"symbolic" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Today, the abortion language in the legislation is so limited that it represents little more than a symbolic concession to pro-life Republicans.
- Yet the President doggedly continues to insist that he will not make even a symbolic concession on abortion.
- Molly forced Kate into symbolic concessions like eating dinner with her instead of with Peter and then making it up to him later, or more likely, eating twice.
- Tokyo's Quota Trick Count meaningless but symbolic concessions as one of Japan's newest exports.
- The result of these meetings was that the Executive Committee agreed to nine largely symbolic concessions that modified the CPD's new proposal.
- "White House is unwilling to make even a symbolic concession on abortion that might anger these groups."
- And he had done so without offering anything more than a few symbolic concessions.
- They were given enough symbolic concessions to win over the moderates, and the rest were repressed by the political police.
- They were frequently left out in the cold and were fobbed off with symbolic concessions - such as a tatty play space instead of a decent nursery.
- "The Lithuanians are asking for drastic change, even independence, and so giving them their cathedral was an easy, symbolic concession," he said.
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