"symbolic" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- There were initial indications of support for the largely symbolic measure from the House leadership and the White House.
- It is plausible to address a fear that is at its root psychological with symbolic measures.
- The ministers approved two largely symbolic measures intended to increase pressure on the Serbs.
- Voting 389 to 34, the House approved steep new penalties for oil companies convicted of "price gouging," a crowd-pleasing but largely symbolic measure.
- Partly as a symbolic measure, the daughter plants a lock of her now cut hair in a flowerpot.
- But the bill is, in some ways, a symbolic measure.
- Paragraph 11 indicates that symbolic measures can replace the shared political outlook represented by applicant status.
- In reality, then, this Fund is a symbolic measure that does not provide solutions.
- While mostly a symbolic measure, the resolution nonetheless shows the historically anti-war campus voices support for the troops and adds pressure from Berkeley residents.
- But some experts, including those sympathetic to the impulse behind the bill, say national plant-closing legislation would be a largely symbolic measure.
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