Apples are eaten with honey at the Jewish New Year of Rosh Hashanah to symbolize a sweet new year.

Scholars propose that, in the Métis multilingual community, Michif emerged as a need to symbolize a new social identity.

He certifies these in his work as mises en abîme entities that symbolize a more complex piece of our history.

Modern media played a role, too, broadcasting images of the death camps that immediately came to symbolize the depth of Nazi depravity.

It is against this background that the Iranian nuclear program has come to symbolize the larger geopolitical tensions underlying the confrontation between the US and Iran.

Mobs wearing red shirts to symbolize their loyalty to former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra are now camped out in two major commercial areas, paralyzing a large part of the local economy.

Among activists, Azhar's case has come to symbolize the dangers of an expanded cyber law, which they say could discourage potential whistleblowers from coming forward publicly, for fear of defamation charges.

The case against 24 year old Parwez Kambakhsh, whose brother has angered Afghan warlords with his own writing, has come to symbolize Afghanistan's slide toward an ultraconservative view on religious and individual freedoms.

In reality, for them the conflict has come to symbolize the anachronistic perpetuation of an unfair colonial order, to represent their political malaise, and to embody the perceived impossibility of their being masters of their destiny.

Ours is a proposal for RESISTANCE it is not pessimistic, it discusses the death of these powers, but hope is still present in the three white stripes that symbolize the individual's rights and their capacity to reclaim and create their rights.

Just after Al Ahram published the doctored photographs or what Saraya calls Symbolic Photographs Saraya came to tell us that the photo showing president Mubarak in front of the other leaders is meant to symbolize Egypt and Mubarak's lead role in solving the Palestinian crisis.

A democratic era promises to give the Arab world a chance to be the author of its own actions. It will also enable Arabs to develop a new paradigm for relations with the West, based on equality and partnership a position that Turkey has come to symbolize.

The number of the light rays in the Sun of the Presidential Seal were reduced to 16 (8 long and 8 short light rays, all of them sharp edged) in order to symbolize the 16 Turkic states in history, with another legal amendment on February 18, 1978.