1.   And while he dares not defy military commanders on important matters, he lodges a symbolic protest now and then.

2.   But these days, the two are engaged in a war of words and symbolic protests in an increasingly bitter dispute over Nigerian human rights.

3.   Earlier this year, Japan reduced a minor part of its development aid package to China as a symbolic protest against the continued testing.

4.   Symbolic protests are nice, but accomplish little.

5.   A Jordanian plane left for Baghdad late Thursday with fare-paying passengers in a symbolic protest against a U.N. ban on regular commercial flights to Iraq.

6.   At that distance it will be a largely symbolic protest.

7.   Dozens of Polish farmers mounted mostly symbolic protests Thursday by parking machinery across nine roads to demand more government subsidies.

8.   His symbolic protest act included singing and dancing by Indian elders and clouds of fragrant incense.

9.   In a symbolic protest Thursday, a crowd of students washed down the outside walls of the building where the board had met.

10.   In a symbolic protest against the occupation of the border enclave, Lebanese across the country hanged yellow ribbons on their chests or vehicles.