But, they say, it can be an important symbolic gesture.
If the sanctions were only a symbolic gesture, why hold this meeting?
These symbolic gestures were considered quite significant at the time.
And that's a very important symbolic gesture for the rest of the nation to see.
Reagan didn't even make any symbolic gestures toward the black community.
Break the glass, I thought to myself, because it's a symbolic gesture.
Such symbolic gestures were made also in 1975 and 1985.
These symbolic gestures are the right way to open up old wounds between people.
Let us hope that this is not just a symbolic gesture.
"It's a symbolic gesture to show that our two nations are still very close."
This amount is still paid today, although as a token gesture.
This was, though, only in a small section of the ground and appeared to be a token gesture.
After all the rises, this is at best a token gesture.
Even where progress has been more or less a token gesture, it is the result of a long, hard struggle.
They said the recent steps have gone beyond token gestures.
She held out her hand to him, but they both knew it was a token gesture.
A token gesture by a System that suddenly wasn't working any longer.
She even went to the trouble to feel my forehead, a more token gesture than could be believed.
There must also be no more token gestures of a certain kind.
"But it's time for the governor to move beyond token gestures."