Sentence examples for unusual gesture from inspiring English sources

It was an unusual gesture.

The meeting was an unusual gesture from Mr. Brauchli.

Across the aisle, in an extremely unusual gesture, Democratic Senators stood and applauded.

On Wednesday, the government took the unusual gesture of not imposing a curfew in the capital.

Here, Mathers quickly establishes each personality with an unusual gesture or two.

In an unusual gesture, the campaign scrambled to offer the group seats by displacing other audience members.

CAIRO — The government of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria offered several unusual gestures on Wednesday intended to earn it good will among Sunnis and Kurds.

Commissioners offered unusual gestures of acknowledgement such as rising when the witnesses entered the courtroom, visiting the sites of atrocities, and participating in public reburials (for more detail see Kiss 2000: 73).

Differences in communication may be present from the first year of life, and may include delayed onset of babbling, unusual gestures, diminished responsiveness, and vocal patterns that are not synchronized with the caregiver.

It was still an unusual and welcome gesture from the Pope to recognise that everyone, regardless of beliefs, can do good and 'be saved' — at least it was a step up from what we're used to hearing".

After victory in the final he was presented with the trophy on the pitch and lifted it triumphantly above his head – an unusual and expansive gesture for the times, and one that was to be much copied in subsequent years by other captains.