Could this image be any more iconic of the discomfort the West has with the social mores of Islam, and vice versa?

The Taj Mahal Hotel is an iconic structure in Mumbai.

Without doubt, it is one of the iconic images of the twentieth century.

The performance is noted by MTV as an iconic moment in VMA history.

Alan Greenspan attained an almost iconic status as Governor of the Federal Reserve Board.

LONDON I spent the New Year in Sydney, watching the fireworks above the iconic bridge welcome in 2009.

Clinton s four years as America s top diplomat have given her iconic status around the world and deservedly so.

And I'm going to take that idea and apply it to other sort of iconic things from my life.

Hindustan Motors has recently suspended production of India's iconic Hindustan Ambassador car which was first rolled out in 1958.

TS Well, this painting here, I wanted to do something very simple, a simple, iconic image of two ripples interfering.

You'll notice that it looks pretty much like the iconic yellow ball that Sun that we all draw when we're children.

Rapprochement with the iconic Suu Kyi, like that of South Africa s apartheid era rulers with Nelson Mandela, was the core decision.

Part of the celebration also saw 19 of Singapore s iconic buildings and historic structures being lit up in purple for 8 days.

Photographs do more than document history they make it. At TED University, Jonathan Klein of Getty Images shows some of the most iconic, and talks about what happens when a generation sees an image so powerful it can't look away or back.

I grew up at a time when iconic actors from Kuwait, Syria, Egypt used laughter to unite the region, just as football can.

In the absence of reliable statistics, let us focus on two iconic figures of China s pro democracy movement Hu Jia and Chen Guancheng.

You encounter it within minutes at a party, when you get asked that famous iconic question of the early 21st century, What do you do?

So, I was convinced. We designed it to be iconic, to look different. To look like it's for a kid, but not like a toy.

Chitra basically remixes and re titles these iconic images to tease out some of the sexual and gender politics embedded in these deeply influential comics.

An iconic campaign poster captured the public mood a picture of a gun slinging Gary Cooper as the sheriff in the classic western High Noon .

In fact, it could be called Tom Fordism, after the young American designer who realized the iconic potential of the Italian fashion house of Gucci.

Through constant experimentation with materials, they developed a wide range of iconic solutions that we know today, eventually resulting in, of course, the legendary lounge chair.

Beverly Joubert We are truly passionate about the African wilderness and protecting the African wilderness, and so what we've done is we've focused on iconic cats.

For Jolie, that means often using her iconic status to advance a positive agenda, whether the issue is Syrian refugees in Jordan or breast cancer awareness.

You, the iconic ones, most deserve to live, until the day you taste victory. Our freedom honours you as we, together, take pride in our past.

Next, it was announced that the large Qingdao based Chinese appliance maker, Hai er, was interested in picking up home appliance maker Maytag, another iconic all American brand.

Karen Armstrong has told what I think is an iconic story of giving a speech in Holland and, after the fact, the word compassion was translated as pity.

In late 2006, during a sniper attack in Al Karmah, a series of iconic photographs were taken by New York Times photographer João Silva and reporter C. J. Chivers.

When people think of Africa, they often focus on the hardships of village life a perception reflected in iconic images of African women on their daily excursions to fetch water.

The iconic, Mona Lisa like visage of Chairman Mao still gazes out from the Gate of Heavenly Peace, but what was happening all around me suggested how much things had changed.

This has been especially true when Chinese state owned enterprises (SOEs) have aspired to buy, or buy into, iconic US corporations that have a blush of national security significance about them.

The campaign featured local celebrities replicating the iconic pose of Marilyn Monroe in her film The Seven Year Itch. The campaign poster can be seen on bus shelters and train stations.

But it's not just iconic women like Shirin, like Aung Sun Suu Kyi, like Wangari Maathai it is other women in the world who are also struggling together to change this world.

In the early 1900s, they began to open shops in São Paulo's March 25th street setting the stage for what would become one of the most iconic shopping thoroughfares in the city.

And this video is a video of Keith Jarrett, who's a well known jazz improviser and probably the most well known, iconic example of someone who takes improvisation to a really higher level.

And it was a dream. It was a wild dream to perform in an orchestra, to perform in the iconic Walt Disney Concert Hall in an orchestra conducted now by the famous Gustavo Dudamel, but much more importantly to me to be surrounded by musicians and mentors that became my new family, my new musical home.

Designer Yves Behar digs up his creative roots to discuss some of the iconic objects he's created . Then he turns to the witty, surprising, elegant objects he's working on now including the 100 laptop.

Instead, they see Americans as increasingly reducing US involvement in the world to a morality play Gary Cooper s iconic role as the lone sheriff among the craven townspeople in High Noon comes to mind.

We Frenchmen were so proud in 1998 of watching the gigantic, iconic image of Zinedine Zidane (the French captain, who is of Algerian descent) being projected onto the Arc de Triomphe on the Champs Elysees.

Of course being an iconic city like New York, that has had an interest in somehow playing around with the sense of space, you could say that New York wants to seem as big as possible.

The polemics that preceded and followed Cameron s recent speech on Europe showed that both British Euro skeptics and Europe s truest Europhiles including such iconic figures as former European Commission President Jacques Delors welcomed the British initiative.

The revelation of 9 11 is that even if you are the most powerful nation on earth, nevertheless, those who inhabit that space can attack you even in your most iconic of cities one bright September morning.

Watch how these diabolical radicals (in glasses and with iPhones) stupefy a group of cops by tearing from their grasp an iconic polite person in full uniform. And they drag him away! And they rip off his mask

Other cases in which barriers to transatlantic trade and investment conceal conflicting objectives and deep rooted attitudes include France s protection of its cherished audiovisual sector and America s desire to continue to block European penetration of its iconic airline industry.

Built around a sample of the iconic 1972 hit You're So Vain by Carly Simon, Son of a Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is About You) featured Simon herself, along with Missy Elliott on remixes of the single.