It is a sop to India, more symbolic than substantive.
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If you ask me, these sweethearts are more symbolic than appetizing.
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So I think that the destruction of property is more [symbolic].
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Still, some have interpreted that effort as more symbolic than influential.
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Any loss from cancellation, though, would be more symbolic than economic.
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Thus far, however, Trump's orders have been more symbolic than transformative.
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Well, no, but there's nothing more symbolic of the season than flowers.
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Other financial signals of disapproval have been more symbolic than clearly harmful.
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More symbolic than anything else, but nevertheless a wonderful day for all.
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The newest action against Khusyaynova is more symbolic than impactful to Putin.
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But EU officials expect any moves to be more symbolic than substantive.
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There are few technologies more symbolic of western medicine than the stethoscope.
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The English moors: Is there a setting more symbolic of isolation and despair?
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The vote in the Dutch Senate on Tuesday was more symbolic than substantive.
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So the grant of subpoena power to Republicans is more symbolic than practical.
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The move would be more symbolic than substantive because those were already illegal.
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Somehow, moving the swing set seems more symbolic than another piece of lawn furniture.
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But there's a larger, more symbolic, concern about the light consequence Taylor faced, too.
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A victory by the challengers would most likely be more symbolic than policy based.
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But by then, the issue had taken on a weight more symbolic than substantive.
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But it turns out the policy may be more symbolic than it initially appeared.
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Heyns said that ban, which critics have labeled more symbolic than severe, was important.
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Proof that the congressional Ethics Committees are toothless and more symbolic than anything else?
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This could mean signing on to the bill is more symbolic than substantive for Republicans.
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Where it stands: The value of the proposed European SPV is more symbolic than economic.
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Couldn't be more symbolic: Check out the clouds that passed over the White House yesterday.
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" Still, Professor Feldman acknowledged that the upshot of his position was "more symbolic than practical.
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Today, there is only one U.S. assembly plant and it is more symbolic than substantive.
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Fernandez, the moderate Peronist challenger, is expected to come out ahead in the more symbolic primaries.
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" He said Tuesday his "punch" comment — made in a video released last month — was "more symbolic.
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Still, the ostensible darkness and bodily transformation might be more symbolic of liberation and creative freedom.
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Executive orders range from consequential moves to more symbolic documents that signal a chief executive's priorities.
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That move, more symbolic than substantive, followed similar action from the U.S. Federal Reserve last week.
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That meant the name change was more symbolic than anything, or at the very least, poorly timed.
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Nowhere has America's role as a liberal leader been more symbolic than in its embrace of immigrants.
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That was more symbolic of letting go of the person and accepting that they were really gone.
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For this season, at least, Westbrook and Oklahoma City's accomplishments will likely be more symbolic than anything.
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"All the more symbolic and harmful to court the Russian president in this manner," he said in August.
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While those withdrawals could have a significant impact on the court's standing internationally, Russia's withdrawal is more symbolic.
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Still, the ban is more symbolic than it is the beginning of an effective campaign against hate groups.
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On a more symbolic level, the names Abraham, Umbrae, and Pluto have significant meaning in mythology and religion.
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On the other hand, it could be more symbolic than that -- and more reminiscent of our own past.
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Patrick Song, fund manager at CSOP Asset Management, said the latest steps were more symbolic at this stage.
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It's hard to imagine a more symbolic setting for Kesha's comeback than Knight's monument to tenacity and faith.
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I hope these photos are of something in between the subject and myself, something more symbolic and archetypal.
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In a way, Abolish ICE has been a more symbolic opposition to Trump's immigration agenda as a whole.
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Benjamin Netanyahu's meeting with Mr. Trump today is likely to be more symbolic than substantive, our reporter writes.
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Freeland becomes minister of intergovernmental affairs and also takes on the more symbolic role of deputy prime minister.
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He promises Sabrina that she's not actually turning over her soul, but rather that it's a more symbolic gesture.
