Sentence examples for to be token from inspiring English sources

Singleton said he considered the Daily Mail's gesture to be token at best.

It is meant to be token of appreciation, a modest gift that unites two families -- loosely akin to an engagement ring.

Mehri said: "In the U.K., the critics of the rule just think these are going to be token interviews and I pointed out to them how the rule works here.

There have also been what appear to be token donations across party lines, including $349 to Senator Dale M. Volker and $150 to Senator Mary Lou Rath, both Republicans from upstate New York.

I'm happy to be "token science guy" at times, but I'm not letting what little credibility I have get sullied further by having to speak to that guy as if his views should be taken seriously.

And it justifies things that are no longer, if they ever were, justifiable.' " Some Israeli Arab leaders say mainstream Israelis see as groundbreaking some events that appear to them to be token or trivial -- like the recent employment of four Arab flight attendants by El Al, or the crowning last year of the first Arab woman as Miss Israel.

Such stones with sharp fractures, found in great quantities in layers from the geological epochs before the Pleistocene, were once assumed to be tokens of human presence in the preceding Pliocene and even earlier Miocene epochs.

Some proponents of this view conclude that the attitudes in which these contents figure cannot be held to be token-identical to underlying physical states of those agents, even though all states and events may indeed be physical in some other sense (Burge 1979, 1993).

And in holding that whatever causes a y to be tokened determines the meaning of y, no room would be made for cases of error cases where some z causes y to be tokened, but y nonetheless counts as mistakenly applied to z.

Second, that the most promising approach to semantics is a causal theory, which in broad stroke holds that the objects or events that cause an utterance to be tokened by an agent determine the meaning of that utterance.

A first pass at a strict semantic-determining law might say something like the following: 'for all x's, if x causes y to be tokened, then y means x'.