1.   These decisions angered many sections of the white community, including de Klerk who said that national symbols had nothing to do with apartheid.

2.   The issue became a national symbol of the struggle between development and environment.

3.   America acquired an eerie new national symbol last week.

4.   American national symbols are particularly potent.

5.   And fervent nationalists see the proposed merger as the loss of a revered national symbol and the last spike in the dream of an independent, sovereign Canada.

6.   And Shepard became a national symbol.

7.   And the publicity made Caterpillar a national symbol of the striker replacement issue.

8.   And when he jumped, Goldwater jumped to the Hopi side with all the jut-jawed righteousness that made him a national symbol of straight-talking conservatism.

9.   As a national symbol, it is considered a potential target of terrorists and in need of especially tight security, officials said.

10.   As a national symbol, the pasty is to Cornwall what the shamrock is to Ireland, or the thistle is to Scotland.