1.   But the overall deficit is a convenient symbol that grabs attention.

2.   In these images, politicians are used as convenient symbols of the fatuousness and failures of American public life.

3.   New York, however, is only a convenient symbol for what really bothers a lot of Americans about their country.

4.   Such self-conscious contrast helps to make the Bush boys convenient symbols of big changes in the center of gravity of the Republican Party.

5.   The protesters in Karachi attacked convenient symbols of the West like a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant.

6.   Until then, cuddly creatures and large animals with big teeth are convenient symbols for feelings of happiness and fear, respectively.