11.   London says it cannot see all-party talks starting until the IRA makes at least a token gesture of turning in some of its arms.

12.   Many in the IRA are opposed to making even a token gesture on weapons, seeing it as an act of surrender.

13.   Or it could make some token gesture of disarmament now.

14.   Resperts were barely home when Florida announced it no longer would recruit him, a token gesture, given his dissipated interest in the school.

15.   Something more far-reaching than token gestures by the white overclass seems to be involved.

16.   The IRA and Sinn Fein will be under intense pressure, including from the White House, to make at least a token gesture on weapons.

17.   The IRA, meanwhile, has been unwilling to make even a token gesture on disarming.

18.   The IRA is bitterly divided over making even a token gesture on weapons, and many in the organization see it as an act of surrender.

19.   The opponents said that capital punishment had no proven value as a deterrent, but that it was a token gesture that admitted frustration about ways to fight violence.

20.   The project seemed more like a token gesture in the direction of architecture than a passionate embrace of it.