21.   The obvious explanation is that the GOP is out to slay political symbols, not government waste.

22.   The scrap of cloth was a provocative political symbol.

23.   The sugar program has become more of a political symbol than a substantive issue, Glickman said.

24.   There, even technology seemed loaded with political symbols.

25.   Thus was a political symbol born.

26.   To Anthony Barthelemy, an English professor at the University of Miami, shoes have always been powerful political symbols.

27.   Tobacco executives have long sought to align themselves with farmers, knowing they remain a sympathetic political symbol on Capitol Hill.

28.   Under the communists, the church ruins were a political symbol of Western and Nazi brutality.

29.   A retired general apologized Friday for saying that a certain type of skullcap was just as much a political symbol as the Nazi swastika.

30.   And in post-Soviet, economically struggling Ukraine, Panikovsky is even becoming a political symbol.