| The Government's move to raise the stamp duty threshold was, let's face it, no more than tokenistic. |
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| The result was largely tokenistic, with few of the female members feeling welcome there. |
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| Have you ever considered that your coverage of women's contribution to sport is anything other than tokenistic and dare I say it sexist? |
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| Despite a revived interest in Scottish identity in recent years, the teaching of Scottish history is patchy and tokenistic with glaring gaps spanning hundreds of years. |
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| It should not be done in a tokenistic way, where youth are given a platform but in reality have little say. |
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| Provisions relating to national parliaments, citizens' petitions and subsidiarity are merely tokenistic. |
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| But what is clear now is that relevant skills and professionalism are essential or otherwise our presence is tokenistic. |
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| There has also been poor practice: children manipulated by adults to 'say their piece' or appear on public platforms in a tokenistic role. |
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| In other countries, this involvement was seen as more tokenistic, or not adapted to local circumstances. |
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| The first is that political devolution risks being tokenistic without financial devolution giving councils more power over taxes. |
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| But those savings were tokenistic compared with the much bigger reductions that must be imposed in the next four years. |
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| But article 12 requires consistent and ongoing arrangements. Involvement of and consultation with children must also avoid being tokenistic and aim to ascertain representative views. |
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| The involvement of people with HIV in treatment education programmes must be carried out in a planned, sensitive and responsible manner to avoid being tokenistic, or to expose them to further stigma or discrimination. |
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| We also agreed that involvement of youth would not be tokenistic but that young people would play a full role on the International Steering Group and working groups, and indeed they have done so. |
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| Within structures, institutions and interventions it is recognized, not in tokenistic fashion, the need for interaction and dialogue of both genders on the question of small arms. |
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| Without the ability to implement change, the role feels tokenistic and I've never been one to go along with tokenism. |
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| David Cameron has to tour European capitals and come back with substantial powers and concessions beyond the tokenistic. |
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| But many say what followed has been tokenistic. |
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| The Lisbon 2002 objective requires constant hard slog and a consistently-applied approach across many policy fields, not an endless diet of symbolic and tokenistic rhetoric. |
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| But it does suggest that the scarcity of women in senior political posts is more of a problem than tokenistic treatment of those who make it there. |
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| But such measures have a tokenistic character given the reality that the mass of Uighurs are on the bottom of a newly reconfigured society in their own homelands. |
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| However, the involvement of people with HIV must be carried out in a planned, sensitive and responsible manner to avoid being tokenistic or exposing them to further stigma and discrimination. |
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| The danger, as Lansdown and Hart50 point out, is that children's and young people's involvement can too easily become tokenistic and meaningless unless adults learn to participate fully as well. |
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| This may be a product of declining trust in state institutions and a declining interest in civic engagement, which is seen as technocratic and tokenistic. |
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| At the same time, consultation may be perceived as tokenistic or superficial, and it can also be costly in human and financial resource commitment. |
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| There is a common fear among organizations of being tokenistic. |
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| However, the community sector has often found it difficult to be involved in government-led processes, as they are frequently excluded or restricted to tokenistic involvement. |
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| Governments, United Nations bodies and civil society are challenged to radically improve the way they involve children at both national and international levels and attempts to involve them in a tokenistic way are challenged. |
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| How can we ensure the public's response to this is taken into account and doesn't become a tokenistic exercise that will be dismissed? |
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| We need to stop this tokenistic practise of preferential treatment for the male of the species. |
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| Our own government claims to be at the forefront of environmental action with its direct action plan, but reduces climate change to a tokenistic sentence. |
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| Some campaigners dismiss the cover as tokenistic, complaining that Dunn confirms to the white stereotype of a pale-skinned, straight-haired black woman. |
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