But for some, the game served as a symbolic victory.

President Reagan won a symbolic victory after a substantial defeat.

The results were nonetheless a symbolic victory for the opposition.

Doing that, of course, would have meant a symbolic victory for Fidel.

Democrats saw today's vote, even if it is later reversed, as an important symbolic victory.

For their part, the Republican dissidents won at least a symbolic victory.

He had a symbolic victory to which they could point: See?

The officials pushed hard to add some substance to the symbolic victory of the meeting.

Certainly, it was a symbolic victory over the more respected big brother.

In a legal sense, too, such trials will hand the terrorists an important symbolic victory.