Sometimes it's a token thing: they might do it for one season, then go back to the same as they had before".
And while some LGBT advocates perceive Hud's commitment to ending housing discrimination as a mere "token thing", other activists applaud the reforms, which do, in fact, nudge us closer to being a fair nation.
(Of course, that was the point of the entire thing – a token to appease far-right, UKIP-py type Tory backbenchers by throwing a bone to British people who represent a 1950s 'traditional' domestic set up and leaving the rest of us in no doubt that our lives are not considered to be of equal value).
So the bunch of a dozen red roses bought at the wildly inflated price of a dozen rose bushes should not be unfairly judged in comparison to 'real' roses: they are merely a symbol, a token confusingly similar to the thing that it represents.
It's not just some token thing.
Consequently, it seems that the worst thing that could happen would be for the Mercury to acquiesce to the protesters' demands and introduce a token metal nomination to go alongside the token jazz and folk ones.
Or is it because so many things have been taken from these people that to give them back even a token would be to give back too much?
"Singing the song of our neighbor is not a token kind of thing," says Lange. "It should be an exercise into getting to know who the neighbor is.
"In the years to come," the prime minister said, "the county and country alike may look at the Preston bypass – a fine thing in itself but a finer thing as a symbol – as a token of what is to follow".
According to subjects' preferences, tokens were referred to as token A (associated to the high-preferred food), token B (associated to the medium-preferred food), and token C (associated to the low-preferred food).
