However, it is probable that this was again a symbolic act, in which Hosea divorced Gomer for infidelity, and used the occasion to preach the message of God's rejection of the Northern Kingdom.

This was done at a formal and symbolic ceremony called a commendation ceremony, which was composed of the two-part act of homage and oath of fealty.

), sometimes performing a symbolic act such as cutting a ribbon or pushing a button at an opening, christening something with champagne, laying the first stone, and so on.

Research by Leslie Margolin indicates that mother-son incest does not trigger some innate biological response, but that the effects are more directly related to the symbolic meanings attributed to this act by the participants.

In criminal law, a sentence forms the final explicit act of a judge-ruled process, and also the symbolic principal act connected to his function.

Most traditional Wiccans worship the god and goddess, and a central part of Wiccan liturgy involves the Great Rite ; an act of actual or symbolic ritual sexual intercourse between the two deities.

In a symbolic act of visitation, the Russian flag was placed on the seabed at the exact position of the Pole.

* Salting the earth, the practice of ' sowing ' salt on cities or property as a symbolic act

Also birds, insects and animals are released by the thousands in what is known as a ' symbolic act to liberation '; of giving freedom to those who are in captivity, imprisoned, or tortured against their will.

Similarly, the Vedic Purushamedha ( literally " human sacrifice ") is already a purely symbolic act in its earliest attestation.

According to Pliny the Elder, human sacrifice in Ancient Rome was abolished by a senatorial decree in 97 BCE, although by this time the practice had already become so rare that the decree was mostly a symbolic act.

Although not accepted by larger section of Hindu culture, certain tantric cults performed human sacrifice until around the same time, both actual and symbolic ; it was a highly ritualised act, and on occasion took many months to complete.

" Displaying a gang sign, such as the noose, as a symbolic act can be construed as "… a threat to commit violence communicated with the intent to terrorize another, to cause evacuation of a building, or to cause serious public inconvenience, in reckless disregard of the risk of causing such terror or inconvenience … an offense against property or involving danger to another person that may include but is not limited to recklessly endangering another person, harassment, stalking, ethnic intimidation, and criminal mischief.

Her courageous act was symbolic of Earhart's selflessness ; typically, she rarely referred to the incident in later years.

The marker was placed more than 35 years after her death by Captain Thomas R. Ranson, one of the soldiers of the Stonewall Brigade, an act considered symbolic of the affection of his troops for their fallen leader.

Ua Buachalla and de Valera subsequently patched up their differences, and in a symbolic act of apology, de Valera, when elected President of Ireland in 1959 appointed Ua Buachalla to his advisory Council of State.

O does everything physically possible to avoid being seen by others but the only thing he can do to avoid perception by an “ all seeing god ” is to tear up his picture, a symbolic act, as if saying, “ If I don ’ t believe you exist you can ’ t see me .” There is no one there to see him for what he really is other than himself and so, in this godless world, it is only fitting that E, representing O's self-perception, would appear standing where the picture has been torn from the wall.

# The act should be a type of symbolic interactionism.

Also, realizing that his fear of commitment ( a result of his fear of death of those around him ) and his tendency to act on emotion are responsible for his continuing desires to pursue new women, Rob makes a symbolic commitment to Laura.

The ceremony of betrothal is now possibly performed immediately before the wedding ( or " crowning " as it is more properly called ), and the actual symbolic act of marriage is not the exchange of rings, but the public exchange of wedding vows.

In similar fashion, Margot Anand has pointed out that ' rituals pervade our daily life and give it a sense of ceremony and celebration (...) a ritual, through your own unique symbolic gestures ... will help you transform your lovemaking into a special and sacred act '.

For scholars acquainted with rabbinical, and kabbalistic literature, the act was highly symbolic.

Even the overturning of her past scandalous life was seen by Sabbatai's followers as additional confirmation of his messiahship, following the biblical story of the prophet Hosea, who had also been commanded to take a " wife of whoredom " as the first symbolic act of his calling.

Edward's plan was a colonial enterprise and placing the new town and walls on top of such a high-status native Welsh site was in part a symbolic act to demonstrate English power.

The bestiary, then, is also a reference to the symbolic language of animals in Western Christian art and literature.

