Sentence examples for mere symbolic from inspiring English sources

Mr. Bush's opponents assert that his overtures to the middle are mere symbolic gestures.

Mike Huckabee dismissed Mr. Obama, the first black candidate of any major party, as a mere "symbolic" choice for president.

She was far from a mere symbolic prop in the imperial drama, said Miles Taylor, the director of the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London and author of the forthcoming book "Empress: Queen Victoria and India".

Support from the U.N. Security Council for any American attack is essential, and Mr. Bush's speech next week should be a start along that road, not a mere symbolic stab at consultation.

Adding the ERA to our Constitution is not a mere symbolic gesture.

To understand groups beyond the level of mere symbolic manipulations as above, more structural concepts have to be employed.

But this is not mere powerless, symbolic protest of a great wrong.

Nor would these scholars allow refusals of wedding-related services on religious grounds when same-sex couples might suffer "substantial hardship," though not "mere inconvenience or symbolic harm," because similar services or accommodations were unavailable from others.

Several researchers assume that the mere presentation of symbolic numbers automatically activates corresponding mental representations of magnitude in humans (Girelli, Lucangeli, & Butterworth, 2000; Tzelgov & Ganor-Stern, 2005).

Recent studies based on this new approach have found evidence for the argument that the mere presentation of symbolic numbers does not automatically activate their magnitude representations (e.g., Defever, Sasanguie, Vandewaetere, & Reynvoet, 2012; Garcia-Orza, Perea, Abu Mallouh, & Carreiras, 2012; Lyons, Beilock, & Ansari, 2012).

Beyond mere aesthetic or practical functions, symbolic significance may impact which bridges become suicide hotspots over other convenient locations.