So,it is both the physical and symbolic center of the building.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

Two Negroes were admitted, but only afterGovernor George Wallace had carried outhis symbolic threat to stand in the school house door.

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(Recording) Keita says the 28th of September is now more than just a symbolic day simply marking the anniversary of Guinea's independence.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

It's taking place at the heart of Europe, and we think that is an important symbolic moment,as well,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

In front of the National Monument, protesters lined the grass with symbolic tombstones honoring soldiers and civilians killed in recent U.S.military action.

VOA: standard.2010.03.20

Demonstrators then prepared symbolic flag-draped coffins marking the presence of the U.S.military in different foreign countries.

VOA: standard.2010.03.20

Wells Fargo's rugged but beautiful Concord stagecoaches, built in New Hampshire and employed all across the country, became symbolic of the dangerous journeys across the western plains and mountains.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

The Nobel Peace Prize is clearly a symbolic gesture.

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

But in a symbolic protest of what the State Department Wednesday termed Iran's appalling and deplorable treatment of election protestors, it is withdrawing invitations for Iranian diplomats to attend traditional U.S.embassy Fourth of July parties.

VOA: standard.2009.06.24