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Building a concrete wall — something that no one within government has asked for — would be more symbolic than practical.
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Little did we know, however, that season 7 might actually be another piece in a larger, more symbolic puzzle.
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Turkey slapped retaliatory sanctions on two U.S. officials Saturday which "appeared more symbolic than practical," the Associated Press reports.
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The lieutenant governorship is an office far more symbolic than substantive, with a limited budget and few formal responsibilities.
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Simply by stating, "We needed you," Jerry communicates that Ezekiel's value has always been more symbolic than anything else.
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But none of these expressions of raw political power has carried more symbolic weight than the new basic law.
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"Cutting expenses are stopgap measures, and won't do much to improve its bottom line," Ko said, calling them more "symbolic".
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Experts said the agreement is likely to be more symbolic than a concrete commitment to exploration in the disputed waters.
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Trump's choice of a surgeon general could also shape the national conversation on vaccines, but that appointment is more symbolic.
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Others believe it is more symbolic of having Jesus' spirit among us and a recognition of his suffering on our behalf.
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Nothing could be more symbolic of the populist spending spree that has underpinned Correa's agenda since he became president in 2007.
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It got me thinking about what sorts of political interventions might carry a little more oomph, a little more symbolic weight.
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It's just more symbolic of the lack of control or power that Black women had, and have, over our own bodies.
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Which makes it both more symbolic, as a test of what sort of left France wants, and more complex to manage.
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"The latest sanctions are more symbolic than anything else, as the oil sector remains exempted," said UBS oil analyst Giovanni Staunovo.
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Greer's contributions—a resin doughnut and a coffee cup—are less spectacle and more symbolic of his relationship with the city.
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An even more symbolic anniversary to recall now is the New Year's Day exactly six decades before: It was on Jan.
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That makes their temporary return even more symbolic, said Stewart, whose ancestors appear posing with basketry in a photograph in the exhibit.
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"Nuclear power stations are in fact less sensitive but more symbolic since these flyovers are particularly irksome to the authorities," he said.
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The French National Assembly adopted the same recognition for animals in 2015, although the change was criticized as more symbolic than revolutionary.
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In many ways, the defeat was more symbolic than substantive; the Senate wasn't passing a farm bill with those work requirements anyway.
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"That may have more symbolic value than anything else," said University of Iowa law professor Andy Grewal, referring to a House vote.
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Economists were surprised by the move but said at just five basis points, the increases were small and more symbolic than substantive.
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"I think that subtracting an element of the real allows the photograph to express itself in more symbolic terms," Mr. Pellegrin said.
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Some of these are more symbolic than literal, as when she and Noah arrive to discover everyone else is wearing all white.
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Even if the effect is more symbolic than financial, there is little question that social media have proved to be potent weapons.
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And they can propose amendments that are more symbolic than anything, showing Mr. Trump and Republican voters that they are fighting back.
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There are only so many of those thinking or feeling words, so what I do see is people playing in more symbolic territory.
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With the NFL, NBA, and MLB no longer claiming tax exemptions, the payoff for Chaffetz's bill likely will be more symbolic than financial.
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As it turns out, some of those are against already infamous Russian cybercriminals, although the sanctions may be more symbolic than anything else.
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There is perhaps no image more symbolic of Uber's tightening stranglehold on the taxi industry than the parking lot at McGuinness Management Corporation.
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This is ostensibly to prevent shoplifting but it felt more symbolic, as though you must leave any remnant of the outside world behind.
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Given the still-fluid nature of the Trump administration and its policies, Mr. Netanyahu's visit is likely to be more symbolic than substantive.
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What to watch: No ground-breaking trade, investment or security announcements came out of the summit, suggesting the gathering was more symbolic than substantive.
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If you'd rather perform a more symbolic ritual, you can express your gratitude by "simply lighting a candle and saying 'thank you,'" Blake says.
