Sentence examples for token troop from inspiring English sources

By his insistence on staying and making only token troop reductions as his presidency counts down, George Bush just postpones the inevitable.

Analysts told me that Trump's contradictory approach — a token troop increase combined with a refusal to negotiate — will result in the war grinding on.

Nixon was a cynic and a criminal, but he had astutely pivoted on foreign policy: he had made token troop withdrawals from Vietnam, hinted at negotiations with Hanoi, launched the opening to what he used to call Red China, and pursued détente with the Soviet Union.

Australia's government said it would commit a token 2,000 troops, flying in the face of wide Australian opposition to the deployment.

And Azerbaijan has offered to send a token contingent of troops to join a Turkish battalion earmarked for Kosovo.In this section What next for Slobodan Milosevic?

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".

But Iraq might have been better able to repel Al Qaeda if Mr. Maliki and the Americans had worked harder on a deal to keep a token number of troops in the country to continue helping with training and intelligence-gathering.

Terrorists in Iraq scored a victory when President Gloria Macapagal-Arrofo of the Philippines decided to accelerate the withdrawal of her nation's token contingent of troops to spare the life of a Filipino hostage.

On 13 September a token force including a troop from No. 4 Commando was dispatched to West Africa.

Soon, we will send a letter to the President urging that the plan be a sizable and sustained reduction of U.S. military forces in Afghanistan, not just a token reduction in the troop levels.

Any more than a token presence of US troops will perpetuate this culture of dependency and stop this reckoning from occurring.