For many, Highland games are the very essence of Scottishness, a distinctive cultural symbol recognised the world over.
As alcohol ceased to be a cultural symbol, the appropriate regulation of alcohol ceased to be an ideological issue.
The Director-General called on all parties to protect Egyptian cultural heritage, symbol of the country's identity, and to respect freedom of expression, pillar of democracy.
It is a proud symbol of the cultural heritage of the craftspeople, their city and the nation.
The centre, with its gleaming glass shells, is the most visible symbol of the cultural renaissance that will usher in a new era of creativity, revitalize the downtown and return Kansas City to the dynamic, creative and worldly place it once was.
For he is a peculiarly potent new symbol of an ancient cultural battle.
It also has become a symbol of our present cultural divide, its shoppers derided on websites, its big-box stores accused of having killed small-town Main Streets, its efficiency and pricing studied by academics.
"Victor Jara was a symbol, he was a cultural, political and social icon, " Nelson Caucoto, a human rights attorney representing the singer's family, told CNN Chile.
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It is rapidly becoming a cultural "meme" - a self-reproducing symbol.
The state Education Minister, Annette Schaven, argued that the headscarf was political and "understood as a symbol of the exclusion of woman from civil and cultural society".
The completed museum, which replaces old warehouses on what was once a working waterfront, has become Bilbao's dramatic symbol of renewal and bid for an updated economic and cultural base.
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