Sentence examples similar to a helping gesture from inspiring English sources

He ended up passing the course because others at the fire department offered him extra help — a gesture that built trust.

My decision to fix whatever mistakes I had made was not only something I considered my journalistic responsibility but also a gesture toward helping to restore readers' faith in the printed word and the publishing process by showing them that some authors are more concerned with getting it right than saving face.

No 'call for help' gestures.

George H.W. Bush checked his watch during a televised debate, an unfortunate gesture that helped seal his fate as a one term president.

Free market economists have called for the UK to permit imports of chlorinated chicken as a goodwill gesture to help facilitate a comprehensive trade deal.

By making a gesture, people help produce an internal state.

Broad's dramatic gesture helped quash a proposal to merge MOCA into Govan's museum.

The Escher-like inversion was simple but profound, a gesture that helped open to sculpture a new, subterranean dimension.

"Love over hate, that's the message," said one woman, finishing off a poster of support, while in another corner of the square, the Manchester Sikh Community handed out free drinks, a gesture to "help the city at a time when things are bad".

The National Football League wants to buttress the sagging ratings of ABC's "Monday Night Football," an admirable gesture to help a network that is losing a bundle on its marquee property.

Such a gesture could help to forge ties with a military establishment that America needs to know better.