Sentence examples for apparent gesture from inspiring English sources

Qatar's foreign minister, in the forefront of opposition to Libya's Muammar Qaddafi, visited Mr Assad as an apparent gesture of support.

After Biden's visit, in December, eight Times journalists received new visas, but, in an apparent gesture of retaliation, other Times reporters did not.

In an apparent gesture of cooperation at the weekend, Putin ordered more than 17,000 Russian troops to pull back from positions near the border.

Several witnesses have stated publicly that Brown was shot fatally while fleeing Wilson and even while his hands were raised in an apparent gesture of surrender.

In an apparent gesture of support for the American diplomatic corps, President Obama — speaking at a diplomatic reception at the State Department on Wednesday night — praised the department's personnel, who he said often worked "at great risk".

That theme was repeated by another, less apparent gesture: no engineer or technician from Honda came along on my test drive, both a sign of confidence in the car's road-readiness and an indication of how normal it is.

"It is not fair to expect a society to accept the truths of other societies without having the chance to discuss them first".Turkey has restored a tenth-century Armenian church in an apparent goodwill gesture towards Armenia.

In an apparent goodwill gesture to Mr. McGreevey, who had chastised the acting governor and the Legislature for proposing expensive projects during the lame duck session, Mr. DiFrancesco also used his conditional veto to reduce the price tag of a $135 million dam renovation proposal to $7 million.

The Olympic committee scheduled a meeting for June 6 on genetic engineering only after the anti-doping agency announced plans for its own gathering in September, an apparent political gesture to appear out front on the issue, said Dr. Arne Ljunqvist of Sweden, who is an I.O.C. delegate and chairman of the anti-doping agency's medical, health and research committee.

An investigation began after a man was pictured making an apparent "monkey" gesture during the Premier League match on Saturday.

Much of this really was apparent; other gestures of great beauty were unexplained but riveting.