Sentence examples for symbolic motion from inspiring English sources

This largely symbolic motion, which passed, was designed to preempt a more extreme one planned by the separatist Bloc Québécois.

In 2006, the House of Commons passed a symbolic motion moved by Stephen Harper, the prime minister, declaring "that this House recognise that the Québécois form a nation within a united Canada".

Academics at the University of Oxford passed a symbolic motion of no confidence in Universities Minister David Willetts and his higher education funding reforms.

The symbolic motion, which echoes similar votes last month in Britain and Ireland, was backed by all the political groupings in the lower house after the ruling People's Party PPP) watered down the wording hours after an attack in Jerusalem.

Although the advancement of the resolution may have been a symbolic motion for some Republicans, the heated reaction to Haspel's briefing indicates that some Republicans might be willing to join their Democratic colleagues in passing the legislation later this week.

The lower house of the French parliament passed the symbolic motion, which urges France's socialist government to "recognize the Palestinian state, in order to bring about a definitive resolution of the conflict," between Palestinians and Israelis.

The British, Irish and Spanish parliaments have passed symbolic motions urging their governments to consider a similar move, and France will debate the question this week.

Book Two provides many examples of magic squares, with associated symbolic motions, for each of the major celestial bodies.

A string of local authorities have passed "symbolic" motions in recent months calling for FOBTs to be banned, he said.

Turnbull faced an early embarrassment on Tuesday after three Nationals senators crossed the floor to support a symbolic Greens motion advocating changes to competition laws, and two others abstained from the vote.

In a grim detail that makes her riding accident seem like a symbolic fall, Motion notes that she liked to leave her helmet's chin strap loose because to fasten it was "infra dig".