Sentence examples for token forces from inspiring English sources

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

In Oct., 1983, after Bishop and his associates were assassinated by more hard-line radicals within his own movement, the United States, with token forces from other Caribbean nations, invaded and occupied Grenada.

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.

Friendly Arab states are providing mainly token forces.

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

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

But the new resolution sends only a token force of 18 to 20 military, police and political observers to Yugoslavia.

It was the UK that suggested the UN peacekeepers be withdrawn, leaving a "token force" in order to "appease public opinion".

When Russia went to war with Turkey (1807), the Serbs had a powerful ally, but the Russians offered only a token force.