Sentence examples for weak token from inspiring English sources

His strategy was to persuade the Southerners -- which meant persuading Dick Russell -- that it was in their interest to let something labeled civil rights go through: a weak, token something.

But any humor offered by the Dresden Dolls feels like a weak salve, some token consolation in the face of bitter disappointments.

It has been objected that this is an extremely weak condition, making token-identity too trivial a thesis to merit the label of even the most minimal materialism (Antony 2003; Latham 2003).

By the same token, a weak economy would hurt muni bonds two ways: Defaults would be more of a threat, and the supply would probably go up.

He is a saved sinner, so the dissipations of his early and middle years are not tokens of a weak character but testaments to the transformative power of his faith.

While environmentalists took some solace in the fact that he at least called for caps on some coal plant emissions, his goals were so weak as to be considered a token gesture.

By the same token, a move to war based on weak evidence will be a lonely and unpopular affair.

By the same token, the welfare state has always been weaker in the individualistic, ethnically divided US compared with more homogeneous Europe.

For discussion of the criticism that Davidson's monism is too weak to warrant the label 'materialism', see the supplement on Token-Identity and Minimal Materialism).

The objection that such structures must here be understood as tokens or tropes, rather than as types or full-blown Platonic qualities, seems relatively weak.

Realization, which has figured prominently in recent versions of non-reductive physicalism may seem too weak a relation to support a reduction claim, but nonetheless strong enough to guarantee ontological unity on the token level that underlies physicalism.