11.   A goodwill gesture?

12.   But Hillary Clinton could go to an international conference on Chinese soil, making a goodwill gesture without implying any official consequences.

13.   But the Taliban has insisted on prosecuting the killers itself, and it has said that any further goodwill gestures must be the product of international mediation.

14.   Dr. Radovan Karadzic, the leader of the Bosnian Serbs, described their release as a goodwill gesture.

15.   He voiced these sentiments in sort of a goodwill gesture to the Red Sox, who kept him off the playoff roster and then released him in the offseason.

16.   If the offense is deemed unpardonable, the apology becomes an insult and turns a goodwill gesture into grist for future conflicts.

17.   In a goodwill gesture, the Colombian president also withdrew government troops from an expanse of land in southern Colombia the size of Switzerland.

18.   India portrayed the return of the men as a goodwill gesture, though the two countries have been wrangling about the status of the soldiers.

19.   International human rights advocates even predicted that some prisoners might soon be released as a sort of goodwill gesture.