• The same phrase capped President Bush's speech to the nation last month, the words symbolising courage.

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  • The women wore white, symbolising pure intentions, and carried gladioli, a single stem each.

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  • He received the gold master-keys of the Tower from the Lord Chamberlain, symbolising his responsibility for the royal palace.

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  • Rather than symbolising Japan's apparently insatiable desire for luxury goods, however, this may have marked the start of its decline.

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  • In March 2007 they created a sculpture on Brighton beach of nearly 1, 740 stones, symbolising each day of his imprisonment.

    BBC: Profile: UK residents in Guantanamo

  • Though able, Mr Hammond and Ms Greening are seen as symbolising the victory of managerialism over passion, or of government over party.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • Harald Stock, Gruenenthal's chief executive, issued his company's apology at the unveiling of a bronze statue symbolising a child born without limbs because of thalidomide.

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  • The hyphen maintains separate identities while symbolising co-operation across the Rhine.

    ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

  • Ryl Nowell's garden, symbolising Anglo-French co-operation, features raised squares of mirror glass, a path of see-through mesh and a glass bridge over a strip of water representing the English Channel.

    ECONOMIST: Where are the flowers? | The

  • The party was met first on Castle Hill by 50 young men dressed up like fantastic blackamoors, a fairly common feature of Renaissance pageants symbolising exotic forces of disorder, which had to be tamed by the authority of a Christian ruler.

    BBC: Elizabethan drama and iconic theatres

  • For the first time in history, a woman - the Venerable Sheila Watson, Archdeacon of Canterbury - carried out one of the two enthronements when she installed the archbishop on the diocesan throne in the cathedral, symbolising his appointment as bishop of Canterbury.

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  • There are some fine art pieces as well, including The Rise in Belfast, two steel meshed spheres symbolising "the rising of the sun and new hope for Belfast's future", or, as it's more popularly known, due to its location, The Balls in the Falls.

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  • Our correspondent said he had fallen victim to the persistence of the Labour Party - "who portrayed him as all that was worst about the government, symbolising one rule for those at the top and one for everyone else" - and the Police Federation who were fighting the government over cuts and reform.

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