For Palestinian leaders, his presence was also a symbolic triumph.

It was a symbolic triumph of youth over the establishment.

Claims that these victories permitted the independent development of European civilization seem exaggerated, but nonetheless they were major symbolic triumphs over the "Islamic hordes."

A symbolic triumph, really, because Daniel no longer considered Malkovsky a serious suspect-not in light of the bloody rock discovery.

Nonetheless, the bill's supporters were elated by today's razor-thin loss, claiming a symbolic triumph that gives their cause momentum for another vote next year.

But for horseplayers everywhere, whether or not they realize it, the time and place of the announcement represented a major symbolic triumph.

To many Harlem residents, the presence of the Body Shop and Ben & Jerry's is a sort of symbolic triumph.

However, because Henry never actually entered Paris in this fashion, the scene is supposed to represent only a symbolic triumph.

Mr. Fischer's victory was widely seen as a symbolic triumph of democracy over communism, and it turned the new champion into an unlikely American hero.

But the willingness of the African leaders to deal with both sides as equals was a symbolic triumph for Mr. Savimbi, Western diplomats here said.