Sentence examples for official gestures from inspiring English sources

While this week's official gestures towards the Catholic church were striking, they are unlikely to mark any lasting relaxation of what Nicolas Sarkozy, head of the governing UMP party, calls France's "secular fundamentalism".For the real source of tension about religious expression and public life today is not Catholicism but Islam.

Their presence as official gestures, however, indicates that Apple might be looking to make them more easily accessible to developers and more widely used throughout the OS.

In this context, British administrations have shied away from official gestures of colonial atonement.

Of course it also might help machine intelligence keep up with the official gesture of 2017 — the facepalm.

This dataset exploits the official gesture vocabulary for the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier environment, which defines a variety of body-and-hand signals that that carrier flight deck personnel use to communicate with the US Navy pilots.

The intelligence officials gestured toward a plastic bag.

The Armory Show does make one official topical gesture, though a half-hearted one, by presenting a sappy piece by the New York artist Victor Mathew to honor the victims of Sept. 11.

As he did on both earlier occasions, Mr. Abe instead sent a traditional offering signed in the name of the prime minister but paid out of his own pocket, in an apparent effort to appease his supporters without making too official a gesture or actually visiting.

But American officials describe such gestures as too little, too late.Most Lebanese have long suspected their neighbour over the Hariri killing and other crimes.

A campaign official said the gesture was meant as a general reaction to the onlookers on the sidewalk, not the woman in particular.

The Israeli government also sent a New Year's message to the Iranian people on Friday, although administration officials and Israeli officials insisted that the gestures were not part of a coordinated plan.