This was no mere gesture.

After all, Zidane, arguably the world s best football player, left with a gesture that has no place in any game.

At the time, the gesture was largely symbolic, as Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union and few could envisage an independent Ukraine.

Consider recycling, which is often just a feel good gesture with little environmental benefit and significant cost.

At first glance, it seems incredibly generous and statesman like for G 8 leaders to endorse debt relief for the world s poorest nations.

So far, King Abdullah has shown no sign of opting for a policy of inclusion not even a token gesture, such as a Shia minister.

And so the first thing that pretty much every nurse did, was hold the patient's hand to comfort them. Human gesture which made the fabulous two handed data input completely impossible.

He sent me an email, saying, If you get this thing off the ground I wish you all the best. And he signed it, Happy landings, which I thought was quite lovely.

The NDB makes sense for the BRICS, and it has a future.

In fact, Bush s was a brave gesture despite Uribe s success in combating drugs, paramilitaries and guerrillas, his capital is not an especially safe place.

But it left out a majority of the sources of emissions, and unless something is done to include the US and the developing countries in a meaningful way, it will be little more than a symbolic gesture.

It could also be something like this the National Museum of Science in London, where this blue is embracing all the exhibitions and galleries in one large gesture.

Closing Guantánamo is not a gesture to win applause from Europeans. It is a necessary revision of policy that will make the US, Europe, and the world safer.

In February, Egypt s Coptic patriarch, Pope Tawadros II, sharply criticized the country s leadership in a televised interview, calling the new constitution discriminatory and dismissing Morsi s national dialogues as an empty gesture.

PARIS When the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was established by the United Nations Security Council 20 years ago, on May 25, 1993, many regarded it as a meaningless gesture.

Instead, performance capture technology, originally invented for the movie Avatar, enables a human actor, Andy Serkis, to play the role of the chimpanzee Caesar, not by dressing in a chimp suit, but by having every gesture and facial movement, even the twitch of an eyebrow, transformed into the movement of an ape.