1.   But the symbolic weight of everything about Selma makes such practical considerations almost beside the point.

2.   But the decision carries symbolic weight because Pacific Telesis had just been acquired by SBC.

3.   Clearly, many Surrealist dolls had to bear an awful lot of symbolic weight.

4.   During the present impasse between Israelis and Palestinians, a face-to-face encounter with Arafat would carry symbolic weight.

5.   Forty well-publicized pounds on Sylvester Stallone make for a highly symbolic weight gain, since they usher him into a peer group of heavy acting talent.

6.   Like the World Trade Center itself, the series now carries a symbolic weight it never had before.

7.   Like all of his work, it has characters who carry a heavy symbolic weight.

8.   Only a few thousand Syrian troops were deployed, but the presence of soldiers from such a staunch Arab nationalist country carried heavy symbolic weight.

9.   So in some ways the setting carried symbolic weight of its own.

10.   Still, the move carried symbolic weight at home and abroad.