The Opera House was lit in a deep shade of green to symbolise renewable energy.
Can the mild-mannered Mr Kilicdaroglu steer his party away from the elitism that it has come to symbolise?
The crash has come to symbolise the corrosive effects of corruption - where safety standards are compromised to ensure kick-backs.
The charge of "Conservative sleaze" came to symbolise the national mood that something was rotten at the heart of government.
"My aim was to symbolise what is going on in the mind of patient during the depression and mania, " Marwah tells me.
When a young man donned his whites, he was expected to symbolise fair play and national glory, not to earn a decent living.
But they seemed to symbolise one thing now within East Timor's grasp - real hope for the future and with it peace at last.
IBM's silver high-rise headquarters in Buenos Aires has come to symbolise the many allegations of corruption that, proven or not, hover around his administration.
The opposition Socialists boycotted the vote, walking out of parliament and hanging black flags from their windows to symbolise a black day for Hungarian democracy.
But armed with the former magistrate's words, supporters of Mr Hakamada, who has come to symbolise the rot in Japan's criminal-justice system, felt their case was strong.
That deal has come to symbolise the excesses of the banking bubble: two of the three consortium members, RBS and Fortis, have since been taken into majority state control.
Partly plated with 24ct gold and commissioned by the Incorporation of Goldsmiths, the abstract sculpture was designed to symbolise the importance of the three honours in the history of Scotland.
The season of Lent is marked by fasting and acts of penitence for past sins, with worshippers marking a cross on their foreheads with wood ash to symbolise human mortality.
Mr Santos's case is particularly troubling because he had come to symbolise a new civic mood of resistance, in which Colombia's urban middle classes had stirred from their resigned apathy.
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Plaid officials have said it is about using precisely the right phrase rather than attempt to symbolise the party's ability to straddle Wales's split personality, but it is hard not to see that in it.
The campaigners, who claim nuclear power stations are dangerous, said they planned to scatter a total of 577 seed balls on the land to symbolise each day since the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in March 2011.
Beyond this point, however, his argument with the SDLP seemed to symbolise the gulf between the Irish political system, in which referenda, sometimes on apparently technical points, are a regular feature, and the British approach in which they tend to be few and far between.
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At the state opening of Parliament on December 3rd, the doors of the House of Commons were slammed in the face of Black Rod an official who summons MPs to hear the Queen's Speech to symbolise the Commons' independence, a principle the civil war was fought to affirm.
They want the monarch to empathise with people and symbolise Britain, as well as acting as an ambassador at large abroad.
He points out that what is done in the next few years could become as important in the public consciousness as hospitals - which, he says, symbolise our "willingness to care for each other".
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The Chinese have long angled for a visit by Mr Rumsfeld, hoping that this would symbolise America's willingness to put aside the fracas that broke out between them in April 2001 when a reckless Chinese fighter bumped into an American reconnaissance plane, forcing it to make an emergency landing in China.
"These pictures symbolise the natural resources and economic ambition that drove Derbyshire people to make the county the powerhouse of Britain in the early industrial revolution, " he explained.
These small but dense cakes filled with lotus paste and a whole egg-yolk centre symbolise the full moon, and it is the accepted practice to share a cake with friends, family and colleagues.
They are said to celebrate some of Scotland's major and most recognisable engineering achievements and "symbolise solidity, stability and continuity".
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They symbolise Taiwan's transformation from a maker of cheap plastic toys 25 years ago to a manufacturer of leading technologies.
The new project would, according to Chung Mong-hun, chairman of the South Korean conglomerate, Hyundai, "symbolise the beginning of active economic co-operation between the two Koreas".
"President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama symbolise the hope, opportunity and inspiration that make Chicago great, and we are honoured to have two of our city's most accomplished residents leading our delegation in Copenhagen, " Chicago Mayor Richard M Daley said on Monday.
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