11.   That rat, of course, has to carry a lot of symbolic weight.

12.   The move also carried heavy symbolic weight.

13.   When a century turns, nearly everything assumes a ridiculous symbolic weight.

14.   While it is likely to be vetoed by the United States if introduced, its discussion would nonetheless carry a certain symbolic weight.

15.   But it still carried powerful symbolic weight, since the Ulster Unionists were instrumental in founding Northern Ireland specifically to create a Protestant-majority state.

16.   For the communists, the issue has enormous symbolic weight.

17.   Those moves may carry symbolic weight, but many experts say the real solution is trimming the payroll, privatizing state companies and casting off unproductive enterprises.

18.   Delivering a speech from the podium carries more symbolic weight than one from the floor of the auditorium where non-governmental organizations sit.

19.   Decisions by the supra-national body, which are not subject to appeal, carry an important symbolic weight for those states put in the firing line.