Sentences with phrase «do symbolic gestures»

«If people want to waste money and do symbolic gestures and start ratcheting down their cities» energy use and emissions and start putting in mandates for energy that doesn't produce the same for fossil fuels — more power to them.

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«He's often absent, but when he shows up it's some sort of an over-the-top symbolic gesture to assert his relevance when it doesn't really accomplish anything and people have to say, «What was the point of that?

I just don't see it as a big deal and I think it's a proper symbolic gesture of peace for those who died.

As in similar Native American traditions, «all these symbolic images and gestures are associated with the wind and with the breathing of the universe — the visible motion of the power that invests everything in existence» (Jamake Highwater in Ritual of the Wind) To exist in family is to experience an insistent Chinook wind, blowing warm in winter and cool in summer, lending a direction and center to all that one does.

So shutting the program down at that point only serves a symbolic gesture, it doesn't actually add anything to the table.

Apparently, doing away with «Fort Pataki» by opening up the second floor and removing the concrete barriers from around the state Capitol — admittedly both largely symbolic gestures by Cuomo — wasn't enough for Paladino.

Paterson spokesman Morgan Hook said yesterday that the governor would not return 10 percent of his salary — or $ 17,900 — to the state treasury, as he did last year in a «symbolic» gesture of solidarity with budget - squeezed public - employee unions.

The accusations of bias against the fight against corruption are increasing by the day and critics easily find ready examples to argue that the fight is only cosmetic and showy and government is only making do with a few symbolic gestures as proof that it is serious.

To paraphrase Will Rogers, Howard's never met a violin swell, standing ovation, or hackneyed symbolic gesture he didn't like, and A Beautiful Mind is stuffed to bursting with soulless tearjerks.

So, when he tosses out the notion of $ 20 billion for school choice, I don't think it's more than a short - lived symbolic gesture.

[10] doing away with it was a symbolic gesture, according to one of the program's last graduates, Tacey Miller.: http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/2015/05/13/the-final-class-of-the-north-carolina-teaching-fellows/

Unfortunately those numbers still don't completely reflect the futility of claiming that the 30 % RGGI emission reduction is anything other than a symbolic gesture.

Granted, but it makes no sense to oppose an ETS for Australia because it doesn't contain such symbolic gestures.

It doesn't replace federal printed currency, but augments it by getting people to make the practical and symbolic gesture of supporting local businesses before national chains.

This is mostly a symbolic gesture since Canada has already withdrawn from the Kyoto protocol and has done nothing to achieve its Kyoto targets.

«We are at a crossroads where we need to focus on substance rather than symbolic gestures, which do very little to improve the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

We are at a cross roads today where we need to focus on substance rather than symbolic gestures which do very little to improve conditions in our communities and the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.