Sentence examples for a token reduction from inspiring English sources

To achieve accord on even a token reduction during its current stint as the Union's president, it needs support from the French on farm-policy reform and some give from the British over their budget rebate, won in the 1980s.

Soon, we will send a letter to the President urging that the plan be a sizable and sustained reduction of U.S. military forces in Afghanistan, not just a token reduction in the troop levels.

Mr. Carter tried to continue that effort, but in the end made only token reductions.

Russia's refusal so far to promise more than token reductions, and OPEC's announcement that it would not cut back production on its own, sent benchmark oil prices tumbling 20percentt last week.

To address some acknowledged shortcomings in Hooker's formulation of his general theory of reduction, Bickle (1998) reformulates Hooker's insights (including his token-token reduction supplement) within a set-theoretic "semantic" account of theory structure and relations.

One reply to the multiple realization objection from this perspective explicitly argues for token-token reduction, discussing how the causal description of a token mechanism explains (Delehanty 2005).

However, this stratagem ignores the key point of contention because token-token reduction is uncontroversial.

This latter tenet is sometimes called token-token reduction, in contrast to the stronger tenet that each type of biological process is identical to a type of physico-chemical process.

Token-token reduction obtains, but since the natural kinds (to which laws apply) of the higher level science cross-cut the kinds of the lower level science, type-type reduction fails and the law-based explanation on the higher level cannot be replaced by a unified law-based explanation on the lower level.

"A token," Harrison said of the reduction, adding that he took no satisfaction from it.

To accommodate this feature, Hooker (1981, Part III) supplements his general theory of reduction with an account of "token-to-token" reductions.