1.   As a practical matter, the agreements are less important as fiscal documents than as political symbols.

2.   As commerce secretary, Ron Brown was a master at using powerful political symbols.

3.   A government that orders its citizens how to behave around a graphic political symbol is not one based on symbolic freedoms.

4.   But he suggested that it might be protected as a political symbol.

5.   But the endowment is a potent political symbol.

6.   But political symbols matter, too, particularly when they come from the bully pulpit of the White House.

7.   For better or worse, the small, brown-haired girl has faded as a political symbol for gun control.

8.   For Israelis and Palestinians, Jerusalem is a religious focal point and a cultural touchstone, as well as a political symbol.

9.   For that, he said, it was important to show Lumumba more as a human being than as a political symbol.

10.   For Ms. Sanchez, however, this sudden jump from businesswoman to political symbol is a mixed blessing.