Acknowledging these painful truths and in a token of my conversion, I have burned my voter registration card so as to never be patsy or party to another damn fool election.
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The first tree was brought over in 1947 as a token of Norwegian appreciation of British friendship during the Second World War.
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However, I will register my formal protest with the market, in terms of a token position, if Apple hits the number-two slot.
For many years it was suspected, but always denied, that a number of law firms maintained a network of individuals who would buy token amounts of stock in many companies.
But this does not lessen their anger about a government that pledges itself to excellence in education and increasing parental choice, but that seems willing to risk the extinction of some of the best state schools in the country as part of a token genuflection to the politics of old Labour.
In the end the Republicans are likely to put up only token resistance, in part because some of the president's moves are popular (two-thirds of Americans approve of his clemency towards the dreamers, for example).
Another prominent Republican governor, Wisconsin's Tommy Thompson, has issued more than 1, 500 vetoes, and displays a six-foot yellow pencil in his office, a token of thanks from tight-fisted Republican legislators.
Should not the Court, by the same token, rule swiftly in favour of voucher schemes like Cleveland's?
By the same token, in the highest rungs of even our dumbed-down democracy, cultural capital is a similar marker for career and mating success.
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Following the invention of the Boulton steam press in 1787 which raised the cost of forgery a British token currency flourished, initially issued by private firms before being nationalised in 1816.
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In the Commons, Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon dismissed speculation that British troops might participate in a ceremony involving the token destruction of arms by all sides of the Northern Ireland peace process.
Think of the utility of a subway token in preference to cash, or (as in Monopoly), how much easier it is to move a game piece around a board than your physical self.
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Looking for a subtle token of love for the lady in your life?
By the same token, the interests of peace in the Middle East would not be served if, in negotiations with its neighbours, Israel made concessions that weakened its defences.
By the same token the thirty-year hiatus in construction of new nuclear plants following Three Mile Island limited another important component of our energy mix and reduced our current options.
The randomness of the token, meanwhile, is designed to thwart a different kind of fraud, in which the bad guy makes a clone of the credit card.
In the 1996 trial in the token booth case, the defense accused Scarcella of beating one of the suspects.
By the same token, the federal bailouts of banks in response to the 2008 financial crisis stabilized the economy.
In the real world, the concept of a token generally refers to the act of substituting something simple and convenient for something more cumbersome or complicated.
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STRIEGEL-MOORE: What we think drives some of the binge eating is stress-related, and so if you're talking about someone who is upwardly mobile or who is in a context where they're, you know, a token person, they may experience a considerable amount of stress and that that may, in part--contributing to their eating problem.
By the same token, the conservative government of Manuel Santos in Colombia has initiated talks with the guerilla group known as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
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By the same token, the electoral power which will be in charge of supervising the electoral process is based on a system of appointments and nominations which will be controlled by Correa.
Google wants to hand off its proposal to standards bodies in the hopes that some form of PKI-based token authentication will be widely adopted by everyone from browser manufacturers, to website owners to device makers.
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In effect, the token would act as a keychain for a ring of virtual keys.
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In addition, some contingents will be no more than a token force of 100 men.
This feature, which Dr. Keynes opposed, was at the time largely a fig leaf, a token to past practices but played no significant role in the function of Bretton Woods.
So in practice it follows that the role of the commissioner will be more token than real.
Sabah became part of Malaysia in 1963, and the country still pays a token rent to the Sulu Sultanate each year.
This was allegedly as a token of royal favour and regard, but it was also in practice a way of inflicting lasting damage on them.
By the same token, we need to respect the nature of the medium in the sense that technology moves very quickly, and any policy that is tied to a given technology is going to be outmoded before it is enacted.
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