Sentence examples for token role from inspiring English sources

The chorus plays a token role.

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.

Students and faculty at most universities don't expect to play more than a token role in the selection of a new president.

Enmeshed in what is usually taken to be a period of reaction against female empowerment, they offer far more than a token role.

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

For the likes of Watson and Steinfeld, it appears once again that the choice is between no mainstream roles or regressive token roles or playing a live-action Disney princess.

Still, South Asians have been largely absent from the American cultural conversation all too often relegated to token roles and two-dimensional stereotypes, if they make an appearance at all.

Parker also appeared in the 2008 French film Asterix at the Olympic Games as Tonus Parker, and he has been given token roles in various TV series like En aparté (2005), in addition to the French series On n'est pas couché (2011).

Pakistan has barred the United States from playing more than a token military role in the country.

Pakistan has barred the U.S. from playing more than a token military role in the country.