Sentences with phrase «symbolic victory for»

Coal only provides about 4 percent of the state's power, but closing down the dirtiest power plant is a symbolic victory for environmentalists.

The endorsement is a symbolic victory for Specter in his Democratic primary battle against Rep. Joe Sestak — the former Navy admiral running to Specter's left — and will help protect Specter from critics who have questioned his commitment to the party.

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Hitler was desperate for a symbolic victory over the mother country of football but the German team proved to be no match for Stanley Matthews and company and England ran out 6 - 3 winners.

While the presidency is a mostly symbolic post, the race had attracted Europe - wide attention as the next possible victory for populists after Donald Trump's presidential win in the United States and Britain's Brexit vote.

Going back to his hometown for this historic moment was symbolic to Obama because the city is where he worked as a young community organizer and where eight years ago he declared victory to become the country's first black president.

The drive to ban reparative therapy is understandable, but apart for the symbolic victory, I worry it won't have the intended effect.

Pedro Noguera, who directs UCLA's Center for the Study of School Transformation, said last week's election results were «more of a symbolic victory than something that is actually going to have an impact.»

It can just hope for a symbolic victory that it can try to use for PR purposes.

A win by the plaintiffs, says the Globe, «would dismantle a federal statute that affects more than 1,000 marriage - related benefits, and it would be a huge victory on symbolic and practical levels for supporters of same - sex marriage.»

The 500,000 milestone is both a symbolic and real victory for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander survival.