0 used to mean that something you are about to say is also true, for the same reasons as what has just been said:
By the same token, people should not be separated from one another as a result of age-specific volunteer programmes.
By the same token, a realist must consider the anti-realist idea that security could in fact be a product of community.
By the same token, clinical contact is a necessary cross-fertilizer.
By the same token they are also easy to clean, again suggesting an association between the bodies of old people and of babies.
By the same token, different effects imply different causal antecedents.
By the same token, politicians who choose restrictive fiscal and monetary policies over more expansionary alternatives are not necessarily defying the laws of political gravity.
By the same token, the fact that human decision makers deviate from rationality in certain situations does not refute the fundamental assumption of instrumental rationality.
By the same token the observers justified their mission mainly by stating that their presence contributed to internal peace - not to democracy.
