token gesture

This amount is still paid today, although as a token gesture.

This was, though, only in a small section of the ground and appeared to be a token gesture.

After all the rises, this is at best a token gesture.

Even where progress has been more or less a token gesture, it is the result of a long, hard struggle.

They said the recent steps have gone beyond token gestures.

She held out her hand to him, but they both knew it was a token gesture.

A token gesture by a System that suddenly wasn't working any longer.

She even went to the trouble to feel my forehead, a more token gesture than could be believed.

There must also be no more token gestures of a certain kind.

"But it's time for the governor to move beyond token gestures."