But it was really a symbolic gesture calculated to boost the budget's unabashedly political appeal.
But perhaps only within the Obama Administration can a symbolic gesture by the IAEA be considered a diplomatic triumph.
Alone, California can only make a symbolic gesture and would unfortunately bear a disproportionate share of the economic disruption.
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Mr Cowen was the first Irish foreign minister to visit Sinn Fein headquarters - but it was more than a symbolic gesture.
This didn't occur overnight and (is), in a way, a symbolic gesture.
Mr Rehman said that the ritual of walking across the border was a symbolic gesture to promote the concept of people-to-people contact.
The pin was a symbolic gesture, another step toward being given real authority to protect the sea, but the praise seemed to make him uncomfortable.
Extending Mr. Rifi's term would be a symbolic gesture to ease the fears of Sunnis in Lebanon and keep their grip on the internal security apparatus.
This was more than a symbolic gesture: as a stable, relatively prosperous democracy, Costa Rica has attracted hordes of Nicaraguan migrants over the past two decades.
This is not just a symbolic gesture, but an essential one which expresses my vision of the regional policy and the basis of our regional future...
In a symbolic gesture, new Chief Jim Cantalupo exiled from the Oak Brook, Illinois home office the headquarters staff overseeing non-Mac operations, resettling them down the road.
"But to say to a retired employee that we're going to give you fewer roles, it's a symbolic gesture and a pretty hollow one at that, " Clohessy said.
Instead of washing priests' feet in a symbolic gesture of humility on Holy Thursday, Francis will wash the feet of young inmates at a juvenile detention center in Rome.
And if anywhere along your schedule you have the opportunity, as a symbolic gesture of support, to stop in to those stations, thank those firefighters, we would greatly appreciate that.
Doing so, however, would be little more than a symbolic gesture, as the proposals have virtually no chance of winning the 60 votes almost certainly needed to clear the 100-member chamber.
Strategically, the Mets presented their third baseman with a jersey and a cap that is usually a symbolic gesture for a ball player who is officially joining a new ball club for the first time.
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Keeping Mr. Rifi in office for a longer period would have been a symbolic gesture to ease the fears of Sunnis in Lebanon and allow them to keep their grip on the internal security apparatus.
In a symbolic gesture, the commission's opening session was held in the same Senate hearing room used by the Truman Committee, believed to have recovered billions of taxpayer dollars by investigating military profiteering during World War II.
Independent fact checkers have said that offshore drilling will have no short-term, and little long-term, impact on gas prices, but McCain has said it would be useful as a symbolic gesture to signal U.S. resolve not to be dependent on foreign oil.
As a symbolic gesture to the public, the venue is marking the changeover with a free concert on Thursday that will include acts from Broadway shows ("Chicago, " "Avenue Q, " "Phantom"), plus the New York City Gay Men's Chorus, the Town Hall Broadway's Rising Stars Chorus, and others.
Two Democratic leadership sources told CNN they did it as a "symbolic gesture" to show Republicans they are listening to their objections.
Two Democratic leadership sources told CNN on Monday that the Democrats dropped the programs as a "symbolic gesture" to show Republicans they are listening to their objections.
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