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Constitutional and legal provisions that make practicing racism a crime punishable by imprisonment have great symbolic significance and help insure - indeed, create and secure - social peace.
He might even offer some symbolic gestures, such as dissociating himself from objectionable political and media figures, or showing leniency towards those he has imprisoned for opposing him.
Six Million SerfsTEL AVIV: The handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China (barely one month old) went beyond the merely political to become a spectacular pageant, celebrating both the return of a lost territory to the Motherland as well as a symbolic end to what was the world’s most far-flung Empire.
But China's performance could become symbolic of a more significant long-term breakthrough--the moment when the country put its fear of the outside world aside and began to emerge as a more pro-active agent of multilateral cooperation.
This would be more than a symbolic loss for European citizens.
There is no political risk involved; the Swiss have no powerful lobby in the United States or the EU that they can mobilize; as the birthplace of private banking, Switzerland has enormous symbolic value; as the world leader in private banking, it triggers jealousies.
But Steinbrueck also made it clear that he expects any sanctions in response to Germany’s predicted 3.4%-of-GDP fiscal deficit to be largely symbolic, not penalties that would cost its government or economy anything of significance.
From the male point of view, resorting to outside police or judicial intervention would signify an inability to fight one’s own battles – an admission of defeat and a symbolic castration.
Symbolic political acts resemble theatre.
But, as one Indian friend explained to me, this is mainly symbolic politics for India’s Left.
A constitutional amendment that allowed symbolic changes, like an official declaration of Catalonia as a “nation,” or substantive initiatives, like a fiscal pact, would satisfy most Catalans while maintaining Spain’s territorial integrity.
Indeed, one could argue that such symbolic acts may even create a blind euphoria that obscures the fact that, as a result of less education and lower pay, young females in India continue to have far fewer resources than their male counterparts.
Eliminating its remaining external tariffs, even if largely symbolic, could reinforce the simple truth that trade is not a zero-sum game, but a mutually beneficial endeavor.
But symbolic gestures are not enough.
These powerful symbolic gestures will have both short- and long-term effects.
The Kaesong Industrial Region has had special symbolic resonance.
Palin’s symbolic appeal to a certain group of female voters is important to understand, and we must respect the rage and hunger that it reflects.
So, when Sarah Palin is escorted into the media limelight, she becomes the symbolic revenge fantasy of many of those silenced, exhausted factory workers and secretaries.
That said, Palin’s sinking approval ratings show that, while such women thrill to symbolic validation, they are not fools.
The fierce debate concerning the presidency underscored the symbolic significance of the post in Turkey’s domestic balance of power.
Until only recently, it seemed that the more important the symbolic importance of a case, the harsher China’s official response invariably would be.
Almost overnight, the humble bibliographic reference acquired symbolic significance, and science gained a scorecard.
The United States and others are substituting high rhetoric and symbolic punitive action for real action on Syria.
For Chinese, such cultic movements have deep symbolic significance because of their association with the idea of dynastic decay and collapse.
A more useful symbolic figure than 0.4% would be 1%, and this, added to existing levels of government aid (which in every country of the world except Denmark fall below 1% of GNP, and in the US is only 0.1%) might be closer to what it would take to eliminate, rather than halve, global poverty.
The obvious way to accomplish this would be to conclude an EU-wide agreement on greater national control over immigration and other symbolic issues related to national sovereignty.
All of the symbolic attributes of power have been transferred to Kim Jong-un – reflected in his official position in the funeral ceremonies, his presidency of the Military Commission, and his assumption of the ruling party’s highest rank – with remarkable speed.
Sarkozy may want to be a combination of Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair, but in symbolic terms he is also the Queen.
And, in his quest for modernity and transparency, he has de-legitimized the symbolic dimension of his function by mixing his private and public lives.
Moreover, if Sarkozy has eroded, perhaps fatally, the “sacred” symbolic nature of the presidency, his governance has failed to provide any compensating reassurance.
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