This is a highly political and symbolic ritual.

A major work in terms of style, structure, graphic invention, image manipulation and symbolic ritual.

Drums rolled, the sacred door was'closed, and the symbolic ritual of homage to Astarte was continued.

However, with the Brahmins taking to other vocations than priesthood, this initiation has become more of a symbolic ritual.

Although still a prestigious event, the annual Army-Navy game has become more of a symbolic ritual than a high point on the college football calendar.

Use of symbolic ritual as a statement of historic fact.

It is really a very symbolic ritual.

This is a symbolic ritual in Chhath Puja, performed especially in those families where marriage or childbirth has taken place recently.

It is a symbolic ritual which has been performed for years.

Today's athletes mimic those feats in symbolic rituals, known as games, while fans make financial and emotional wagers on the outcome.