1.   It was as though that one, symbolic act gave him permission to live his life his way.

2.   Lighting the Olympic flame is a symbolic act.

3.   The deeply symbolic ritual act of treading the earth affirms the relationship of human beings to their native soil.

4.   The symbolic act could not have been more significant.

5.   The Tibetan climber will pass the Olympic flame to his Chinese partner in a symbolic act of friendship.

6.   The wearing of an armband to express certain views is the kind of symbolic act protected by that amendment.

7.   Yet there could be no more symbolic act of defiance than a currency with a separate exchange rate against the rouble.

8.   People threw flowers into the river between the two countries as a symbolic act of brotherhood.

9.   The UNTAC human rights chief, Dennis McNamara, described the signing of the covenants as a pragmatic as well as a symbolic act.

10.   There is little emphasis on symbolic acts and little formal teaching of politics as such.