Goldmanites feel their firm has been unfairly singled out as a symbol of greed.

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Yet this corner of France stands out as a symbol of mutual respect, a message that France is now keen to send across the Atlantic.

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She set out to make him the symbol of all that was worthwhile in design.

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The fact that his committee was meeting in the Senedd, taking evidence from AMs, was a symbol, he thought out loud, of what co-operation could achieve for the Welsh economy, "of what is possible".

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But the symbol of Germany as a stable economic power extends out of politics, and is further illustrated by their domestic soccer league, the Bundesliga.

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Big, blocky, black, with painted-out windows, it looks more like a police mortuary van than a symbol of hope arriving on your street.

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