It was a wrench to surrender the Deutschmark, symbol of post-war recovery and economic success.
In 1978 Playboy magazine called Ms. Fawcett "the first mass visual symbol of post-neurotic fresh-air sexuality".
In a grim symbol of post-industrial Britain's race to the bottom, the plant is built on the site of the former Shirebrook colliery, which closed in the early 1990s.
This would have many important consequences beyond the most obvious – that the US, the symbol of post-second world war democracy and western capitalist beliefs, is no longer the world's biggest economy.
When will French MEPs realize that a lofty belief in the value of Strasbourg as the "symbol" of post-war European reconciliation will only help to weaken the European parliament itself, the fledgling home of EU democracy.
Etzel became a symbol of post-World War I German youth by rejecting the authority of the past and finding his own truth by trial-and-error, doggedly following elusive clues.
By the 1950s the embrace of abstraction was nearly universal: it became a symbol of post-war freedom, the opposite of the treacly folk art favoured by the Nazis.
Crédit Mobilier Scandal, in U.S. history, illegal manipulation of contracts by a construction and finance company associated with the building of the Union Pacific Railroad (1865 69); the incident established Crédit Mobilier of America as a symbol of post-Civil War corruption.
This site, the very symbol of post-war British industry with its dramatic floodlit skyline by the Tees, was the beating heart of the company, taking in oil and gas, brewing up and piping out the potions that supplied other ICI factories around the country.
When in 1999 Germany committed itself to surrendering its beloved D-mark, the symbol of post-war stability, in favour of a new European currency that now embraces 12 out of the EU's 15 members, there was much talk about Frankfurt ousting the City of London as Europe's financial hub (Britain having stayed out of the project).
That is, to have a good job, a house with a white picket fence, a car, and 2.4 children that became a symbol of post-war America.
