Sentence examples for Token from inspiring English sources

Nursultan Nazarbayev has led Kazakhstan as president, since independence in 1991, extending his tenure through a series of constitutional revisions and elections in which he has faced only token opposition.

"While I deplore what happened this week, I absolutely deplore what happened... by the same token there can be no truck with drug trafficking," Abbott said in an interview on 2GB Friday.

First, the GIB must be allowed to borrow from the capital markets the only way to make it a bank rather than a token fund, and to assure investors it's the real deal.

Also captured on video this week was an attempt by a group of men at BuzzFeed to recreate Kim Kardashian's 'break the internet' photo-shoot, a panda rolling in snow and a token GoPro video, this time courtesy of an eagle flying over London.

By the same token, in their macabre minds turning the babies over to "good" military families to raise as their own represented the ultimate victory over the "godless" left-wing enemy they wished to crush into nonexistence.

So long as Cameron can point to a couple of token victories over Brussels, the likes of Michael Gove and Philip Hammond – who once threatened to vote for out – are likely to campaign to stay in.

A life force in herself, Mrs Fantlova has written her story in a memoir called The Tin Ring, after the gift her lover in Terezín, a boy called Arno, gave her as a token.

Carlyle's transition from tradesman to thespian is well documented, perhaps because it's one of the few stories he'll tell about himself: 75p left over on his birthday book token, chanced upon a copy of The Crucible, hooked.

In his early years of token power, he privately threatened to resign and flee, but was stopped.

Wenlock, named after the Shropshire site of Britain's first Olympic revival, was a special token of this idealistic commitment.

The dead can be handled only by a designated class, who by this token became the 'untouchables' of an otherwise proudly casteless community, a marginalisation portrayed in Cyrus Mistry's unsettling novel, Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer.