French officials have been quoted as saying they will send no more, but General Jones appeared to leave open the possibility that Mr. Sarkozy would make such a gesture during the visit.
As he did on both earlier occasions, Mr. Abe instead sent a traditional offering signed in the name of the prime minister but paid out of his own pocket, in an apparent effort to appease his supporters without making too official a gesture or actually visiting.
For all his many dismissals of smaller states like Australia, President Putin made a gesture in 2007 to visit Australia on an extended visit for the APEC summit, making him the first serving Russian president to give the country a measure of diplomatic respect.
2ec8d79d-af27-46f5-a06a-b1f0f18133e1 As a gesture to help the visiting Olympic crowds understand their British hosts, a chain of pubs called Geronimo Inns has put together some videos to help explain British culture.
Likewise, when the pope kissed a bowl of Palestinian soil -- a gesture usually observed on visits to sovereign states -- it led Suha Arafat, the wife of the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat, to exclaim: "Everybody from our Palestinian people understood it as asking for a Palestinian independent state".
The two leading political figures in East Timor -- José Alexandre Gusmão, left, and José Ramos Horta -- arrived in Jakarta, Indonesia, for a two-day visit in a gesture of reconciliation two years after the territory broke from Indonesian rule.
Clinton has said her one-day visit is a "gesture of solidarity" with protesters.
Griffiths ran away not to celebrate the goal but to make a gesture of apology to the visiting fans down that end of Celtic Park.
Forty-nine wereleasedsed Thursday in a gesture of good will after the visit of the Pakistani prime minister, Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali.
In 1992 he formally apologised for the use of "comfort women" during a visit to South Korea, a gesture that is unlikely to be repeated by Abe.
As a gesture of good will before the visit of the Soviet negotiators, Mr. Hekmatyar supplied Moscow with the names of three missing men whose whereabouts had not been known until now, and invited their families to send them parcels and letters.
