Sentence examples for be a token from inspiring English sources

The LGA said it had been reassured that the nominees would not just be a token minority on a health care trust board.

"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.

Depending on your viewpoint, that will either be a token of the civilised world's determination to make a start, at least, on outlawing bullies and sadists in high places, or a proof of the world's double standards.

"And ye shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of a covenant betwixt Me and you," it says in Genesis 17.

Will there be a token interest rate cut, and, if so, is there any point in cutting them further when they are already close to zero and, in some instances, negative?

For the poor and unemployed there can only be a token order, a reminder to the father that he has children for whom he is responsible, and that the order could be revisited if circumstances change.

He's a token passenger".

It was a token".

"It's a token of appreciation".

But his was a token protest.

I'm a token woman anyway.