Sentence examples for as a token for from inspiring English sources
'Postage stamps', basically as a token for payment of postal taxes, are now being recognized as an information source and historical document in recording national achievements that visually convey four core elements: denomination, country name, graphical design, and the textual element.
In most European countries Maundy Thursday is known as Holy Thursday; other names are Green Thursday (Gründonnerstag; common in Germany), from the early practice of giving penitents a green branch as a token for completing their Lenten penance, and Sheer Thursday (clean Thursday), which refers to the ceremonial washing of altars on this day.
Joel Swanson, for example, centered his residency around the semiotic nature of the keyboard, and how the chosen symbol, shape or inclusion (or exclusion) of certain keys on a keyboard could be read as a token for social or cultural events from the computer's era.
Consequently, we postulate that neither the growth of anaerobic pathogens from effluent nor polymicrobial growth serves as a token for intra-abdominal events.
For example, after we gave participants in focus groups soap, as a token of gratitude for participating, a male patient (age 53) said: "We also want to thank you for the soaps that you have brought us.
Harrell Fletcher gave a photograph to Lisa Sigal and Byron Kim as a token of thanks for hospitality.
He has spent months' worth of his inflated salary at Tiffany's on a diamond engagement ring, as a token of love for his fiancée.
New York's first public monument was erected, just six years before the Revolution, as a token of respect for King George III of England.
On Saturdays, a family-style lunch is served to workers as a token of thanks for workdays that can stretch to 15 hours.
In January, Ms. Mulcahy told Xerox employees that, as a token of appreciation for sticking with the company through bad times, they could all take their birthdays off.
A second paradigm would involve a generally acceptable gift, such as an inexpensive ballpoint pen given as a token of appreciation for purchasing a competitively priced high-quality product.
