Most publishers said they found the resolution important but largely symbolic.

Confronting failure in middle age - the subject of many of these stories - doesn't easily lend itself to broadly symbolic resolutions.

Also, governing bodies in a number of communities have passed symbolic resolutions against the act.

The largely symbolic resolution passed with no debate after brief discussion on Thursday.

But for all the attention paid to the symbolic resolution, it remains an open question whether it will have much immediate effect.

Last month House Democrats passed a symbolic resolution opposing the administration's plan to send more than 20,000 additional troops to Iraq.

A large part of the appeal of pop culture is that it can offer symbolic resolutions to life's contradictions.

In early June, that delegation passed a mostly symbolic resolution urging state leaders to pass a transit policy.

A river is always flowing conveniently by whenever he needs a decorative image or symbolic resolution.

However, this directive is a directive, not a symbolic resolution in which something like that can be stated.