In the early 1990s, an array of such symbolic political issues brought attention to the state's role in religious or quasireligious activities.

But it concerns complaints over rights to the music, the division of revenues and even symbolic issues like billing.

For Buchanan, the symbolic economic issue is a revival of high tariffs on manufactured imports.

This has become a symbolic issue denoting fundamental attitudes about science and progress.

When it wasn't obsessing about itself, Congress was preoccupied with gestural, symbolic issues.

Those complaints may be subject to honest debate, but they are symbolic issues that have little to do with effective policing.

No wonder, either, given that, in fact, it concerns real increases and cuts but also - as always in politics - symbolic issues.

Mr President, we have two symbolic issues before us this evening.

Rather, it is the intensity of the emotions and the symbolic issues underlying the relationships among the three generations.

The symbolic issue about a fight over water is only a vehicle in which the film clearly demonstrates how Hispanics have been exploited throughout history.