Sentence examples for expensive symbol from inspiring English sources

We do not need or want incineration plants (even though one is being built nearby) which are an expensive symbol of failure.

A third provision would further extend a ban on transfers from Guantánamo, ensuring that this morally and financially expensive symbol of detainee abuse will remain open well into the future.

These were expensive symbols of the high life.

The "great ship" he loves to cite is a nationalist fantasy, a remnant of Britain's persistent post-imperial confusion about its proper place in the world, hanging on to expensive symbols like a nuclear deterrent while its once glorious navy is often incapable of patrolling its own coastline.

Thank goodness because I'm sure the bride and groom's destination wedding would have been destroyed for them regardless of how lovely everything else was if they'd lost the very expensive symbols of the eternal commitment they were about to make to each other.

Norman Baker, Liberal Democrat transport spokesman, welcomed the decision to scrap an "expensive status symbol".

And despite Mumbai politicians' penchant for building new flyovers, the sheer crowdedness of street life and poor state of the roads are surely a disincentive to owning an expensive "status symbol" car.

Its pieces reflect style, with the idea of turning the watch from a single, enormously expensive status symbol to a luxury accessory.

EAS, New York Well, hey, I have a solution: don't buy those ridiculously expensive status-symbol strollers!

"I didn't know if I wanted to even implicitly endorse a show about rich people's expensive status symbols," he said.

"I make no apologies to those who think these expensive public symbols are out of place where people are in poverty.