* 1969 – Vietnam War: In Washington, D. C., 250, 000-500, 000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic " March Against Death ".

** Vietnam War: In Washington, DC, 250, 000 – 500, 000 protesters stage a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic " March Against Death ".

Every year since 1880, the organizations of the French left have held a demonstration in this symbolic place during the last week of May.

This was a symbolic demonstration of the people's call for independence from the Soviet Union.

The opportunity for members of the public to witness this symbolic demonstration of the constitutional relationship of Queen-in-Parliament increased markedly in 1958 when the entire State Opening of Parliament was filmed for the first time.

ACLU attorneys representing the students argued that the armbands constituted a form of symbolic speech and, because their demonstration was suppressed, their First Amendment rights were unconstitutionally restrained.

It has been variously proposed that it began as a religious sacrifice, as a rite of passage marking a boy's entrance into adulthood, as a form of sympathetic magic to ensure virility or fertility, as a means of enhancing sexual pleasure, as an aid to hygiene where regular bathing was impractical, as a means of marking those of higher social status, as a means of humiliating enemies and slaves by symbolic castration, as a means of differentiating a circumcising group from their non-circumcising neighbors, as a means of discouraging masturbation or other socially proscribed sexual behaviors, as a means of removing " excess " pleasure, as a means of increasing a man's attractiveness to women, as a demonstration of one's ability to endure pain, or as a male counterpart to menstruation or the breaking of the hymen, or to copy the rare natural occurrence of a missing foreskin of an important leader, and as a display of disgust of the smegma produced by the foreskin.

Author Harold Bloom comments on the variety of explanations ; " Young Goodman Brown has been presented as an allegorical revelation of human depravity, as a symbolic study of sexual initiation, as an inquiry into generational conflict, as a demonstration of Puritan hypocrisy, as evidence of Hawthorn's sympathy towards Puritan society, and even just as an artfully designed short story making no essential reference beyond itself ".

The success of the September demonstration encouraged the Committee to move from symbolic sit-down demonstrations in London to mass direct action at the places where nuclear weapons would be deployed, and they planned a series of demonstrations in December to walk on to air force bases at Wethersfield, Ruislip, Bristol, Brize Norton, York, Cardiff and Manchester, to sit on the runways and to prevent planes from taking off.

Other difficult carvings, such as chains, were as much a demonstration of the carver's skill as a symbolic meaning.

This symbolic demonstration, essentially a declaration of war, was among the first of a series of events that led to the Glorious Revolution and the end of the reign of the House of Stuart.

: Organisers liased with Victoria police prior to and during the demonstration and publicly declared intentions to undertake " peaceful civil disobedience " by entering the grounds of the power station to place symbolic decommission notices on the plant building.

Ismailis have marked the Jubilees of their Imāms with public celebrations, which are symbolic affirmations of the ties that link the Ismāʿīlī Imām and his followers.

The idea, sometimes regulated by law, is to use these portraits to make the public aware of the symbolic connection to the government, a practice that dates back to medieval times.

These groups also form their own symbolic identity or public representation which are recognisable by the community at large ( include colours, symbols, patches, flags and tattoos ).

Most wedding ceremonies involve an exchange of wedding vows by the couple, presentation of a gift ( offering, ring ( s ), symbolic item, flowers, money ), and a public proclamation of marriage by an authority figure or leader.

Where such partnerships are not legally recognized, the wedding may be a religious or symbolic ceremony designed to provide an opportunity to make the same public declarations and celebration with friends and family that any other type of wedding may afford.

" Bedau also notes, though, that the very harmlessness of such entirely symbolic illegal protests toward public policy goals may serve a propaganda purpose.

Chirac's cabinet sold many public companies, renewing with the liberalisation initiated under Laurent Fabius's Socialist government ( 1984 – 86 – in particular with Fabius ' privatisation of the audiovisual sector, leading to the creation of Canal +), and abolished the solidarity tax on wealth ( ISF ), a symbolic tax on very high resources championed by Mitterrand's government.