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He added that he expects there to be a Republican primary challenge to the president, but suggested it would be more "symbolic" than serious.
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Coal jobs carry far more symbolic and therefore political heft, however, since no one has yet figured out how to romanticize solar-panel installation.
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CEO Sebastian Serrano (pictured at the top) told TechCrunch that the name is better suited for running a consumer business — it's also more symbolic.
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"There's no more effective thing, no more symbolic thing that can be done than the reinstatement of college in America's prisons," Mr. Kenner said.
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But, after news from Kensington Palace on Monday, there will be another -- less consequential, yet far more symbolic -- landmark for the UK's history books.
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Twitter's Jack Dorsey, on the other hand, has actually purchased stock on multiple occasions as a more symbolic way of showing faith in the company.
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On Monday, South Korean President Moon Jae-in's special security adviser, Moon Chung-in, told reporters any such designation would be "more symbolic than substance".
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However, White House aides have played down expectations for significant progress on the peace process during Trump's stop, casting it as more symbolic than substantive.
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Is it something really substantial, which would be fantastic; or is it something more symbolic, and indicative of further discussions and negotiations down the road?
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Milton was always a superb draftsman, but he took realism and reduced it, and started making more symbolic work, with a Magritte quality to it.
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"My intent was to create a report that would be less descriptive and more symbolic of the human condition of the boys," she tells Creators.
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Alexander Vershbow, former NATO deputy secretary-general, said joining the coalition would be more symbolic than anything but that it would give Trump a win.
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An exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art illustrates how, over time, Munch moved away from observational painting toward something more symbolic and emotional.
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"We can expect polished statements," from both sides, but it is more symbolic than anything, said Mathieu Boulegue, research fellow at independent policy institute Chatham House.
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For many voters, ideological placement is more symbolic than it is substantive, and in particular, moderates are especially muddy and incoherent in what they actually want.
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"The measure has more symbolic significance than actual impact, especially for the feed industry," said Cherry Zhang, a grains analyst with Shanghai JC Intelligence Co Ltd.
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The battle over a budget is more symbolic because the spending levels were set last year in a deal between the president and the Republican Congress.
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Analysts at Eurasia Group predicted that the U.S. legislation codifying and modestly expanding sanctions on Moscow would most likely prompt a "more symbolic than substantive" response.
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But none of these were more symbolic of our struggle with the wicked weather pattern than this Lamborghini that dared to drive where SUVs would not tread.
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Worse, the ways in which they are spending money are more symbolic acts meant to drive anger, rather than practical ones that could actually make us safer.
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Between the lines: Lerer writes that this rejection "may be more symbolic than financial" because corporate donations really only make up a tiny fraction of political finance.
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Perched at the edge of Manhattan and facing the Westside Highway, Via 57 West postures itself as an experimental prototype, at this stage more symbolic than pragmatic.
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There is perhaps no case in Veracruz more symbolic of Mexican journalists' struggle than that of Ms. Martínez, a correspondent for Proceso, a stalwart of independent coverage.
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But the sentence is more symbolic in nature, as Mr. Musharraf is currently in self-imposed exile in Dubai and is unlikely to return to the country.
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"It's — how do we get them connected in a meaningful way besides these more symbolic kinds of things?" said Karen Wintrow, the president of the Village Council.
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In 1871, the Independent Party of San Joaquin County nominated her for state senator, though the move was more symbolic; there was little hope of her winning.
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Smog Free Tower, a project by Studio Roosegaarde, is a practical approach to Beijing's pollution epidemic, a departure from a more symbolic project like Brother Nut's vacuumed bricks.
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However, since the economy has been expanding at such a strong pace, analysts said the cut was again more symbolic of Beijing's intention to further control debt growth.
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White House aides have played down expectations for significant progress on the peace process between Israelis and Palestinians during Trump's stop, casting it as more symbolic than substantive.
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Analysts caution that the deals often appear more symbolic than transformative and say it's not clear if Russia has the resources, or desire, to continue expanding its presence.
