Word: tokening
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...million Beetles worldwide, selling a third of them to the U.S. Since 1971, revaluation of the deutsche mark has lifted the Beetle's price to around $3,500, from about $2,000, and the car's unchanging look has lost popularity. Today Volkswagen builds only a token 300 Beetles a day in Germany for sale to sentimentalists; another 1,800 are assembled in plants outside Europe...
...beers after class. Frank's paratroop outfit had been awakened one night in 1958, herded onto planes, and flown over Berlin. "They were going to throw us to the Russian invasion as a token resistance...
...strikes me that the question of Christmas trees at Harvard transcends the issue of separation of Church and State. After all, the Christmas tree is a token of the relig ous beliefs of a large faction of civil society. In a pluralistic system of the Hegelian mode, public expenditure for Christmas trees would not seem to violate the conception of the modern state as the embodiment of the apex of the free spirit. I realize that this may be a questionable contention. But it strikes me that Ms. Reisman's point of view reflects outmoded natural law thought...
...excluding the minds of children. A child who obeyed his parents and spoke tactfully and courteously was a child whose behavior attested to his parents' Christian virtues. The parents had recognized sin in their boys and girls and fought it (relatively) and subdued it (mostly). By the same token, today's parents also strive hard to be found among the elect. That includes those who have read their Spock (in revolutionary days it was the philosopher John Locke who had all kinds of advice about child rearing) and have sought out the best psychological methods or techniques...
...strongest power, with an apparently limitless supply of resources. As a result, the nation must begin acting more circumspectly, with more self-control and a greater willingness to live with ambiguities rather than attempt to come up with clean-cut solutions to every problem everywhere. By the same token, an increasing number of our parents are finding it possible to set limits on their children, to ask of them as well as give to them, and to regard them more realistically-as messengers of hope but not by any means guarantors of a near-perfect world to come...