Sentence examples for a token presence from inspiring English sources

He was a success story in the white art world but also a token presence.

She has also declined interviews, further seeming to confirm that hers is but a token presence in London.

"His going abroad suggests more substance than ceremony and he likely has more authority to work out something meaningful and not simply be a token presence," Grisafi says.

Any more than a token presence of US troops will perpetuate this culture of dependency and stop this reckoning from occurring.

Today only 10 members of the Portadown Orange Lodge were allowed onto the site to keep what the police called a "token" presence.

Now, after one botched shareholder vote on the question, the company will try again, even though it plans only a token presence in the islands.

But some analysts said even a token Muslim presence might be welcome as sign of support for the interim government.

Some Times folk suspect that it won't take long for the Paris operation to be reduced to a token editorial presence and a satellite printing plant.

Like many bromances, theirs will be a relationship built on initial mistrust, dawning mutual appreciation and only a token female presence.

Five districts of 13 are outside government hands and controlled by the insurgents, and three more districts have only a token government presence and foreign troops in the district centers.

Arms smuggling in particular surged last year, as rebels in Libya grabbed huge stocks of weapons accumulated during the paranoid reign of Colonel Muammar Qaddafi.Complaints from Israel and its Western allies over Sinai's increasing lawlessness have often been met with protests that the 1979 peace treaty restricted Egypt's army to a token, lightly armed presence.