With relations with Moscow at a post-Cold War low, the Russian statement looked more like a bit of mischief-making than a real gesture of intent.
Sometimes having long hair is a symbol of confidence, and sometimes when they cut off their hair, it's done as a real gesture of getting down to business".
With Obama commuting the sentences of several life-without-parole inmates last month — a small fraction of the estimated total, but still, a real gesture — both parties seem up for questioning current drug policy in the year to come. 5.
Even if, through good fortune, nobody is seriously hurt, why should French cities have to accept the consequences of English thuggery?The second reason to contemplate English withdrawal is to make a real gesture of national contrition.
It was the first major piece of legislation passed by the new Parliament and the first real gesture by the new government to reverse injustices suffered by Albanians from Kosovo under Slobodan Milosevic.
Replacing rhetoric with the very real gesture of selling a number of safe civilian airliners would show that Obama is serious when he says he wants to improve ties to the Iranian people.
This was the real gesture strategy: in July 1914, Britain's economic strength, resting as it did on free trade and British neutrality, depended on stable international order, and so its economy was no more ready for war than anybody else's.
Among the final four stories, only the last one — "Funny Boy," about a young AIDS patient returning home to intolerant Clanton from San Francisco to die — contains any real gesture toward the human condition; and this tale is diverting chiefly for its sentimentality.
He added: "I think the vast majority of unionists will be pleased this happened because they know it was essentially a real gesture towards their sense of identity and their sense of allegiance".
