Despite this, he remains committed to the ideal symbolised by the well-thumbed paperback in his pocket.
That deal, completed in 2006, symbolised corporate India's triumphant emergence on the global stage.
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The official news agency, Xinhua, said these symbolised good wishes from China's 56 officially recognised ethnic groups.
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Currencies that once symbolised national power are now curious relics of the past.
Their success is symbolised by their conquest, this time, of Sheffield council and their retention of control in Liverpool.
Few men so symbolised an era of cautious negotiation, rather than bold intervention.
Mr Brown is particularly good on the battle of ideas, symbolised by the construction of two of the capital's landmarks.
ICI, the company that once symbolised British industry, became the target of a takeover bid from Akzo Nobel, a Dutch competitor.
And yet it is hard to look at the process that is symbolised by the forthcoming conventions without a feeling of unease.
Harry Reid told the programme there was a feeling amongst some that the incident "symbolised a society that was beginning to break up".
The French no campaign harped on the fear that living standards would be undermined by competition from the east (famously symbolised by Polish plumbers).
However, Ms Wallace also criticised charities who use firms that employ street fundraisers, arguing they symbolised "all that is wrong in the commercialisation of charity".
The country's remarkable modernisation drive was symbolised, nine years ago, by the completion of the Petronas twin towers, in Kuala Lumpur, then the world's tallest buildings.
To serious-minded 17th Century men and women, the ephemeral bloom of the gorgeous tulip, and the high price attached to it, symbolised the moral dilemma of conspicuous spending.
But Mr Wake-Walker said Grace Darling symbolised everything RNLI crews stood for during the charity's 175 years in existence, "risking her own life to save others, selflessness and courage".
The Queen Mother was a person who symbolised service... she sustained this country and the royal family when King Edward VIII was forced to abdicate over his relationship with twice-married Wallis Simpson.
More recently, the Oslo peace process gave the embryonic political institutions of the embryonic Palestine a powerful foothold in the city, symbolised by the transformation of Orient House, a former hotel, into a cross between a town hall and an embassy.
After the popular rejection of the proposed EU constitution in France and the Netherlands, the acrimonious break-up of budget talks in June, and multiple setbacks to economic reform (symbolised by the German election result), most European leaders were anxious for any budget settlement.
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While the middle finger may historically have symbolised a phallus, it has lost that distinctive meaning and is no longer even obscene, says Ira Robbins, a law professor at American University in Washington DC, who has studied the gesture's place in criminal jurisprudence.
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