Sentence examples for substantive gesture from inspiring English sources

In its first substantive gesture, last month it released 85 members of the party who had been imprisoned during the last year.

A3 President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan said he was waiting for more substantive gestures from New Delhi.

Those who hoped for substantive gestures towards disarmament will be left just as disappointed as those who had hoped that a 2010 US-Russia agreement on limiting the number of deployed nuclear warheads would be followed by further efforts.

As Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld arrived in India, President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan said today that he was still waiting for more substantive gestures from New Delhi to ease the two nations' military confrontation.

But with European help, the mutual gestures toward substantive engagement seem to be getting more real with each passing day.

In light of that problematic history, the removal of Hulk Hogan from WWE's web site and Hall of Fame is more of a public relations gesture than a substantive stand against bigotry.

It has yet to be determined whether this symbolic gesture will translate into substantive improvement in Pakistan-India relations.

In the 72 hours since he was elected to lead New York City, Michael R. Bloomberg has made numerous gestures -- both symbolic and substantive -- that appear to demonstrate he is not the man whose coattails he rode into office.

"If you really want to make change, you've got to make substantive efforts -- you can't just do a gesture," he said.

Saudi Arabia, by all accounts the central player in developing a consensus among Arab countries, appears utterly unmoved by the American argument that "confidence-building" gestures can open the door to more substantive negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.

Long Kayhan's primary editorial writer, he kept silent for weeks as Iran's new president, Hassan Rouhani, and his diplomatic team made a series of statements and gestures indicating their willingness to engage in substantive negotiations with the United States and its western allies.