The circles also assert a palpable symbolic import.

Freighted with symbolic import and subject to political pressures, access to archives is a barometer of any government's commitment to transparency.

Instead, in an act of great symbolic import, I picked up the remote and shut off the Sox game.

But the dispute does have symbolic and political import.

The incident would acquire symbolic import in Heart of Darkness (1899).

The symbolic import of the Senate votes was also open to interpretation.

That is, Europeans also took fire indoors and gave it symbolic import.

But it nonetheless would have significant symbolic import.

So Mr. Clinton's order has more symbolic import than practical effect.

This year, the highly designed (some might say tortured) physical imagery deployed by both parties has assumed weighty symbolic import.