Sentence examples for a token attempt from inspiring English sources

Police and security guards made only a token attempt at bundling out demonstrators.

There isn't even a token attempt to recap on the plot or explain which elf is which.

When Sophie signals her availability to the passive-aggressive Robert, he seizes his opportunity and makes only a token attempt to conceal his infidelity.

A token attempt was made to start one but it was short-circuited by the faintly accusatory way in which the issue was raised.

A running subplot that "Scary Movie 3" makes only a token attempt to integrate into the story involves a homicidal videotape that sentences everyone who watches it to death in seven days.

The last few Emmy have at least made a token attempt to be a bit more subversive, mock the industry they are honouring, and attempt to engage a younger audience.

The Pentagon's new contract acquisition policy -- heralded for getting tough on military contractors -- is actually a feeble, token attempt to change a system that has spiraled out of control to the enormous benefit of the defense industry.

Furthermore, the token attempt at back story creates a quagmire that causes several increasingly stupid climactic revelations.

But the 44-year-old Episcopal priest's token attempt to take another gun off the streets did little to keep the peace.

Among McCartney biographers, Vincent Benitez writes that the songs are "uneven in quality", and Howard Sounes describes the album as "a curate's egg, good in parts, with token attempts at sounding contemporary".

But the movie makes only token attempts to acknowledge campus ferment.