11.   Q. Why not refuse to be part of those soft-money fund-raisers, just as a symbolic move, if nothing else?

12.   Republicans say they have been told that a vote for impeachment is more of a symbolic move because the Senate will not remove the president.

13.   Russia and Belarus agreed on Friday to form a new union, a largely symbolic move intended to appeal to nostalgia for the old Soviet empire.

14.   Should McMullen make a bid for victory, it would be a symbolic move in the restoration of American mile fortunes.

15.   That is largely a symbolic move, because the mayor placed Celester on administrative leave after federal agents raided his house in November.

16.   The Korean government, in a largely symbolic move, has applied for OECD membership.

17.   The new bill, in a largely symbolic move, also allows the president to withhold foreign aid to countries that support terrorism.

18.   The owners also made small but, in their view, symbolic moves on the tax rate and the payroll threshold.

19.   While most dismissals occur under cover of euphemism, sometimes a firing is an overtly symbolic move.

20.   Aside from such symbolic moves, the generals also were outraged by heightened calls for an Islamic regime at rallies and in speeches by Welfare deputies.