How To Use Nominally In A Sentence
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It's nominally a documentary, but not necessarily a wholly truthful one.
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RULERS OF EGYPT (1811-1953) Egypt remained nominally a province of the Ottoman Empire until Britain declared it a protectorate in 1914, but from 1805 it followed an increasingly independent course of development as a separate country.
E. Egypt
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Nevertheless, the immense size of its larynx or thropple, which William dissected out and brought with him to England, seems to indicate vast powers of voice in this animal; but I am at a loss to conjecture why it should be provided either with this unusual capability of "blaring," or with the exceedingly strong whiskers that arm its muzzle, organs which, though nominally of little or no importance except in
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 367, April 25, 1829
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There are photographs of ‘jilleroos’, but while nominally these are the female equivalent of ‘jackeroos’, the important difference is that jackeroos are young men getting station hand experience before passing onto something better, while jilleroos are merely female station hands full stop.
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Kenworthy looked at the dejected cakes nominally protected from flies by sliding panels of smeared glass.
PASSION IN THE PEAK
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This, at a time when Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts seem to have been going nowhere, in part because control of the Palestinian territories is nominally split between Mr. Abbas and nonparticipant Hamas.
Lots to Think About
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For if Geras was not to sublate the realm of the social entirely to nature, he had to leave room for a nominally separate society which was underpinned by both external and human nature.
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Incitement to murder, by people living nominally under a country's law, should automatically lead to arrest.
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As my whole generation discovered, the world, whether at war or - nominally - at peace, has in any case kept moving in on us.
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If the murdered leaves a widow with children, this widow may claim the criminal as her own, and he becomes her husband nominally, that is to say, he must hunt and provide for the subsistence of the family.
Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet
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Figo, nominally a right-sided midfielder, reinvents himself as a striker, ballwinner or even full-back…
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The nominally independent Financial Accounting Standards Board defines accounting and auditing standards.
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The province is nominally independent.
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In 1783 she proceeded to annex the nominally independent Crimea and to construct a large Black Sea fleet.
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Mr Warburton said release of the minutes would expose external directors to undue criticism and pressure from the sectorial groups they nominally represent.
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There was _no_ other monitor who did not try to be of some use to his fags; many of the monitors, by quiet kindnesses and useful hints, by judicious help and unselfish sympathy, were of most real service to the boys who nominally "fagged" for them, but who, in point of fact, were required to do nothing except taking an occasional message, seeing that the study fires did not go out, and carrying up the tea and breakfast for a week each, in order of rotation.
St. Winifred's, or The World of School
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She possesses nominally the largest merchant fleet in the world.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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The province is nominally independent.
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What has happened to the other wing of nominally progressive politics is more surprising.
Times, Sunday Times
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Plural pronouns with nominally singular antecedents like ‘everyone’ have been a major battlefield in the grammar wars.
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What has happened to the other wing of nominally progressive politics is more surprising.
Times, Sunday Times
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Contemporaneously the coinage in Spain was 34 cuartos to one peseta and 5 pesetas to one _duro_ -- the coin nominally equivalent to the peso -- but the duro being subdivided into 20 _reales vellon_, the colonial real fuerte came to be equivalent to 2 1/2 reales vellon.
The Philippine Islands
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Nominally Elliot's goal was game over, but you could probably have said that at quarter past three.
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This change was occasioned by the opening of armistice talks, nominally between the opposing commanders-in-chief.
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Malaysia's government is nominally headed by the king whose position rotates among the nine hereditary Malay rulers every five years.
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The company could not indicate a person even nominally responsible for staff training.
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Specifically, the southern provinces will remain nominally Iraqi but be allowed to hoard their oil wealth, impose backward polcies of religious fascism and become an uindisclosed satellite state of Iran.
Think Progress » Brzezinski: Air Strike on Iran Could ‘Merit the Impeachment of the President’
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Incitement to murder, by people living nominally under a country's law, should automatically lead to arrest.
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The legislature and judiciary are nominally independent but remain susceptible to executive influence.
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The purple flowers, even when they're nominally pink and growing in the sun, such as wild thyme, restharrow, wild marjoram and pyramidal orchid, bring with them a kind of shadow.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge
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Nobel-prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz contrasts the American response to its economic crisis with the measures it shoved down the throats of poor countries during their crises, and discusses why rich-world double-standards ( "Buy American/European" provisions in bailouts that only discriminate against poor countries) contribute to a global disillusionment in the values that the rich world nominally espouses: democracy, transparency, and so on.
Boing Boing
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Nominally, at least, the debate in the Senate is about who should impose the standards.
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With the usual perversity also, the common standard "peseta," in which small bargains are struck on the coast, was omitted, the nearest coin, the quarter-dollar, being nominally worth ptas.
Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond
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A nominally progressive tax structure to some degree retards the concentration over time of wealth among individuals.
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So I say, not titularly, not nominally, not so counterfeitly, but the self-same in nature with the Father (John 1: 1,2, 1 John 5: 7, Phil 2: 6).
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
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Most recently, some 2008 Silver Eagles with nominally updated design elements were instead released with the Reverse of 2007, most easily identified by the U (of UNITED) which does not have the right-side downward stroke (sometimes called a serif); the 2008 Reverse does have the downward stroke on the letter U.
One Ounce Silver Eagle Bullion, 1986-Present : Coin Guide
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The burn executed nominally and was within about 0.4% of the expected design of the burn.
