"As far as I understand," says Twitter-user Arina "the white ribbon is a symbol of revolution, whether it's white, snow-white or anything else.
The notional meeting, which is to be held between the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat and Shimon Peres, the Israeli foreign minister, has become a symbol of such progress, whether or not it would supply any in substance.
Paul O'Neill, who led the Yankees with a.333 batting average in this Series, remained in many ways the symbol of the Yankees who, whether they liked it or not, whether it truly applied or not, came to symbolize for multitudes the grit of the city as it attempted to pull itself up from of the unspeakable attack on Sept. 11.
On the global stage, Clinton's scrunchies become a symbol of who she is, whether she likes it or not.
Everyone had a favourite symbol of Yanukovych's excess, whether it was the faux galleon on the waterfront, the covered tennis courts or the collection of exotic animals.
Beyond the numbers, it is the banality of injustice, the now predictable playing out of 21st Century convention – the swift killing, the shaming of the victim rather than inquiry into the shooter, the kitchen-table protest signs, twitter handles and spontaneous symbols of grievance, whether hoodies or Skittles or hands in the air, the spectacle of death by skin color.
Car-industry watchers wonder whether this symbol of Italian industrial muscle will remain under Italian control.Even privatisation, which started only in the early 1990s, has often been a half-cock affair.
When the film, for which dozens of actresses were interviewed, was released, Winger was taken aback to learn it had been retitled "Searching for Debra Winger," and she found herself turned into a symbol — whether of the paucity of good roles for women or of the possibility that one can always opt out, it almost didn't matter.
The decision to bring extremism strategy into the Home Office is already policy - and it is about more than rearranging the machinery of government: It's a symbol of the tensions inside Whitehall over whether every previous attempt to combat extremism has been a muddled flop.
"We're back to the whole issue of what is English culture," she says, "and whether Shakespeare is a symbol of that or something more.
