61.   The suspect has used universities as return addresses before, perhaps because they make the packages seem less suspicious or perhaps as some kind of symbolic gesture.

62.   The symbolic gesture of defiance was played against the pomp and ceremony of the bicentennial celebrations.

63.   Then the IRA should agree to give up some weapons, a largely symbolic gesture that would nevertheless reinvigorate the peace process.

64.   These symbolic gestures could antagonize Beijing enough to provoke the regime there into some rash action.

65.   They said the pardon was a symbolic gesture to help rehabilitate those who had apologized for their role in the East German state.

66.   Though they often posed for pictures together and made symbolic gestures of reconciliation, Mandela and de Klerk did not have a warm personal relationship.

67.   This symbolic gesture is considered crucial by China, which threatens to attack if Taiwan ever declares legal independence.

68.   To name ANWR a national monument would be merely a symbolic gesture.

69.   U.S. officials characterized the aid offers as a symbolic gesture for a country that has no shortage of financial or scientific resources.

70.   Vajpayee was still exhibiting his knack for the symbolic gesture.