Sentence examples for have symbolised from inspiring English sources

A victory in the referendum would have symbolised Clegg's strength in the Coalition, defeating the mighty Cameron and Osborne.

For eight years, the faces of Zyed Benna, 17, and Bouna Traoré, 15, have symbolised the dire relations and mistrust between police and youths in French tower blocks.

Mr Abe's "proactive pacifism" will make Japan America's proxy army, say the hibakusha, pulling the nation away from the anti-war ideals that survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have symbolised since 1945.

For nearly half a century, the barricades that cut across Ledra Street, in the heart of Cyprus's capital city of Nicosia, have symbolised the ethnic division of the island.

More recent releases have symbolised an unstoppable ascent up his own arse: last year he knocked out an internet release called NEWS: four tracks, entitled North, East, West and South, each of which lasted precisely 14 minutes.

The maritime imagery probably symbolised the power of a ruler of an island-kingdom, and the equestrian imagery appears to have symbolised feudal society, in which the cult of knighthood had reached its peak in the twelfth- and early thirteenth centuries.

The tanks that had symbolised the start of the coup now signalled its demise.

Historically, the heavyweight champion of the world has symbolised something bigger than boxing.

Laura kicks off the single wedge shoe that, up to now, has symbolised her disability.

The bridge that had symbolised the start of the coup now signalled its demise.

This self-consciously gloomy youth adopts a pose that has symbolised melancholy since the early middle ages.