"symbolic" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- According to him the presence of international troops was merely symbolic and they were not supposed to use force.
- While few of the state laws will have as much impact as California's, they are not merely symbolic.
- In general the sarcophagi are merely symbolic, and the actual body lies below the floor.
- It was suggested in the last chapter that some so-called 'policies' may be merely symbolic.
- The political significance of tonight's meeting was merely symbolic, since the county does not have the power to close the plant.
- If it were merely symbolic, it would not have to be this large.
- Of course, the act was merely symbolic: the gold's temporary return to the earth.
- But that makes the value of these newly identified species - and of all others - merely symbolic.
- We don't expect the visits themselves to be merely symbolic.
- Her role as head of the church is merely symbolic.
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