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While the added power means it can move heavier payloads into space and out toward distant destinations, such as Mars, the first Falcon Heavy launch is more symbolic.
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No proposal is more symbolic of Trump's pledge to combat illegal immigration, and generally place "America first," than his pledge to build that famous wall along the Mexican border.
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After nonstop candidate traffic in Iowa for most of full year, the endorsements were the like the gun sounding on the final lap, a ritual more symbolic than influential.
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But if he meant that direwolves have no place in Winterfell, where each of the Stark children raised their direwolf pups, the moment feels much sadder and more symbolic.
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A final versus Rafael Nadal, the nine-time French Open champion who turned 30 on Friday, would have been more symbolic, but Nadal is out with a wrist injury.
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And the more symbolic value a work builds, through literature, scholarly discourse, or programs like this, the more economic value collectors are willing to shell out on owning it.
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Freeland, who rose to prominence by leading Canada's team at talks to renegotiate a new continental trade deal, also takes on the more symbolic role of deputy prime minister.
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The vote was more symbolic than practical: No one has ever been prosecuted for blasphemy in modern Ireland, and in practice the ban had never led to a prosecution.
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Rather than sticking to a literalistic depiction of the woods of Fairyland, Robert Carsen sets his adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream in a more symbolic land of beds.
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So even policies that might be more symbolic than impactful — like building more physical barriers on the US/Mexico border and calling them a "wall" — end up being offensive.
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The places and events targeted tend to be only vaguely symbolic (some more symbolic than others) — a Bastille Day parade in Nice celebrating French nationalism and unity is obviously a bit more symbolic than, say, a small holiday party held in a mundane office building in San Bernardino — and the people targeted for the killing are almost always regular folks who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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But Friday's transfer of power from President Barack Obama's Democratic administration to Trump's nationalist Republican presidency featured many more symbolic moments from the former and new presidents and their families.
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Last week, around 60 percent of BP shareholders rejected Bob Dudley's £14 million pay package – although the revolt was more symbolic as the pay had already been received by Dudley.
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The black and white sock takes on a more symbolic meaning of polarization, but also stands for creating a dialogue about our collective future and the one of our planet.
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The sanctions' impact will be more symbolic than practical, especially as they do not affect the lifting of broader U.S. and international sanctions that took place under the nuclear deal.
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"GSP is more symbolic of the strategic relationship, not in value terms," added the source, who declined to be identified ahead of a news briefing by the Indian trade ministry.
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The truth about this: It is already the position of the government that currency manipulation is bad, so this would take a symbolic act and make it even more symbolic.
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A senior western diplomat said that the SDF was made up of almost 90 percent Kurdish fighters and that Arab representation was more symbolic and within the SDF's Political echelons.
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"This is a more symbolic, dramatic break than we've seen before — and it seems to be having some effect," said Bruce O. Riedel, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
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On a more symbolic note, Sunday would also be Taiwanese Culture Night at Barclays Center, a homage of sorts for Jeremy Lin, the Nets' top free-agent signing last summer.
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"But the moves are more symbolic in nature, and will give limited support to market liquidity," he said, adding the new daily cap of 20 contracts is still too restrictive.
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It is understandable that well-meaning reporters will push for as much access to the government as possible, but arguing over largely superficial press briefings is more symbolic than substantive.
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Even if much of high finance has decamped to Midtown Manhattan or somewhere else along the high-frequency trading wires, that old downtown of America's largest city has more symbolic heft.
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I am still currently making more photographs of different areas around the city, hoping to find more symbolic imagery that can show a different side of what I've already been photographing.
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And you even see those things in more symbolic moments of life, like when our grandfather died my brother was one of the people that carried the casket and I wasn't.
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And trade between the United States and Britain is already so free of tariffs that a deal would probably be of far more symbolic importance than a spur to increased commerce.