As an example of a conditional proof in symbolic logic, suppose we want to prove A → C ( if A, then C ) from the first two premises below:

Maurice Elvey's Nelson – England's Immortal Naval Hero ( 1919 ) has a symbolic sequence dissolving from a picture of Kaiser Wilhelm II to a peacock, and then to a battleship.

The first is a ritual designed for the individual, which involves sacrificing a " Cake of Light " ( a type of bread that serves as the host ) to Ra ( i. e. the Sun ) and infusing a second Cake with the adept's own blood ( either real or symbolic, in a gesture reflecting the myth of the Pelican cutting its own breast to feed its young ) and then consuming it with the words, " There is no grace: there is no guilt: This is the Law: Do what thou wilt!

We then express ourselves religiously in groups, which for Durkheim makes the symbolic power greater.

In Revelation the tree again appears in the middle of the garden ( taking the entire Bible as a spiritual symbolic journey of self discovery and improvement ( spiritual growth )-also called regeneration ), which provides then that the leaves are for the healing ( which is that the truths which can be understood ) are able to be applied to one's spiritual life for the betterment of our character, " healing " our innate selfish tendencies.

As reason is symbolic thinking, and peculiarly human, then this implies that humans have a special ability to maintain a clear consciousness of the distinctness of " icons " or images and the real things they represent.

The back-end — often referred to as the synthesizer — then converts the symbolic linguistic representation into sound.

When the eyes are closed, fantastically vivid images appear: first geometrical forms and then landscapes, buildings, animate beings, and symbolic objects.

He then screams in agony and tears out his own throat, thereby denying the soldiers their chance to kill him, even though they shoot him anyway in what can be little more than a symbolic gesture.

The idea of a symbolic Tomb of the Unknown Soldier then spread to other countries.

Warde Fowler speculates that it was originally Rome's storehouse ( penus ) for the best of the harvest, to provide seed-grain for the next planting, then became the symbolic penus of the expanded Roman state.

For Clark then, the true purpose of Chiswick Villa was as a symbolic Royal Palace which awaited the return of the ' Kings over the water ' who were destined to rule by ‘ Divine Right ’, an interpretation supported by architectural historian Giles Worsley and others.

where are constant coefficients and p ( n ) is the inhomogeneity, then if is a polynomial with degree r, then this inhomogeneous recurrence can be reduced to a homogeneous recurrence by applying the method of symbolic differencing r times.

It then became a suitably symbolic reason to oppose the Treaty.

As stated by Gilbert Lewis, “ if magicians performed spells for explicitly symbolic or metaphorical purposes, then we wouldn ’ t consider them magic at all …”

Isaiah 8: 1-15 continues the previous chapter: the prophet tells of the birth of another child, his own son named Maher-shalal-hash-baz ( yet another symbolic name ), then predicts that after Ephraim and Syria are destroyed the Assyrians will come like a river in flood to " cover the breadth of your land, Immanuel " ( Isaiah 8: 8 ).

As for Immanuel, " God is with us ", Isaiah might mean simply that any young pregnant woman in 734 BCE would be able to name her child " God is with us " by the time he is born ; but if a specific child is meant, then it might be a son of Ahaz, possibly his successor Hezekiah ( which is the traditional Jewish understanding ); or, since the other symbolic children are Isaiah's, Immanuel might be the prophet's own son.

From then on he began to found and build the South Tyrolean Liberation Committee ( BAS ), which was at first limited to distributing leaflets and symbolic actions, such as the display of the then forbidden flag of South Tyrol.

The journey from Bratislava to Levoča took the students past the High Tatras, Slovakia's and the then Kingdom of Hungary's highest, imposing, and symbolic mountain range.

* Evaluation of infinite series, infinite products and integrals ( also see symbolic integration ), typically by carrying out a high precision numerical calculation, and then using an integer relation algorithm ( such as the Inverse Symbolic Calculator ) to find a linear combination of mathematical constants that matches this value.

He then ended the algebra of procedures ( al-Jabr and Muqabala ), creating the first symbolic algebra.

Mead's theories in part, based on pragmatism and behaviorism, were transmitted to many graduate students at the University of Chicago who then went on to establish symbolic interactionism.