Sentence examples for a token victory from inspiring English sources
But theirs is rather a token victory.
He is counting on the Nets to reach higher than a token victory over the Knicks.
Even ousted CEO Travis Kalanick got a token victory when he issued a statement saying he believed Uber would have won the case regardless.
France surrendered before there was an opportunity for even a token Italian victory, and Mussolini left for a meeting with Hitler, sadly aware, as Ciano put it, that his opinion had "only a consultative value". Indeed, from then on Mussolini was obliged to face the fact that he was the junior partner in the Axis alliance.
If it were true then the opposite would also be true: if defeat equals moral poverty, then by the same token victory must be evidence of purity, good grace and divine, moral standing.
So long as Cameron can point to a couple of token victories over Brussels, the likes of Michael Gove and Philip Hammond – who once threatened to vote for out – are likely to campaign to stay in.
The viewer may even be lulled into believing that Caleb, a goofy, tousled "nice guy" who decides to rescue Ava from the hairy grasp of her creator, deserves to ride off into the sunset with her, a token of his victory over the more dystopian, overtly misogynistic Bateman.
Once there, the Rangers, having given scant effort in pursuit of victory on the ice, made only a token effort at an explanation afterward.
Warne wrote in his autobiography that John told him that he was a wealthy man and that the payment was a token of his appreciation he had made money by betting on Australian victories in the past.
It eventually won the case, but it was a Pyrrhic victory: the organisation responsible for publishing the booklet in Switzerland was ordered to pay only a token fine.
