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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a token change" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a minor or superficial alteration that does not significantly impact the overall situation or outcome.
Example: "The company made a token change to its policy, but many employees felt it did not address the real issues at hand."
Alternatives: "a symbolic change" or "a minimal change".
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Attempts at "village democracy" are a token change, intended to strengthen the party's grip.
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All he aspired to was a few token changes, which he could then present as something more significant," the Rochester MP recalls.
While the researchers found that these claims were true for some of the cards they tested, other cards gave up the actual credit card number and did not use a token or change data from one transaction to another.
"It may feel like a token, superficial change," Sposato said of the news conference itself.
"But I'd argue that those token changes are a necessary component of advancing the discussion and modeling the right behavior for the long term". Carolyn Leighton, the founder and chairwoman of Women in Technology International, said Apple's inclusion of Bailey and Prescott also makes excellent business sense because it shows that the company is acknowledging women as part of its audience.
Within weeks, the plaintiffs agreed to a settlement with the magazine that promised "substantial rather than token changes," including invites to the editorial lunches and a commitment to identifying women who were candidates to become senior editors.
Durbrow saw the coup as a sign that Diệm was unpopular and with the South Vietnamese president making only token changes, the ambassador informed Washington that Diệm might have to be removed.
By the same token, changes in brain activity, on their own, tell us very little about cognitive abilities.
Because the food industry will make minimal and token changes until they're forced to do otherwise.
At the latest general assembly held in April, prohibitionist policies held sway and only token changes in the direction of harm reduction were made.
The script was preapproved by China's censorship board with only token changes — the emperor's name had to be fictionalized, for instance.
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