11.   And the confrontation over balancing the budget which brought Washington to a standstill this autumn is the symbolic final act of the Reagan Revolution.

12.   At the same time, some experts in election law say Florida law suggests that the certification of a winner is far more than a symbolic act.

13.   But there are perhaps just as many, maybe more, who are already looking beyond the speeches and symbolic acts to ask whether he can deliver.

14.   Gordon said that because it is increasingly difficult to find jurors who know nothing about highly publicized cases, sequestration has become a more symbolic act.

15.   He persisted in his bad judgment in the face of sound advice, even when informed that the elevation of Smith was an offensive symbolic act.

16.   Hours after the Jerusalem bombing, Israel retaliated with a devastating symbolic act of its own.

17.   His plan included, typically, a symbolic act of defiance.

18.   In Liege, firemen turned their hoses on the local court building in a symbolic act of cleansing.

19.   It was a move that broadened shareholder ownership of the company and was a symbolic act for German companies.

20.   Jesus cleansed the Temple in Jerusalem as a symbolic act of institutional reform and constantly railed against the self-serving religious leadership of his day.