Sentences with phrase «largely symbolic»

The campaign began shortly after President Obama made a largely symbolic gesture by banning the use of solitary confinement for all juveniles in the federal system.

It is entirely reasonable to ask whether it is adequate that at the end of a sustained ten year process of reconciliation the government has failed to provide a national response and detailed plan of action for implementation of the recommendations of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation and has instead dismissed them as being of largely symbolic rather than practical application.

Field says the fight over Keystone is largely symbolic but still important, because other countries are looking to the United States to lead on climate change.

However, the US has not ratified the convention, so a ruling in favour of the Inuit would be largely symbolic.

Any youth influence over COP negotiations has been rendered largely symbolic.

This month, Donald Trump announced the largely symbolic withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement, reaffirming his commitment to resurrecting the waning coal industry and accelerating the production of domestic fossil fuels.

And so if the U.S. departure from the Paris Agreement does not disrupt international progress, then Trump's move may prove largely symbolic.

It can send a powerful message, if town after town, city after city, around the world issues a ban on new fossil fuel projects — even if largely symbolic.

Lafayette passed a largely symbolic rebuke to the oil and gas industry known as «The Climate Bill of Rights and Protections» earlier this month.

By maintaining an ongoing dialogue with his roots in the agrarian south, Binion's paintings are largely symbolic, achieving a spiritual resonance that defies the typically reductive materialism associated with East Coast minimalism.

We hope this new largely symbolic measure will help us create a more pleasant and cultivated environment for all of our readers, and, as always, we thank you deeply for your support.

Rather, he said, the laws are largely symbolic, and meant to educate dog owners as well as people who let pets into spaces where they don't belong.

«I've been thinking about Cricket, including our recent outings and the status of the minor issues we've been working on, and I've made a decision that is largely symbolic in CA but emotionally important.

, so it's largely symbolic.

However, the victory can be considered as largely symbolic as Samsung had already replaced the particular tablet with a reworked version named the Galaxy Tab 10.1 N. Apple has sought a preliminary injunction on the sale of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 N, though the court clearly wasn't impressed enough.

What this means is that Apple's much publicized victory in its patent war against Samsung is largely symbolic.

While the measure is largely symbolic in that it can not change policy regarding charter growth — that is a state matter — it's a way to open a «difficult conversation...

While the measure is largely symbolic in that it can not change policy regarding charter growth — that is a state matter — it's a way to open a «difficult conversation that is long overdue,» said its only sponsor, Scott Schmerelson.

As such, given the current political and fiscal climate, many of his budget proposals are unlikely to be approved and are largely symbolic in nature.

LAUSD's school Board President Steve Zimmer led the board in March to make a controversial — and largely symbolic — vote in favor of one of the more noxious school - union - backed bills to get a hearing in the state Capitol.

The 2014 race for state superintendent, a largely symbolic position overseeing public schools, was the most expensive of any elected office in California that year.

In a later, largely symbolic poll, 97.7 percent of the American Federation of Teachers» delegates who...

The Senate, in a largely symbolic gesture, recently voted to prohibit the U.S. Justice Department from taking «any sort of action» requiring the busing of students to schools other than those nearest their homes.

Common Core attempted to transform largely symbolic accountability systems into something tougher, which is precisely why it failed.

Contrary to the largely symbolic reactions to competition evident when the school choice movement was just beginning, we find evidence of significant changes in district policy and practice.

Shortly after being elected Governor, he was appointed executive editor of both magazines, in a largely symbolic capacity.

While the milestone is largely a symbolic one, it does illustrate how far emissions have risen from their preindustrial levels of 280 ppm.

► Members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives are working on «reconciling their versions of a largely symbolic but politically sensitive budget plan,» David Malakoff reported on Monday at ScienceInsider.

In an effort to highlight their differences with some Republicans on climate policy, several Democrats have filed largely symbolic amendments to a bill that would approve the Keystone XL pipeline.

Nonetheless, Paglen acknowledges that there's a slim chance he could be wrong and it is important to him that the gesture, although largely symbolic, is real.

This largely symbolic move — CGIAR is a nonprofit research outfit that freely gives away its technology — dramatically raises the profile of the technology's critics.

The introduction of the Golden bill, which would amend domestic relations law, is largely symbolic: The Democratic - controlled Assembly supports same - sex marriage, and Cuomo has made it one of the top three items on his agenda for the rest of the legislative session.

I recognize that this will be largely symbolic on January 1 at noon (because the real swearing in will be done twelve hours earlier in a closed formal ceremony) but it begs the point as to what symbolism our new mayor is looking to project.

Ms. Turner had abruptly resigned from her Port Authority seat last week after the video surfaced, making the public censure largely symbolic.

The Regents» decision is largely symbolic, because SUNY will still have the final say.

The congressman said the current U.S. sanctions are largely symbolic, but he wouldn't be surprised if there are more on the horizon.

The order seemed largely symbolic, since the state Health Plan Association said its members already covered tomosynthesis when medically necessary.

While the title of vice chair is largely symbolic, according to people involved in the committee, the move shows that there is still resentment towards the IDC among rank - and - file Democrats, especially on the left - flank of the party.

The Business Secretary admitted that Chancellor George Osborne had been eager to maintain the top level, but said the reduction to AA1 was «largely symbolic».

On Wednesday, he tapped former one - term Rep. Kathy Hochul of Buffalo for the largely symbolic spot, replacing the retiring Bob Duffy...

The decision, which is largely symbolic because the firms do not do business with Iran, comes two days after the US announced new sanctions on a number of foreign firms accused of collaborating with Iran's weapons programme.

The budget resolutions passed by the legislative chambers are largely symbolic documents, but allow both the Senate and Assembly to stake out their public positions on key issues in the budget talks.

The ruling will probably turn out to be largely symbolic, as Iran is very unlikely to ever pay the damages.

In her State of the City address earlier this month she proclaimed Syracuse a sanctuary city — a largely symbolic move that could put the city at odds with the White House.

ALBANY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork / AP)-- Democrats in the New York state Senate failed Wednesday in a largely symbolic attempt to oust the chamber's Republican leader, following his arrest on federal corruption charges.

In a sign that the 2012 legislative session will feature sharp (and partisan) battles in the Senate, Democrats are accusing the GOP majority of trying to edit out references to abortion, reproductive rights and contraceptives in a largely symbolic resolution calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to declare next week «Reproductive Rights and Justice Week.

Tony Blair continued to move the party further to the centre, abandoning the largely symbolic Clause Four at the 1995 mini-conference in a strategy to increase the party's appeal to «middle England».

The resolutions are largely symbolic, but they signify a starting point in budget negotiations.

Britain's proposed involvment is relatively minor as things stand, with even government figures admitting that it is largely symbolic.

«This executive order is largely symbolic and reduces transparency since it allows financial contributions made by employees to political action committees and political parties to be transferred back to the county executive,» Nicolello said in a statement.