Sentence examples for symbolic position from inspiring English sources
It was the prime minister who was responsible for selecting the cabinet; the presidency was only a symbolic position.
But now she occupies a different symbolic position, one no longer quite as helpful to her leader.
A former math geek, Mr. Posen, now 22, occupies an important symbolic position in the fashion system one hears so much about.
"Utah has a particularly symbolic position in the history of the struggle of same sex couples to be able to marry," Davidson said.
"It's a symbolic position — the envoy isn't the head of the region — but as far as his status is concerned, he is the most important person in the Urals," said Leonid Volkov, an opposition leader in Yekaterinburg.
Her strong response was likely more a symbolic position than a political act with practical outcomes, and some interpreted it as nothing more than a way of boosting her popularity for the presidential election next year.
The Brexit "divorce bill" should have been a non-issue, but this government is locked into symbolic positions over big-sounding figures because that's all it's got.
Whilst a few economists and intellectuals have been awarded largely symbolic positions, true power has been carved up by the president's family and members of his Alawi clan.
Ideological discourse serves to instil the notion of destiny and to ensure cohesion within a population frightened about everything it might lose, from salaries and jobs to symbolic positions in the realms of race, gender, and sexual orientation.
The idea of the design is to transform the warehouse floorplan into a grid, in which virtual order center and batch center are defined to represent symbolic positions of orders and batches of the solution, respectively.
Are their voices really included?" Similar questions have been raised regarding the participation of women in the high peace council set up by the Afghan government to negotiate with the Taliban: women hold just nine seats on the 79-member council, and women's rights activists say these are largely symbolic positions.
