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The greetings performed at the Irish president's official residence did everything that was expected of them, sending a clear message: Britain and Ireland have reached out, and symbolically joined hands, and neither enjoys seniority in this newly affirmed relationship.
There is something symbolically apt, for example, about the way the grotesque figure of the dead paedophile, Father Brendan Smyth, has returned to threaten the position of the head of the Irish church, Cardinal Sean Brady.
These maps of Africa, drawn up by a small group of western cartographers, symbolically reinforced Europeans' sense of control over their mapped territories and subjects, but they didn't betray much in the way of real information.
He goes on to say: "In destroying her husband's life, she's symbolically taking back power for women everywhere".
Symbolically, then, a second Clinton presidency would have much to recommend it – although this does need to be weighed against what it would indicate about the narrowing of the American political class.
However, the passion demonstrated by the protesters before things turned nasty illustrates how important the union flag and Belfast's city hall continue to be, symbolically linking the rest of the UnK to swaths of unionists and loyalists in Northern Ireland.
The gravity of Keating's speech lies in its unambiguous acknowledgment that past crimes are inextricably – practically, emotionally, symbolically – linked to present Indigenous disadvantage.
We are occupying the main administrative meeting room to symbolically disrupt the management of the school, which is responsible for the neoliberalisation of our education.
The sight of the notorious hooligan Ivan Bogdanov in the crowd seemed symbolically significant of a lack of desire or ability among the Serbian authorities to police the game and a reminder of the close links between Belgrade's ultras and Arkan's murderous rampage across the region in the late 90s properly.
There have been legal reparations, insufficient of course, but symbolically incisive.
Meeting symbolically in Maastricht, the bank left rates unchanged, at 3.25%.
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How to useAs an adverb, "symbolically" modifies verbs, adjectives, or entire clauses to indicate that an action or state is a representation of something else. According to Ludwig, it often precedes adjectives like "important" or "significant" to qualify the nature of that importance.
Expression frequency: Very common
