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- adjective Pertaining to or indicative of
tokenism .
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Examples
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Even if Diane Abbott's nomination is 'tokenist', so what?
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These sections aren't tokenist, either -- the text of the entire book supports them, making these sections feel like elaborations on ideas that have been prepared earlier.
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
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These sections aren't tokenist, either -- the text of the entire book supports them, making these sections feel like elaborations on ideas that have been prepared earlier.
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Finally, in regards to the intrinsic and historic anti-Semitism within the sectarian and extremist Roman Catholic IRA ideology, you quote ONE solitary tokenist Jewish figure, Robert Briscoe, as evidence that it never ever existed.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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These two had little or no chance of selection against Paddick due to low profile as would most conceivable white candidates but the accusation - from a Lib Dem activist - is that the slots were given to BME candidates in a tokenist way to appear to give them a chance.
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They thought that you were put in roles that were tokenist or exploitative of your fame - some similar grumbling around your appearance in the film "Amazing Grace," where you played the African, you know, abolitionist.
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As a result, the film's tokenist look at race is patronizing and falls neatly into place with contemporary stereotypes something for which Steinbeck himself was reportedly enraged at Hitchcock.
Archive 2007-09-01 Ed Howard 2007
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As a result, the film's tokenist look at race is patronizing and falls neatly into place with contemporary stereotypes something for which Steinbeck himself was reportedly enraged at Hitchcock.
9/30: Lifeboat; Amarcord Ed Howard 2007
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Serache said the DA had replaced fighting blacks with "co-opting" a few African people "as part of their tokenist policy".
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Serache said the DA had replaced fighting blacks with "co-opting" a few African people "as part of their tokenist policy".
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