The gesture marks the latest effort by the Pope to promote the rights and welfare of the poor.
In A Lean Towards the Light, William Wordsworth eats his porridge with honey rather than sugar, a small gesture marking his opposition to the slave trade.
But Brandt's remarkable gesture marked the beginning of an historical honesty which provides a cornerstone for the stable, peaceful Germany that we now know.
This gesture marked the end of a detailed investigation, which they reported in three special issues of Ji Yi (Remembrance), an email-only journal.
When he told her it was "What a Wonderful World," she said, she immediately looked upon it as a thoughtful gesture marking the fourth anniversary of her father's death, which was the next day.
The gesture marked his public service as a savior of the city while deputy mayor under Mayor Abraham D. Beame during the 1970s fiscal crisis, and as a vigorous cheerleader for downtown's revival after the terrorist attacks.
In 1864 Britain ceded the islands to Greece as a gesture marking the accession of a new Greek king, George I (the former Prince William George of Glücksburg), son of Christian IX of Denmark.
"He wasn't ready!" Mr. Quinn's final gesture marked the last, awful moments in an experiment that ethicists say raises serious questions about the participation of dying patients in medical research.
The porcelain girl has been in my possession since 2000, when my grandmother Eunice gave the figurine to me in what seemed, then, a symbolic gesture, marking my passage into womanhood.
In September 2005, British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced the commitment of £10 million for the development of academic links between India and the U.K. The gesture marked the beginnings of the U.K.-India EdUKIERI --ad Research Initiative (UKIERI --a belated but welcome attempt to reverse the slow erosion in academic exchange between the two countries over the past 2 decades.
