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Then there are the symbolic gestures or emblematic gestures that have a meaning or provide a piece of information.
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The White House has made substantial symbolic gestures, but through Obama family members and appointees rather than the president himself.
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The Democrats are the party of using regulation to gain control of the American economy and the American people, and to make symbolic gestures.
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Myanmar's new government, ostensibly civilian but still stacked with military alumni from the old junta, offered more symbolic gestures to suggest a softer side.
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These symbolic gestures happen sort of instantaneously and intuitively.
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So when you come to symbolic gestures, there is much more variation because the gestures are more recent--at most only a couple of thousand years old and probably only a few hundred years old.
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But the two countries' focus on trade has also allowed symbolic gestures of greater mutual trust, such as the reopening in 2006 of an overland trading route through Sikkim that had been closed since the 1962 Sino-Indian war.
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Unfortunately, the fact that the Communists polled as well as they did in Sunday's balloting suggests that Putin will feel free, if not actually obliged, to go beyond rhetorical support and symbolic gestures towards these instruments of state power.
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Since succeeding Pope Benedict XVI, who resigned in February citing age and frailty, Pope Francis has used a series of carefully chosen words and symbolic gestures to signal what for many appear to be significant shifts in church priorities.
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