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And in a move that is perhaps more symbolic than substantive, Princeton University has, for its 603 class, accepted 260 transfer students, the first such students it has enrolled since 242.
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The trade deal "looks more symbolic than substantial, and might be better described as simply an 'interim trade war truce,"' said Ray Attrill, head of FX strategy at National Australia Bank.
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The decision by the two airlines is more "symbolic" and doesn't cut any meaningful discount, said Henry Harteveldt, a travel-industry expert and founder of the consulting group Atmosphere Research Group.
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The division we saw in the Congressional audience during the State of the Union address, the clapping and the refusal to clap were more symbolic than we might otherwise have noticed.
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Netanyahu's office even asked the Trump team in charge of planning the visit if the prime minister could accompany the president to the wall — which would be an even more symbolic gesture.
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Blood play can also involve more symbolic gestures, such as wearing a vial of your partner's blood as a necklace, says Galen Fous, a kink-positive sex therapist and fetish sex educator.
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That includes a serious push for single-payer health care in California and, in a more symbolic gesture, Sanders' plan to again introduce a similar "Medicare-for-all" bill on Capitol Hill.
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Unlike the Golden Record, these messages are not intended for extraterrestrial viewing, unless their technology, against all odds, harmonizes with our own; they're more symbolic of a collective force behind space exploration.
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Or, the playlist could be more symbolic, like pieces that tell a story when played together, demonstrate a theme from a novel or capture the essence of a time period or setting.
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If Trump wants to fulfill his campaign promise, it seems increasingly likely he'll have to turn to more symbolic arrangements to show that Mexico is the one paying the price for the wall.
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President Emmanuel Macron has already announced a national campaign to rebuild the church, kick-started by large personal donations from the wealthy, but as ever the "widow's mite" will be far more symbolic.
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The timing of the party, set in the very recent and miserably memorable past, lends even more symbolic weight: it's just a week after the white-supremacist riot and murder in Charlottesville, Virginia .
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"GSP (Generalized System of Preferences) is more symbolic of the strategic relationship not in value terms," the source said, declining to be named ahead of a press briefing by the Indian trade ministry.
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The vandalism here is more symbolic, but it still raises necessary questions about control and privatization of digital real estate, and how massive corporations can co-opt this endless canvas of pixelated pseudo-reality.
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This advance may be more symbolic than practical right now, but merely showing a working example of atomic data storage, orders of magnitude smaller than state of the art techniques, is practically science fiction.
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"He's been around so long that he's taken on a more symbolic meaning for audiences — connecting older ones with their own youths and reflecting on their own journeys through life and identity," Thomas said.
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Trump and Kim will this month have an even more symbolic backdrop for their next meeting: Vietnam, a country which transformed itself from bitter US enemy to peaceful partner in less than 50 years.
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"The greater impact is more symbolic than anything else - Ford has been WPP's flagship client and, with the departure of Martin Sorrell, there will be inevitable questions over whether that was a factor," he said.
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Gordon Adams, who oversaw defense budgets at the Office of Management and Budget in the Clinton administration, said Trump's $603 billion defense budget right now is more symbolic than anything, since it lacks key details.
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However, Afiya Zia, a Pakistani activist and academic, in her new book "Faith and Feminism in Pakistan" says his policies were "more symbolic than transformative" while the backlash of radical conservatism against women went unchecked.
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"They had a few meetings with a bunch of fanfare, but it was more symbolic than anything else," said Anat R. Admati, a professor of finance and economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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The final text of the memo on the fiduciary rule is more symbolic than substantive, asking the Labor Department to examine whether the regulation reduces investor choice in retirement savings, disrupts the market and increases litigation.
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Fans famously celebrated the news that the pair had given Harry a joint Christmas present in the fourth book; what could be more symbolic of a gay partnership than giving their surrogate kid a present together?
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Obviously more symbolic at this stage than statistical, its recent acquisition of Whole Foods, a grocery brand more associated with "posh" and "expensive", should also be a reminder of where the path of least resistance lies.
