This marked the symbolic end of Bulgaria as an independent state, at least in Byzantine eyes.

In a symbolic end, fire spreads and engulfs the entire village.

The feeling reaches its greatest intensity on Labor Day weekend, the symbolic end of summer.

On the symbolic end, officials think they should be able to control property that the city clearly and legally owns.

She felt the small act of revenge was justified, and it put a symbolic end to her unhappy marriage.

In many ways, it also represented the symbolic end of the municipal fiscal crisis that began in 1975.

He is driving a domestic drama to a stylized, symbolic dead end.

In some sense the selection of elders served more symbolic and ideological, rather than pragmatic or political, ends.

Labor Day has come to be celebrated by most Americans as the symbolic end of the summer.

The Cavaliers led, 81-69 and that was the symbolic end for Detroit.