11.   It will be difficult for him to go several symbolic steps further.

12.   Last year the House took a symbolic step, passing a measure to censure China rather than lifting its MFN status.

13.   Russia has strenuously criticized the NATO attacks on a fellow Slavic nation, but has limited its objections to largely symbolic steps.

14.   That is why even in Abu Dis, the Israeli vote was seen as a largely symbolic step.

15.   The ban on new investment will hurt Milosevic more than the more symbolic step of freezing assets.

16.   The House took the symbolic step of censuring China rather than end favorable trade status with the communist nation and risk what some said could be another Cold War.

17.   The magnitude of the ideological divide became apparent this year as justices on both sides often took the deeply symbolic step of reading their dissenting opinions from the bench.

18.   This is just a symbolic step, though, because Clinton already has power to waive the sanctions -- as he did a few years ago against Colombia.

19.   Critics have accused Beijing of taking symbolic steps at opportune moments to deflect foreign censure.

20.   Ilyukhin indicated that some symbolic steps by Yeltsin would suffice to prove his willingness to compromise.