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Whether you usually prefer strawberries or pride yourself on being an apple-a-day kind of person, you have the admit that there's nothing more symbolic of the start of summer than slicing open a ginormous watermelon.
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As elected officials who draw their powers — and their paychecks — from the public, they at times assume a more symbolic role: that of the community defender, one who is responsive to, and responsible for, the constituents they serve.
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As apocalyptic images of wildfire ripping through California's wine country continue to emerge, perhaps none is more symbolic of a devastated wine industry than the "boiling river of wine" spotted flowing through Paradise Ridge Winery in Santa Rosa.
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But one of the factors, "a compatible cultural and community environment," seems more symbolic than substantive, as some of the cities and states that are favorites for its future home, commonly called HQ2, are hotbeds of LGBTQ discrimination.
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Mr. Sessions's pronouncement that the attack falls under the federal legal definition of "domestic terrorism" also may carry more symbolic value than legal substance because that label is not a stand-alone federal crime that can be charged.
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McVeigh said he initially planned a campaign of assassinations by targeting Attorney General Janet Reno, a federal judge, and an FBI sniper who was present at Ruby Ridge, but ultimately decided to strike a more symbolic target instead.
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The three distinct installations are each constructed from the visual language of the company, so that we move from well-organized corporate marketing materials, to a more symbolic, anarchic visual language of deconstructed gallery walls to represent Ethereum.
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What began as a rally against legislation that would have allowed for the extradition of Hong Kong residents to China to face trial has ballooned into a much more symbolic battle to fight Chinese encroachment in the semiautonomous region.
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That institution is dedicated to the Battle of Westerplatte, the first battle of the war in September 222.4, when Polish forces fended off the Nazis before surrendering — an event he regards as more symbolic of heroic Polish self-defense.
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"They had a few meetings with a bunch of fanfare, but it was more symbolic than anything else," Anat R. Admati, a professor of finance and economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, told The New York Times.
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He said "the U.S. presence is more symbolic than really there to fight against North Korea," given the strength of the South Korean military and the fact that North Korea's missiles are a bigger threat than an actual invasion.
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His fixation on the city seems to go hand in hand with both his repeated inaccurate statements about rising crime and his regular conflating of black people with "inner city" residents — using a term that has more symbolic than descriptive value.
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Today, those who celebrate the equinox make preparations that are more symbolic than practical, Jennings says, but the need to observe the changing of the seasons — and how that change affects us personally — remains at the heart of the holiday.
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But the law could prove to be more symbolic than practical, as it requires at least 90 of the house's 120 members to vote in favor of any impeachment, a majority that may be hard to achieve in the fractious Knesset.
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But this initiative may be more symbolic than substantive since we know that no matter the evidence, no case on the Syrian conflict is likely to ever reach the International Criminal Court (ICC) as neither Russia nor Syria are members.
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Some analysts said the announcement may at this stage be a more symbolic warning to banks, aimed at discouraging them from being too active in cross-border yuan transactions as part of the PBOC's broader campaign to stabilize the yuan.
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HONG KONG — When North and South Korea fielded a joint women's ice hockey team for the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the decision turned out to be more symbolic than practical: The team lost all of its games, sometimes by embarrassingly wide margins.
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Cheng's detention is even more symbolic for where it may have taken place: Not at the primary border crossings of Lok Ma Chau and Lo Wu, across from the Chinese city of Shenzhen, but in the heart of Hong Kong.
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"There's no better symbol to represent America today than a flag but then for an eagle to land on a fire truck holding a flag, I mean, it doesn't get much more symbolic than that," Streich said, KARE-TV reports.
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Maybe his Bruce Wayne is meant to be seen as a sentimental fan favorite, a character who is more symbolic than he is integral — a Batman on his last legs who will pass on the cape and cowl to someone else.
