It's simpler to make hollow gestures toward a noble goal of diversifying the workplace.

And unless there is sustained support from civic, environmental and political leaders, our opposition will be a hollow gesture.

But the limit as it had been enforced was an empty gesture, hollow and pretentious.

"The decertification program now is arbitrary; it's an absolutely hollow gesture."

I have thanked Parliament extensively, but these are not hollow gestures, believe me.

A ban on arms exports to Serbia is in fact one of those useless hollow gestures.

I am convinced that the invitation was not a hollow gesture but an attempt to reach out in friendship to Jews.

But the Americans say that is a hollow gesture.

But Palestinian officials dismissed the move as a hollow gesture.

Every now and then, a hollow gesture actually does come back to haunt a politician.