"It has historic value, it has symbolic value, and it has financial value, " he said.
The building is such an assertive composition that its symbolic value is fully apparent from outside.
While UN recognition would have largely symbolic value, the Palestinians argue it would strengthen their hand in peace talks.
Although the sums of money involved in the Lew and Geithner cases are small, they are of enormous symbolic value.
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Perhaps no other issue in the Middle East packs as much symbolic value as this one, and holds as much potential to be a catalyst for profound change.
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While UN recognition would have largely symbolic value, the Palestinians argue that it would strengthen their hands in peace talks with Israel, especially on the final status issues that divide them.
Art-works have much more symbolic value than material value.
We don't know yet how the US wants to transfer the men, whether on one flight - which would have enormous symbolic value to British ministers - or separately and with no fanfare.
"The traditional split between left and right has historic and symbolic value, " he said, "but does not highlight the real alliance that Italy needs - one that focuses on Europe, and on reforms".
But it remains true that the symbolic value of sanctions is lost if America's policy is criticised by its own allies, and their economic impact is lost if other countries do the deals that America withdraws from.
For South Korea, it has far more symbolic than economic value.
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He has proposed cutting billions of euros from the European Commission's proposed expansion of its favoured infrastructure projects and much smaller cuts - designed for their symbolic as much as their financial value - to the costs of the Brussels administration.
Yet the true value of Sebastopol to the Russians is symbolic.
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