1.   But the symbolic gesture is likely to be of dubious long-term value and will depend entirely on the personalities and circumstances involved.

2.   Or, like Parliament Square, will it occupy the terrain of a symbolic gesture, alive in legend?

3.   Such language suggests that the riots were less about forcing material change than about making symbolic gestures.

4.   The union leaders appear to be building public support for their cause, with clever use of symbolic gestures and public relations.

5.   They fired arrows out to sea in a symbolic gesture of defiance.

6.   Tearing up the price list was simply a symbolic gesture.

7.   On the Havana seafront several thousand citizens fired blank cartridges, arrows and catapults out to sea in a symbolic gesture of defiance aimed at the USA.

8.   This symbolic gesture seemed to satisfy them.

9.   There will be times when things are happening quickly, and times when everyone is hushed and expectant and everything hinges on a symbolic gesture.