For example, in Nepal the gender mainstreaming projects were reduced to tokenistic gestures.
Au Népal, par exemple, les projets d'intégration de la dimension de genre ont été réduits à des démarches purement symboliques.
I really think it is very tokenistic to ask for some aid programmes for the area.
Je pense sincèrement que le fait de demander des programmes d'aide pour la région est une initiative de pure forme.
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.
L'objectif de Lisbonne 2002 exige des efforts aussi constants que considérables et une approche consistante dans nombre de domaines politiques, et non le recours permanent à une rhétorique symbolique et de pure forme.
Until such time as the political union is launched, we shall have cause to repeat year in, year out this tokenistic, meaningless ritual of discussing the state of the Union.
Tant que nous ne mettrons pas en route l'Union politique, nous risquons de répéter, chaque année, ce même cérémonial typique fait de discussions inutiles sur l'état de l'Union européenne.
Provisions relating to national parliaments, citizens' petitions and subsidiarity are merely tokenistic.
Les dispositions relatives aux parlements nationaux, les pétitions des citoyens et la subsidiarité relèvent de la politique de pure forme.
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