Finally, while I've made this point many times, I'll make it again: For the past quarter - century, schooling has played a significant symbolic role in presidential contests. (educationnext.org)
The minister's symbolic role makes him a natural supportive counselor. (religion-online.org)
So some archaeologists have questioned whether these earlier ornaments played the same symbolic roles as the later ones, or even whether they were made by humans at all. (sciencemag.org)