Sentence examples for symbolic statements from inspiring English sources

"What can be done are symbolic statements, a recognition of suffering, a recognition of what happened".

It's not, I don't believe, the ideal place for symbolic statements," Smith said.

Mr. Springsteen still reaches for big, symbolic statements and gets called on to make them.

"You'd have thought that whoever won this election would have seen some opportunity to make some symbolic statements about things being different".

People use their photos to make identity claims – symbolic statements to convey how they would like to be seen.

"I think we will need some symbolic statements between now and the next election that say to the people who voted Conservative at the last election... something that says to them, 'Actually we like the idea of a second-term majority Conservative government, we believe and have confidence that it would do the kind of things we want it to do.'".

But many will stick with her as a symbolic statement.

But the symbolic statement of forbidding entry, Justice Breyer said, was a momentous one.

City is not a one-man team, but stealing Tévez from United was a symbolic statement.

It is a nonbinding, symbolic statement that applies to all future Games.

They should not punish the president for who he is, just to make a symbolic statement.