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Before they began building their islands in the South China Sea, they spent several months testing possible US reactions through symbolic moves.
In a world searching for providential leaders, the case of Ariel Sharon is both symbolic and paradoxical, for this universal man remains one of the most controversial figures of recent decades.
Meanwhile, America’s strategic partnership with Pakistan, where Obama won a significant symbolic victory by eliminating Osama bin Laden, is in tatters.
The death of Havel, a great believer in European integration, is thus highly symbolic: he was one of the last of a now-extinct breed of politicians who could lead effectively in extraordinary times, because their first commitment was to common decency and the common good, not to holding power.
Hostility to GMOs is symbolic of broader opposition to the encroachment of market forces that are perceived to be creating a world in which money rules with nary a consideration for historical traditions, cultural identities, and social needs.
Instead of seeking a face-saving compromise on softening the troika program, Tsipras wasted six months on symbolic battles over economically irrelevant issues such as labor laws, privatizations, even the name of the troika.
Like a computer program, DNA does not preserve the final state of what it codes for; rather, it embeds in a symbolic but concrete way (it is a real “text”) the relationships between all the objects and agents that it specifies and controls.
The rulings have not been merely symbolic.
Communism, as a ruling ideology, disappeared in Russia and has become so diluted in capitalist China that little more than its symbolic trappings – and a Leninist party with a monopoly on power – remain.
In this context, EU High Representative Catherine Ashton’s meeting with dissidents during her most recent trip to Tehran was merely a symbolic gesture.
If one compares those images with pictures of the young, insecure Gandhi dressed as a proper British lawyer, one can see how carefully he understood symbolic communication.
It is not surprising that Lee’s legacy would become a symbolic flashpoint, given America’s history of race relations.
(This is not the first case of a soccer match taking on symbolic significance in the EU: in the summer of 2012, at the height of the eurozone’s debt crisis, the decisive European summit occurred at the same time as a European Cup match between Italy and Germany.)
But symbolic measures, while important, are not enough to bring about real progress.
These structural reforms are much more important than fiscal targets, both in symbolic terms for the rest of Europe and for the Greek economy.
Three months later, Tung resigned for “health reasons” and was elected Vice Chairman of the largely symbolic Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.
Whatever symbolic value this may have is overshadowed by the fact that the statute of limitations already precludes any legal action on this issue.
But now I do not need your symbolic votes;I need your concrete support.
In one famous symbolic gesture, he appeared at a rugby game wearing the jersey of the South African Springboks, a team that had previously signified South African white supremacy.
While Israeli officials are technically right that the country’s vote in the UN would have had little impact, its symbolic value cannot be overstated.
Obama’s electoral triumph arrives at a symbolic moment in Palestinian history.
But, for China, which needs no recognition as a rising world power, the BRICS offers tangible – not just symbolic – benefits.
The best way for a country to rehabilitate its reputation is to accept the truth about past atrocities and the responsibility, both symbolic and material, that it owes to the victims and their survivors.
Such symbolic politics forms a key part of the mainland's relentless effort to isolate Taiwan internationally.
Indeed, in extraordinary times like those, symbols matter, and many of my early actions as prime minister were wholly or in part symbolic.
Those symbolic gestures spoke to the core of our entire political program.
This sudden scarcity of an element whose symbolic and spiritual importance matches its centrality to human life will cause stress and exacerbate conflicts worldwide.
Thus, Morales’s leadership brought together three strongly symbolic dimensions: nationalist sentiment, concern for the poor, and emerging ethnic pride among Bolivia’s native peoples.
Moving the US embassy to Jerusalem is a far more powerful symbolic move, suggesting that it could spur even more formidable resistance – and not just from the 300,000 Palestinians who live in East Jerusalem, or even from the more than 12 million Palestinians around the world.
But the best feasible target would be a tiny symbolic surplus for the primary balance (which excludes interest payments on debt) this year, and a gradual increase thereafter to a realistic 1.5-2% of GDP.
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