Sentence examples for symbolic choice from inspiring English sources

At this post-modern stage, nationality can even be a symbolic choice for a star athlete.

I would urge the president-elect to reconsider this very symbolic choice.

Mike Huckabee dismissed Mr. Obama, the first black candidate of any major party, as a mere "symbolic" choice for president.

It's also a World Cup year with South Africa a symbolic choice, if no guarantee of being an organizational success.

Right now, however, people who raise the do-not-track flag are making a mostly symbolic choice, having their browsers send out a preference signal.

Algeria, widely known for its legendary fight against colonialism and its commitment to self-determination, was a sound, symbolic choice for hosting a gathering of populist anti-interventionists.

The Victory Day parade has always presented the Kremlin with a battery of symbolic choices.

Against the cold and high wind, they wore old woolen caps and weathered team jackets, symbolic choices outside a stadium that is new and shiny.

The Argentinian pontiff, 77, has dramatically altered the style of the papacy, making a series of symbolic choices that have solidified his persona as a plain-living, down-to-earth and genial head of the Catholic church.

Style – namely, the aesthetic and symbolic choices a company makes regarding its products, their main features and how they are combined – is increasingly influencing the innovation strategies of firms.

(And yes, that's a winceably symbolic career choice.) Watching these four diverse souls butting ideologies in the first act is a sophisticated treat, a contemporary answer to the smart, probing talk of the plays of the S. N. Behrmans and Robert Sherwoods of decades ago.