1.   I tried to make choices, but wound up with empty gestures.

2.   Words and empty gestures are not enough!

3.   ...to ensure the event is not perceived as an empty gesture.

4.   Besides, censure is an empty gesture.

5.   AIDS activists dismiss the concessions as empty gestures.

6.   But Democrats and the Social Security commissioner assailed that proposal on Thursday as an empty gesture that could frighten rather than reassure retirees.

7.   For a government that has often been at odds with the IMF, these are not empty gestures.

8.   Hard-on-crime conservatives reject the argument that the law-and-order measures making their way through the New Jersey Legislature are empty gestures.

9.   In the end, raising the age at which a child can fight may be an empty gesture.

10.   It is far more than an empty social gesture, he says.