11.   Analysts said this was a symbolic gesture because the size was insignificant to influence money supply, and short-term retail interest rates remained under state control.

12.   And the Supreme Court held long ago that symbolic gestures are the equivalent of speech and are therefore protected from government repression.

13.   As a symbolic gesture, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani plans to turn off the ornamental fountain at City Hall.

14.   A symbolic gesture of the area fandom jumping off the bandwagon?

15.   But economic improvements always weaken repressive regimes, and that alone may be reason enough to lift this symbolic gesture.

16.   Djindjic said the removal of the star was a symbolic gesture intended to show that ideology no longer reigned at city hall.

17.   Dolphins, however, though they have no arms or hands, seem able to figure out the symbolic gesture easily.

18.   Gore dropped in Wednesday night from Michigan just to watch the debate between the vice presidential candidates in a symbolic gesture to show that Florida was important.

19.   He glanced in the mirror, frowned and patted his hair, in a mostly symbolic gesture, and jumped out of the car before it stopped.