Sentences with phrase «largely symbolic move»

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.

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.

The new titles are a largely symbolic move because the two newly appointed CEOs were already leaders of their respective divisions.

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One American legal group filed suit against Modi this week, though the move is largely seen as symbolic, reports Reuters.

-LSB-...] a move the Chicago Tribune called «largely symbolic», the Windy City banned BPA.

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».

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.

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