| Abbots, abbesses and bishops were buried with their croziers, the pastoral staffs symbolic of their office. |
| One argument in favour of the mandatory life sentence is that it amounts to a symbolic indication of the unique heinousness of murder. |
| The mirror-like quality of standing water may have had symbolic implications too. |
| But more than all that, weddings are symbolic of new beginnings and a bright future. |
| The policy of making only a perfunctory effort or symbolic gesture toward the accomplishment of a goal, such as racial integration. |
| It is a statue cast in bronze and shows both realism of style and undoubted symbolic ritual function. |
