action that would still send a message, albeit a weak one, but it would go a long way for many.

To do a high level system like a symbolic algebra system, you had to work at a much higher level.

If you are given a 8x8 pixel grid to indicate "happy" there's only so many ways to do it, a symbolic heart, a little smiley face, etc.

"So, Terry is saying, "If we treat these sums as purely symbolic entities then when we substitute in s = -1 we get a the purely symbolic statement 1 + 2 + 3 + ... = -1/12.

They only provide a symbolic segregation of the employee's space, with all of the noise and distraction of a completely open plan.

One of the I interesting things I learned was that people used to write out equations as sentences before symbolic notation was invented.

They asked researchers in the symbolic computation community about this, and were told that it was a terrible idea.

What Nolan presents is symbolic: we see Cobb's judgment and forgiveness of sins at immigration, and then his reunion with his family in the heavenly garden.

A highly symbolic moment for me was when The Economist newspaper ran a cover showing the leaders in tech: Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon.

And well neglect feasibility, taking chances to achieve core grand symbolic values, rather than ordinary muddled values.

Moxie, pondering the important parts of the system he operates in, chooses to forgo what he considers symbolic representations of success with undeserved merit.

To a mathematician "formally" means "in a purely symbolic manner without considering whether there's a sensible or consistent way of interpreting these symbols.

For all of Victor's examples of the willingly blind programmers of the 1960s who saw things like symbolic coding, object oriented design and so forth as "not programming" and more like clerical work he makes fundamentally the same error.

Obviously it would be more productive to take a diplomatic and conciliatory approach that would make at least verbal and symbolic concessions to white people who think that affirmative action discriminates against them.

He found that, though open offices often fostered a symbolic sense of organizational mission, making employees feel like part of a more laid-back, innovative enterprise, they were damaging to the workers’ attention spans, productivity, creative thinking, and satisfaction.

Rather, the video goes through a bunch of non-rigorous symbolic manipulations which ends with the author writing down the sequence of symbols "1 + 2 + 3 + ... = -1/12".However, unless one says precisely what one means by "+", "...", and "=" — which Terry does — then we have no way of really saying whether the steps taken to reach the so-called "conclusion" are valid or not.

Sound familiar?More bluntly, we seem primed to confidently see history as an inevitable march toward a theory-predicted global conflict with an alien united them determined to oppose our core symbolic values, making infeasible overly-risky overconfident plans to oppose them.