But they also police the crowd to keep such symbolic protest from spinning out of control.

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Recent demonstrations in Port Said and nearby cities along the Suez Canal are symbolic because that region was among the first where the Mubarak regime lost control during the 2011 unrest leading to revolution, analysts said.

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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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