11.   It would be better for the legislators to exercise their own judgment and not pollute the system with laws that are empty gestures in a highly emotional climate.

12.   No amount of feigned ignorance or empty gestures by Samaranch and his IOC cronies can whitewash the mess that has finally made daylight.

13.   Republican leaders Trent Lott and Newt Gingrich had more sense, dismissing the empty gesture as providing an excuse not to do something substantive.

14.   The problem with censuring the president, according to congressional expert Thomas Mann and Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga., is that it is an empty gesture.

15.   Then again, putting out any schedule might have been an empty gesture.

16.   And some, including Uwingabire, see the gacacas as an empty gesture.

17.   But Human Rights Watch, an advocacy group, described the decision as an empty gesture that will further estrange Washington from its allies.

18.   Campbell said he did not believe his boycott threat, which was withdrawn when organizers agreed to admit youths free of charge, was an empty gesture.

19.   Even lawmakers who support such a ban branded the vote an empty gesture and called for a decisive government action to enact legislation.

20.   In explaining her decision to run, Szabo said a boycott would be an empty gesture.