The phrase "a nice symbol" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a symbol that is aesthetically pleasing or has positive connotations.
Example: "The dove is often seen as a nice symbol of peace and hope."
Alternatives: "a lovely emblem" or "a pleasant representation".
It definitely became a nice symbol of the things that were going well.
"Taking a self-imposed pay cut may be a nice symbol," said Dong Tao, the chief regional economist at Credit Suisse First Boston here.
The chief goal, the bride said, was to create "a visual component to our wedding that was a roof over our heads — it seemed a nice symbol to us of starting our new life in Vermont".
And Consumers Associationn senior policy adviser Mick McAteer says: 'It is all very well having a nice symbol but the industry does not show any sign of addressing its fundamental problems.
A nice symbol of the profusion and the variety of the new Hawaiian cooking is the Sunday brunch at Orchids, the more casual of the two restaurants at the Halekulani Hotel on Waikiki.
The cover is pretty, but it's also a nice symbol of the Chelsea Wedding Story: the human at the center of it all obscured, walking into media speculation about her consumer choices (in this case her wedding dress), and flanked by a bar code.
Unfortunately, it only takes one angry little man with a Chaplin mustache to ruin a perfectly nice symbol (and mustache, for that matter) for the whole world.
He bemoaned the "pathologies being built around people who are poor, that they're going to stay poor," and asked, "How do you create a system of support that doesn't create dependency?" He also praised Toya Graham, the Baltimore mother who was videotaped smacking her sixteen-year-old son for joining the rioters: "It was a nice visual symbol of what needs to be restored".
Twitter and FireEye's successful IPOs have held the public door open for companies like Box and Dropbox to start thinking what a nice ticker symbol might be.
Let's just say it's a nice mix of symbols surrounding flowers, hypnosis, isolation, and consumption.
There she is, smiling down from the top of the page, with a nice blue rose (appropriating the Socialists' symbol, but changing the colour) that lies horizontally between the words "Marine" and "Présidente".
