"gesture" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The move, which took place against the backdrop of reforms being brought in by Mikhail Gorbachev, was characterised as a cosmetic gesture aimed to create the illusion of change rather than a Bulgarian version of glasnost and perestroika.
- Does that mean bike riders are going to be driven out of the city in another cosmetic gesture?
- You see, by trying to deal with the problem with surface, cosmetic gestures without acknowledging to themselves the real issues, they've actually made things worse instead of better.
- The Reagan Administration minimized three announcements by the Nicaraguan Government as "cosmetic gestures of compliance" with a Central American peace plan.
- Was the original sale of Osama's shares just a ruse, these lawyers wonder-perhaps a cosmetic gesture to deflect American scrutiny of Osama's fortune?
- The Reagan Administration today dismissed the Nicaraguan Government's announcements that it would allow the reopening of opposition newspapers and radio stations, calling them "cosmetic gestures of compliance" with a Central American peace plan.
- Hence, the State Department last week dismissed Nicaragua's steps as "cosmetic gestures."
- She added, "Even in the last two weeks, even as he made cosmetic gestures in the direction of compliance, his forces committed some of the worst atrocities of the war."
- The Belarusian authorities have made some progress, which is commendable, but we hope that they will initiate a process of democratisation and not simply make some temporary cosmetic gesture.
- All right, they've made a cosmetic gesture on AIDS drugs.
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