1.   This was an important political gesture and it is glossed over here.

2.   Important gestures cannot be able too often and this restricts communication.

3.   Call the following day to make the offer again, an important gesture even if it is not accepted.

4.   During the opening ceremony, Freeman lit the Olympic caldron in a moment that was widely viewed as an important gesture toward national reconciliation.

5.   He traveled to Baghdad to meet Saddam, an important gesture the Iraqis had long sought.

6.   In addition, the six countries are expected to make other smaller but symbolically important gestures soon, senior Clinton administration officials said.

7.   Legal scholars said a ruling against the death penalty would be an important symbolic gesture.

8.   President Vladimir Putin told Russians that uniting the symbols of czarist and Communist times is an important gesture of reconciliation as the nation heads into a new millennium.

9.   Putin told Russians this week that uniting the symbols of czarist and Communist times is an important gesture of reconciliation as the nation heads into the new millennium.

10.   Rove said that it was an important gesture for suburban voters as well.