11. Like so many Hungarians, Benko seems suspicious of every political gesture, refraining from criticism and celebration. 12. Others have suggested that sending out the spy ship is more a political gesture than a military one. 13. Passage would have been no more than a political gesture anyway. 14. Some members said the group was a shallow political gesture, because there were no provisions to use its recommendations. 15. Some Israeli and Arab commentators denounced the initiative as a blatant Republican political gesture for American Jewish votes that has needlessly provoked Arab states. 16. That year has also begun to instruct him in the value of the gracious political gesture. 17. The kiss struck everyone as a political gesture based on truth, and nothing is rarer than that. 18. The local authorities put it down to a couple of drunkards and say it was not a political gesture, yet admit it is a symptom of social tension. 19. The pattern seems to indicate that the intrusions are carefully calculated political gestures, rather than the first step in a more menacing military operation. 20. This clumsy political gesture touched off riots in the detention camps against any further repatriations and halted the return flow. |