Other mooted name changes are designed to send a political message to a foreign power.
Heather McGill, a researcher at Amnesty International, said: "This whole trial was designed to send a message.
Nicholas Bequelin, senior Asia researcher with Human Rights Watch, said: "This is a carefully crafted political sentence designed to send a message.
"An attack like this may be designed to send a message and do violence to his reputation," said Roderic Broadhurst, a professor and criminology expert at Australian National University.
9/11 was an (unprecedentedly bloody) act of political terrorism, perpetrated by a politically-motivated criminal gang and designed to send a political message.
Peter Felstead, the editor of IHS Jane's Defense Weekly, said the military's openness about its weapons plans was designed to send a message to potential attackers.
Once you slip an iPhone, iPad or Touch in there, you can project from any app that's designed to send a video output signal.
The rally seemed designed to send a message across the Line of Control: Musharraf is gone, but the Kashmir war is alive.
It's a clumsy portmanteau of short films, with directors ranging from Natalie Portman to Brett Ratner, designed to send a collective valentine to the city.
