Sentences with phrase «token effort»

Former prime minister Paul Martin, who consults with the International Monetary Fund and other organizations, says that Ottawa is «making token efforts in Latin America, and effectively walking away from Asia and Africa.

While it's made token efforts in this regard before, Monster Hunter World is a total revamp designed to attract new players outside its traditional base of Japan, which has proven tough in the past.

For example, going beyond the current token effort at stimulating business innovation through creative government procurement contracting, like the U.S. and other countries, would allow Canadian companies to develop new products and processes for global markets.

But implementing more than token efforts of differentiation always felt like an impossibility.

But they may have another strategy: to avoid splitting the anti-Labour vote by making only the most token effort in the seat.

We didn't give it much of a go but no grand claims were made of its abilities by Samsung so we suspect it's a somewhat token effort.

Yeah, I've noticed if Nintendo doesn't want to do something they're very obvious in giving a weak token effort that seems rigged to fail.

They see how much work it is to craft a meaningful platform, to understand who their readers are, to do something more than the «best practices,» so they make token efforts and go back to waiting for luck to happen.

There is evidence Loblaw wants to source responsibly and, moreover, has made more than token efforts in that regard.

Chelsea make a token effort at tackling touts and fake websites.

«It's essentially a token effort,» says NAS study co-author, Robert Garrott of Montana State University in Bozeman.

Boden and Fleck are clearly aware of the problem, and they make a token effort to qualify their implausibly happy ending, but that's like moving your chips all - in and then feigning disinterest in whether your opponent calls or folds.

The journey back to Paris feels like a token effort, rather than exploring the true life of a street cat, that we would have got with more modern child movies.

The brand's twin pillars — the S60 and the XC60 — both were off slightly, and there was no other model strong enough to pick up the slack, although the XC70 (+6 %) made a token effort.

Or, of course, making a token effort for virtue signalling.

I've seen some token efforts but nothing that can stand up to the power of big business who does not want the return change.

But, within the first day or two, most puppies figure out that they can earn a cookie by squatting to pee — so even if they don't really need to go, they will still make a token effort.

Towards the beginning of the year British Airways brought down their long - haul fuel surcharges but it was nothing more than a token effort — 12.5 % reduction for economy class travel and 8.4 % for premium cabin travel.

Fairmont distinguishes itself by making more than a token effort to follow green initiatives.

broken up by picture - and - text «story», the most bare - bones of token efforts, and... there's little else to entertain players outside of online modes.

Whether EA's decision to shut the boxes down turns out to be a token effort only time will tell but it appears as though sections of the public have had enough and are genuinely worried about the effect that thry might have on the younger generation.

During this time of year both music and film pump out hundreds of themed albums and movies, but while many games make a token effort (with DLC and such) fully - fledged Christmas games are few and far between.

Not that both these issues are not important, Duh they are, but lets stand guard to the greater threat of politicians and «leaders» exploiting these causes for mass appeal rather than substantive solutions with real impact rather than token efforts.

You're not even making a token effort to answer your own questions.

by Craig Richardson, E&E Legal President As Appearing in The Daily Caller It used to be that responsible liberal politicians made at least a token effort to distance themselves from extremist environmentalists and their efforts to shutter America's energy industry manufacturing jobs.

The only reason they are making a token effort on the «global warming» front is to encourage Western countries to continue hobbling their own economies.

Unfortunately, to date Taiwan has done little to encourage renewable energy, offering only small incentives to produce it and only token efforts to encourage such leading edge technology as ocean thermal.

This must not be a token effort.

Also revealed is the lack of involvement of Indigenous peoples in the formulation of the policy, the token efforts to «discuss new policy directions» and the paucity of information or systematic dissemination of information on new policy or programs to Indigenous peoples.