Sentence examples for token force from inspiring English sources

Manassas Junction was lightly guarded by a token force of Federal soldiers under the command of Capt.

In the 1947 constitution drafted by MacArthur's staff Japan renounced war and limited its military to a token force.

It was the UK that suggested the UN peacekeepers be withdrawn, leaving a "token force" in order to "appease public opinion".

Many analysts and historians fault Washington and other western capitals not just for failing to support the token force of overwhelmed UN peacekeepers but for failing to speak out more forcefully during the slaughter.

Despite a UN Security Council resolution last July promising to do everything possible, little has been done: no military intervention bar a token force of 1,000-odd 1,000-oddfrom the African Union, no UN soldierss, no punitive measures ofromy kind.

A recommendation to keep 3,000 American troops, first reported on Tuesday by Fox News, would leave in place a token force where many commanders had hoped to see a robust presence continue in a region that is viewed as strategic to American interests.

Any smaller nations that envisioned keeping token forces would most likely have no way of doing so.

But it's fanciful to think that the token forces we could send would have any deterrent effect on a country that has the combined might of America and Japan spooked.

But once the administration went in with the backing of only Britain and token forces from elsewhere, the United States had a responsibility to the Iraqi people to stay and establish a free and stable government.

They offer "intelligence-sharing" and token forces when the obvious reality, after Charlie Hebdo, is that the Islamist jihadist terrorism threatening Europe has now replaced Tehran-backed Bashar al-Assad as the west's main security concern – and is the product, to a large degree, of the Saudis' repeat mistakes.

During the war, oil-producing Arab nations, primarily Libya and Saudi Arabia, initiated an oil embargo, and several sent token forces to the front lines.