The sacrifice of the animal is to receive atonement, for the animal symbolically takes on all the person's sins in kapparos.

An administrator at their children's school, Berkeley Carroll, came up with a suggestion that would allow them to at least symbolically take Julius to the new house.

Their celebrant personally and symbolically takes the place of Attis, and like him is cleansed, renewed or "reborn".

"Real" Bodo tells "old" Bodo to get out and leaves him standing in the middle of the road thus symbolically taking over "old" Bodo's life; perhaps a visual metaphor for beginning anew.

The method by which a pope symbolically took office was made less specific.

This is because she felt she would be symbolically taking their deceased son's place, as he would have been twenty-one years old and thus eligible for conscription into the army.

He symbolically took soil from two containers representative the divided nation, and mixed them together to promote his reunification plan, under anti-communist rule.

King Shapur II of Persia exhumed the bones of the Armenian kings and took them to Persia symbolically taking Armenia's power.

The head of the Navarre IV Division dipped his fingers in the water and made the sign of the cross, symbolically taking possession.

After the service the city will take to the streets and symbolically reclaim them from the lake.