Sentence examples for mere token from inspiring English sources

Nor would this be a mere token gesture of conciliation.

Yet, she did not pay so much of it that my contribution was a mere token".

Duguay did not make a mere token appearance for the Aces.

He had to know he could do nothing, his efforts a mere token.

The agency accepted a mere token payment that will not even come out of the individual's own pocket.

"You must realize that in truth this is not compensation, but a mere token," Mr. Wotova said.

But those are mere tokens compared with the markets that have been installed next to dining rooms lately, from well-stocked alcoves to free-standing grocery stores and wine shops.

She argues that FTMs are mere tokens who are used to prop up claims that transsexuality is a universal phenomenon and thereby hide its true patriarchal character.

The separate was an acknowledgment that women were not cookie-cutter specimens and thus not mere tokens of exchange between men.

At the information meeting the oral information given by the researcher in the face-to-face interaction with the possible participants was in the forefront, whereas the written information and consent forms were perceived as mere tokens of the study being conducted properly.

For experience merely accumulates random representations; instruction helps the person to analyze, organize and combine these "formless fragments" (Weiss 1928: 200).[76] By the same token, mere everyday contact with others does not produce empathy.