11.   They have a symbolic role, but after a while it begins to look like grandstanding.

12.   They have taken on the symbolic role of community healing centers in the crisis, Fredrick said.

13.   They were worshipped wherever they went, it seemed, often playing symbolic roles relating to sensuality and fertility.

14.   Writing in The Guardian, Vernon Bogdanor, a professor of government at Oxford University, said the monarchy is worth keeping because of its important symbolic role.

15.   Besides playing the symbolic role, she also is responsible for administrative duties like overseeing the Senate messenger service.

16.   But, psychiatrists say, that leaves out a symbolic role, which has little to do with the person at hand.

17.   It also gives a purely symbolic role to the emperor, worshipped before the war as a divine figure.

18.   Keating wants the president to have a symbolic role like the queen and her current Australian representative, the governor-general.

19.   Like the British monarchy, the Dutch royals play an essentially symbolic role.

20.   Still, Dobbins said the northern alliance had indicated it would accept a symbolic role for the former king.