Sentence examples for symbolic demonstration from inspiring English sources

President Obama's decision on Wednesday to dismiss the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service was a largely symbolic demonstration of anger and authority.

Ms. Park on Thursday referred to the launching as "a symbolic demonstration of how serious a challenge we face in national security".

On Thursday, more than 200 protesters buried their heads in the sand at Bondi Beach in a symbolic demonstration over climate change inaction.

Finally, then, in symbolic demonstration of disgust at the persistence of pernicious political attitudes in Germany he relinquished his German citizenship, and, having earlier moved across the border to University of Basel, he became a Swiss national.

Although it began in 2007 as a single World Wildlife Fund event in Sydney, the symbolic demonstration, which is meant to raise awareness about the need to conserve energy, has grown.

The argument concerned who should invest a new bishop with his staff and ring: traditionally, this had been carried out by the king in a symbolic demonstration of royal power, but Pope Urban II had condemned this practice in 1099, arguing that only the papacy could carry out this task, and declaring that the clergy should not give homage to their local temporal rulers.

In a policy environment in which both his Coalition progeny and the contemporary Labor party have abandoned humanitarian obligations, UN commitments and the rule of law to engage cruel symbolic demonstrations of xenophobia to the world's most vulnerable people, Fraser stood alongside progressive organisations like GetUp! and the Greens in a chorus of moral condemnation.

It was a symbolic, highly impressive demonstration of the power City manager Manuel Pellegrini has at his disposal, made even more emphatic as it was produced against a Liverpool side that had the title in their grasp in late April only to stumble near the finishing line.

A local environment campaign to save a park at Istanbul's main Taksim square, the symbolic heart of demonstrations, swelled from Friday into a general protest against Erdogan's government.

Istanbul's anti-government protesters have inhaled tear gas and faced water cannon, but they are still laughing all the way to Gezi Park, the symbolic centre of the demonstrations, which have now spread to at least 60 cities across the country.

MOSCOW — Forcing a showdown with the government of President Vladimir V. Putin, leaders of the Russian political opposition took to the streets on Saturday afternoon for an unsanctioned demonstration in a symbolic square in Moscow that is home to the headquarters of the federal security services as well as a monument to victims of Soviet political repression.