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"I don't think they have much of a case, and they probably know they don't have much of a case, but it's sort of more symbolic to try to threaten and keep American legislators from passing any reforms on the program," Costa said.
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The fact that the impact on the two most valuable technology companies in the world was not something Warren explicitly noted in her rollout of the policy is perhaps a sign that her proposal is, on some level, more symbolic than practical.
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If you find a more symbolic immortality through the Republican Party, modern art, or the judicial system, it still becomes important for you to stick up for that when you feel threatened, to protect your own unique way of managing the terror of death.
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While those who have gone down the often-regrettable path of inking a loved ones' name on them only to split up opt for laser removal or a tattoo cover-up, the former Spice Girl decided on a much more symbolic and dramatic act.
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In addition to more symbolic gestures, like failing to recognize L.G.B.T. Pride Month, Trump has taken a plethora of anti-gay actions "to pacify the intolerant base of his party," says Jimmy LaSalvia, a longtime gay conservative activist who left the G.O.P. in 2014.
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"Voting" by the NPC is far more symbolic than the term is understood in the U.S. Last year, the congress of about 3,000 delegates overwhelmingly approved the removal of term limits, allowing Xi to remain in power beyond the conclusion of his second five-year term.
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Trudeau, whose election win last year was warmly welcomed by Chinese leaders, may also trim plans for a full week visit to China ahead of a G20 summit in September, deciding instead to take a shorter, more symbolic trip with less focus on trade than initially predicted.
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As financial markets doubt the wisdom of raising rates in what is the European Union's slowest-growing economy, sterling's fall on Thursday suggests the Bank's reversal of last year's emergency post-Brexit rate cut is more symbolic rather than a real attempt to rein in credit growth.
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Though the steps have made headlines, experts cautioned that their significance might be more symbolic than practical, coming as the kingdom faces weightier problems, like the ideological threat posed by the Islamic State, rising frustration among the young, and the disappearance of cushy jobs that oil revenues once made possible.
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He became the only quarterback in franchise history to throw for a least 300 yards and three touchdowns in a postseason game, and no moment was more symbolic than the first of those scoring tosses — a 53-yarder to Alshon Jeffery, who spurned the Vikings last off-season to sign with Philadelphia.
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The choice of Singapore, a tidy, prosperous city-state with ties to both the United States and North Korea, is a small victory for Mr. Trump's advisers, who talked him out of meeting Mr. Kim in the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea — a far more symbolic, but politically problematic, location.
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Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE's meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last week might have been more symbolic than the president-elect knew.
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Rather than sticking to a literalistic depiction of the woods of Fairyland, Carsen sets Shakespeare's beloved story in a more symbolic land of beds — in the first act on a huge and inviting one, in the second and third on a series of smaller ones that allow the characters to switch places in various couplings.
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" He highlighted the president's executive order on religion and churches' freedom of expression (which a number of critics, including Vox's Alissa Wilkinson, have pointed out is more symbolic than useful), characterizing it as an example that the president has "been standing for the things that the people in this room and this ministry have stood for.
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It was the second time in barely more than a year that Britain had defied American dominance; the first was in March, last year, in a move even more symbolic and significant than yesterday when Britain, reportedly without warning or consultation, broke with American leadership and became the first Western country to team up with China's Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).
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Here's a list — and not a comprehensive one — of many of the most significant ways that Trump's policies have succeeded in shaping U.S. environmental policy, ranging from large structural changes to the way regulations are written to smaller, more symbolic gestures: The Paris climate agreement, which is nonbinding for the signers, aims to hold the Earth to warming fewer than two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures.
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Nothing could have been more symbolic of exactly what had disturbed South Africans back in the 2000s about the trajectory of their politics: that leaders who'd once represented the people had become their adversaries; that power brokers were using fully legitimate channels and nice-sounding language to achieve unjust ends; that evildoers draped themselves carefully in the globally recognized apparel and rhetoric of virtue.
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