But the 75-year-old ayatollah has become so powerful that the council's supervisory role has diminished to a symbolic one despite members still being elected in public votes.
He said the move was of "really symbolic importance because it says homosexual acts should never have been a crime in the first place".
Art historian Claudia Kinmonth points out that the boy "listening attentively in the centre wears green, a colour symbolic of Fenianism".
The top floor of the Willis Tower, at 1,354 ft, is higher than the One World Trade Center's top floor at 1,268 ft. The debate was particularly charged because of the symbolic nature of the metal structure on One World Trade Center.
The Viceroy's House (now the president's residence) was built at an elevation so it would look upon the old fort and establish a symbolic connection.
Although the control tower collapsed last week and the terminals and runways have been severely damaged by shelling, the airport holds great symbolic and strategic importance for both sides.
The images move from the everyday sublime to the symbolic, and are threaded through with a wealth of found material.
"The choice is symbolic: the Likud led by me, that will continue to stand firmly for [Israel's] vital interests, compared with a leftwing government... ready to accept any dictate," he told residents.
Within this, symbolic landmarks like the Drum and Bell towers (of which only the Drum Tower survives), multi-tiered and symmetrically positioned, loomed over a predominantly flat landscape.
In Amsterdam we started by occupying symbolic university buildings, organising public rallies and taking to the streets en masse.
Could this be his way of signalling to the ideological right that proposed constitutional change, should it come, will be moderate, largely symbolic and absent of guarantees against future racial discrimination?
