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.