But, they say, it can be an important symbolic gesture.
If the sanctions were only a symbolic gesture, why hold this meeting?
These symbolic gestures were considered quite significant at the time.
And that's a very important symbolic gesture for the rest of the nation to see.
Reagan didn't even make any symbolic gestures toward the black community.
Break the glass, I thought to myself, because it's a symbolic gesture.
Such symbolic gestures were made also in 1975 and 1985.
These symbolic gestures are the right way to open up old wounds between people.
Let us hope that this is not just a symbolic gesture.
"It's a symbolic gesture to show that our two nations are still very close."