Sentence examples for a symbolic effort from inspiring English sources

But will it be a symbolic effort or a functional attempt to force a confrontation?

While research whaling has hurt Japan's image abroad, it has enjoyed political support here as a symbolic effort to defend Japanese culture from outside, mostly Western, pressure.

She began wearing the wigs, along with paper bags over her face, in a symbolic effort, she said, to hide from Internet commenters and widespread attention.

Many analysts say that a revived Perot campaign this late in the election season would be a symbolic effort with only marginal electoral significance.

Putting the money toward such things will be more than a symbolic effort; despite its image, Ms. Greene said, Ridgewood really isn't an all-white enclave.

"This is a symbolic effort to stick it to the unions," Mr. Hiatt said of a group of four presidential orders affecting union prerogatives.

Will this be a single, symbolic effort, or the first step in establishing a coherent approach to Syria and the Middle East more generally?

Mr. Putin's visit to the grave — where he placed a bouquet of red roses — seemed to represent a highly symbolic effort to win the favor of the clubs.

Had she pursued the campaign, Mrs. Schroeder would have been the first woman from a major party to run for President since Representative Shirley Chisholm of Brooklyn sought the Democratic nomination in a largely symbolic effort in 1972.

The C.H.A. touted its plan as a socially symbolic effort, one that went beyond physical changes to the city's housing stock, writing that it "aims to build and strengthen communities by integrating public housing and its leaseholders into the larger social, economic and physical fabric of Chicago….

Kim does however appear to be following through on his promise to dismantle the Sohae Satellite Launching Station, but analysts believe this is a purely symbolic effort and that the launch pad could be reassembled in secret in a matter of months.