In the NT washing also occurs in reference to rites of Judaism part of the action of a healing by Jesus, the preparation of a body for burial, the washing of nets by fishermen, a person's personal washing of the face to appear in public, the cleansing of an injured person's wounds, Pilate's washing of his hands as a symbolic claim of innocence and foot washing, now partly a symbolic rite within the Church.

" 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.

The move was seen by the Chinese public as symbolic of Hu's attitude towards corruption.

Healy proved an able Governor-General, possessing a degree of political skill, deep political insight and contacts in Britain that the new Irish Government initially lacked, and had long recommended himself to the Catholic Hierarchy, all-round good credentials for this key symbolic and reconciling position at the centre of public life.

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.

The office is largely symbolic and its responsibilities consist of chairing meetings of the City Council and representing the city at public events.

Every year he exhibited work of one class or another: occasionally a public monument in the round, like those of Pasquale Paoli ( 1798 ) or Captain Montague ( 1802 ) for Westminster Abbey, of Sir William Jones for University College, Oxford ( 1797 – 1801 ), of Nelson or Howe for St Paul's Cathedral ; more often memorials for churches, with symbolic Acts of Mercy or illustrations of Scripture texts, both commonly in low relief ( 1801 ), Miss Cromwell, Chichester ( 1800 ), Mrs Knight, Milton, Cambridge ( 1802 ), and many more ; and these pious labours he would vary from time to time with a classical piece like those of his earliest predilection.

Recognising its symbolic importance, he maintained the public illusion of living in Number 10, working there, holding meetings, and entertaining guests in the State Dining Room.

For example, the symbolic protest of the Occupy movement of 2011-2012, which originated in the 2011 Israeli social justice protests, consisted of camping out in tents in public space ( in Hebrew, Mechaat HaOhalim ), until they were removed, often violently, by the police.

Initial integration in the South tended to be symbolic: for example, the integration of Clinton High School, the first public school in Tennessee to be integrated, amounted to admission of twelve black students to a formerly all-white school.

In Latin America, public and official opinions provoked much political criticism of the US deposition of an elected Latin American government, and Guatemala became symbolic of armed resistance to the US hegemony of Latin America.

At the University of Chicago, Geertz became a champion of symbolic anthropology, a framework which gives prime attention to the role of symbols in constructing public meaning.

Limited research and information services concerning official symbolic items are also provided to the general public.

These recommendations apply to both types of Homes Not Jails occupation: covert squats, and public takeovers of symbolic buildings and are not policed in any way with individual squats running themselves autonomously.

Murphy normally rejected public honours ( such as a knighthood ), but accepted this because of the symbolic resemblance to his own impact on human rights in Australian law and its lasting significance as a ' signpost ' to space travellers.

The Pope forces King Henry ’ s public repentance and symbolic subjugation of the crown to the church.

Another opinion, favoured by a number of authors, is that, because of the allegorical character of the Apocalypse, the reference to the Nicolaitans is merely a symbolic manner of reference.

The paper-and-pin Easter Lily of the IRA was the traditional commemorative badge of the Easter Rising, whereas the self-adhesive Easter Lily of the Officials was a novel invention, symbolic of the divergence of opinion between them.

Justice Hugo Black, renowned civil libertarian and First Amendment absolutist, filed a short concurrence indicating his agreement with Justice William O. Douglas's longer opinion and pointing out that the per curiams reliance on Dennis was more symbolic than actual.

* demonstrator – An individual who is publicly displaying the common opinion of an activist group, often economically, political, or socially, by gathering in a crowd, usually at a symbolic place or date, associated with that opinion.

Mihemed Şêxo was a master of symbolic nationalistic lyrics who was imprisoned several times for expressing his political opinion through his songs.

In the opinion of the court, Chief Justice Warren wrote that while the First Amendment does protect freedom of speech, it does not protect all things that may extraneously be labeled ' symbolic speech '.