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On Sunday the prime minister dismissed the idea as a gimmick and tokenistic.
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The sad reality is that the measure appears to be more like a tokenistic gesture as every day passes.
Nurses' concerns about NHS reform have been largely ignored | Peter Carter 2012
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A trio of lamb, chicken and vegetable samosas were, the rather tokenistic salad aside, great value at £3.75, all bursting with flavoursome ground meat and bright-eyed vegetables, all breezily seasoned with fresh herbs and spices.
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Wob discovered "overwhelming opposition" to enforced quotas, concern that the appointments would look "tokenistic", leading to a devaluation of female achievements, basically a big, gooey lipsticked kiss of career death.
If tokenism is what it takes to get on, so be it | Barbara Ellen 2011
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People whose indictments are highlighted are implicitly pre-judged and convicted, Time's tokenistic contribution to poisoning the jury pool; no cleaving nostalgically to a presumption of innocence for the prosecution cheerleaders at Time.
Conrad Black: Time's Fatuous and Egregious Coverage of Wall Street Prosecutor Conrad Black 2012
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Mr. HOWARD MOLLETT (CARE): One thing that our search found was that there are efforts to engage women around peace processes, but they tend to be largely tokenistic, ad hoc.
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The commission says it understands that many independent schools would have welcomed a clear definition of what constitutes public benefit in this context, and that this is absent from the ruling; equally the tribunal is clear that an expression of public benefit which is merely tokenistic cannot fulfil the necessary conditions for charitable status.
One in nine public schools could be at risk of losing their charitable status 2011
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The consideration given to the poor, Action Aid reported, was "paltry and tokenistic compared to the scale of unmet need".
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Mr. HOWARD MOLLETT (CARE): One thing that our search found was that there are efforts to engage women around peace processes, but they tend to be largely tokenistic, ad hoc.
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People whose indictments are highlighted are implicitly pre-judged and convicted, Time's tokenistic contribution to poisoning the jury pool; no cleaving nostalgically to a presumption of innocence for the prosecution cheerleaders at Time.
Conrad Black: Time's Fatuous and Egregious Coverage of Wall Street Prosecutor Conrad Black 2012
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