Sentence examples for only a token role from inspiring English sources

The de facto power will shift to the premier's office, with the new president playing only a token role.

More of that debt will be to official creditors, especially if the private bondholders play only a token role now.

Until last year, the United States military tried to defeat the insurgency on its own, with Iraqi forces playing only a token role.

But four years later teachers play only a token role in policy-making, their voices are largely unheard, and teaching is still held in low esteem.

Jones brings her usual class and professionalism to a token role, and I only imagine that her big scene remains on the cutting-room floor.

The chorus plays a token role.

Transitional leaders were keen to demonstrate rapid improvements and that women had more than a token role in policy-making.

Retail savers have escaped so far, although most earn only a token rate of interest.

The issue dominates Republican primaries and his position left him with only the most token role at the Republican Convention in his own home town, San Diego, in 1996.

The report, to be released Tuesday, contends that if the Obama administration leaves only a token contingent of troops behind in an advisory role, as currently planned, "security and political gains could be jeopardized".

For many Sunnis, the office is only a token concession, whatever their feelings about Mr. Najafi.