It would, he said, be a 'great symbol of unity in the country'.

This symbol of unity has for nine months governed in a cynically partisan way.

The cricketers, once the proud symbol of unity and self-assertion, have become the unwitting totems of a society in moral and financial decline.

Although they do not wield any political powers anymore, they are still a symbol of unity and continuance to their people.

In the end, these lanterns became a symbol of unity for the barrios.

Her objects are decorated with peonies, the “king” of flowers and the symbol of wealth.

However, owning a camel was a symbol of wealth that few could afford.

As a symbol of wealth and prowess the city's old merchants and industrialists paved its streets not with gold but with imported marble.

Air travel became a symbol of wealth and a tan was all the rage.

They are a discreet symbol of wealth and success.

It was for a generation the most tangible symbol of the bankruptcy of a system that extended across much of the world for much of the last century.

Products produced include tangible symbol cues, customized positioning systems, and customized work surfaces.

The development of a universal tangible symbol system.

A photograph of a cup can be used as a two-dimensional tangible symbol to also represent the action: drink.

For example, a cup can be used as three-dimensional tangible symbol to represent the action: drink.

The key was the ultimate symbol of religious power.

They devised a grid, the ultimate symbol of security: lines of latitude running east to west, and longitude north to south.

It's hard not to see it as the ultimate symbol of romance - surely my soulmate knows me well enough to choose correctly?

The boom seems the ultimate symbol of the greed of the rich in the globalised economic good times of the last decade.

It might end up the ultimate symbol of a tyrannical regime.

The use of an arrow to indicate directionality was, some argued, an artefact of human hunting techniques, rather than a universal symbol.

He became not just an internationally renowned author and educator but a universal symbol of the human spirit's ability to triumph over evil.

Together the lilly, jasmine and chrysanthemum—combined with rose buds, the universal symbol for love and courage—provide a metaphor for a well-cultivated, albeit sometimes tangled life full of obstacles and challenges.

The duty of remembrance has been taken up by succeeding generations and given a universal symbol in the poppy, which flowered each spring in the chaos of the trenches.

The human hand, at the same time, stands as a universal symbol of protection.

That remains the most visible symbol of the festival to this day.

Our smartphones are just the visible symbol of the cyberrevolution: a revolution in how we interact, with whom, how often and in what number.

These returns must in fact have been considerable, for the side-wings of the building are unusually long, a visible symbol of prosperity.

Not only was the site naturally defensible, but its prominence would have allowed the castle to be a highly visible symbol of the builder's power.

The name literally means horizontal rope and comes from the most visible symbol of their rank, the worn around the waist.

By the late 1950s he also developed his own system of graphic notation incorporating visual symbols, relying on their interpretation and improvisation by performers.

The ceremony of public penitence then began with a procession of prisoners, who bore elaborate visual symbols on their garments and bodies.

Visual symbols were deemed trivial and subservient, thus were largely ignored.

She pioneered a system of visual symbols, first using pipe cleaners to easily create the shapes.

The alphabet with its limited number of visual symbols to represent the primary elements of human speech was well suited to trade.