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Kenworthy looked at the dejected cakes nominally protected from flies by sliding panels of smeared glass.
PASSION IN THE PEAK
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Although still nominally subject to the eastern empire, Odoacer as a result became the supreme authority in Italy.
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Contemporaneously the coinage in Spain was 34 cuartos to one peseta and 5 pesetas to one _duro_ -- the coin nominally equivalent to the peso -- but the duro being subdivided into 20 _reales vellon_, the colonial real fuerte came to be equivalent to 2 1/2 reales vellon.
The Philippine Islands
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That is a measure of the chaos that has engulfed the party that nominally forms the opposition.
Times, Sunday Times
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But if the limb is nominally functional, then I really have to say that I question the logic behind its removal.
Because they can’t speak « paper fruit
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A nominally progressive tax structure to some degree retards the concentration over time of wealth among individuals.
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By embracing the "peace at any cost" mantra, they have essentially said that they can live with anything, reconcile anything, as long as things remain nominally peaceful (ie, no battles show up on the network news).
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Best of Coyote IV
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These may be nominally democratic countries, but state officials there are still regarded with fear, rather than as public servants.
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The charter recognized the Islamic constitution and its nominally federal system.
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Church, which had received during the Reformation the lands and moneys of the Catholic Church, was disestablished and nominally disendowed by the Act of 1869, but so liberal were the compensations allowed that they amounted practically almost to a re-endowment.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
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But this time the oppressor is one of them, a nominally Socialist outfit.
Boycott the Olympics & Read Proust Instead
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The current dominant mode of children's-book evaluation at least nominally disdains "didacticism," by which it means preachiness or sermonizing.
I agree with everybody
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It was in the year 2000 that some person unknown - or at least nominally unrevealed - walked into the British Library bearing under his, or her, arm a full longhand transcript of Trial Number One.
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New equipment including GPS and an electronic navigation chart system was put to work and the anchor and cable were nominally relocated.
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Although nominally only an advisory body, the council's decisions are viewed in practice as binding and ignored by the government at its own peril.
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Any delineation between the nominally public and non-public spheres is now a hair-splitting irrelevancy.
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Well, nominally anyway: in fact, comics Matt Crosby, Tom Parry and Ben Clark use the credit crunch as little more than a jumping-off point for their usual overstuffed ragbag of imaginative, larger-than-life sketch comedy.
This week's new comedy
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Ever since the fall of the monarchy executive power had nominally been vested in a council of ministers, but each minister was shadowed by a specialist committee of the Convention.
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This has been called the Epicurean Hypothesis, because Epicurus, while nominally admitting the existence of God, denied the creation of the world, and ascribed its origin to atoms supposed to have been endued with motion or certain inherent properties and powers, and to have been self-existent and eternal.
Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws
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Why is the Church, which is classed as a charitable organisation and therefore in receipt of tax concessions, not making the effort to find permanent housing for the nominally Christian homeless?
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But the political empire under which they are nominally assembled is perishing.
THE MANAGEMENT
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The governments in the 1980s were nominally civilian, but were dominated by the military.
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Nominally she is the secretary, but for all practical purposes she runs the place.
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The onset kinetics of this slow signal were slightly modified in nominally calcium-free medium, as were both the frequency and number of pulses during tetanus.
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nominally he is the boss
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Steve: Setting aside the debatable question of whether the Black Law Students Association is really the same thing as the hypothetical White Law Students Association, one way in which the parade of horribles becomes more exorable is that typically, organizations like the BLSA are nominally open to everyone, if for some reason a non-black student wishes to join.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Enough with the Ridiculous Hyperbole!
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Helena was staying under Thierry's roof, nominally in his care; his wife had introduced her to society.
THE PROMISE IN A KISS
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to be nominally but not actually independent
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The centurion was a commanding officer of a Roman army unit called a century, nominally a hundred foot soldiers.
Beginner’s Grace
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He was nominally in charge of his father's printing company.
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The company could not indicate a person even nominally responsible for staff training.
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In 1783 she proceeded to annex the nominally independent Crimea and to construct a large Black Sea fleet.
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And the process by which federalism emerges here does not seem nearly as important as the power dynamic that results: Once the protection agencies have arrived at a mechanism for detente or dispute resolution or whatever we care to call it, why should we not expect this same mechanism to serve to permit them to exercise monopoly power as a cartel, whether or not the agencies remain nominally distinct?
Understanding Nozick Perfectly Well, Thank You
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The water in the mantle may be contained either in high pressure hydrous phases, or alternatively as small hydrous defects in nominally anhydrous minerals.
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Thus on the liquidation of the Duplessis inheritance Mme. Derues would be entitled nominally to some 66,500 livres, about £11,000 in English money.
A Book of Remarkable Criminals
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Actually, the Inquisition reserved *all* its attacks for people who were, at least nominally, “other Christians,” since it had no jurisdiction over unbaptized persons.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Street Preacher Arrested in England for Public Statements That Homosexuality is a Sin
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He's nominally Jewish and "progressive," natch '- and my reply:
Israel At Level Ground
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The long robe of the allegoric figure as well as her appearance over water would be familiar to the majority of the nominally Catholic French nation as an allusion to the Virgin Mary.
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There is plenty of archaeological evidence for the persistence of paganism in nominally Christian Britain.
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Executive authority is nominally vested in the President who is elected by the legislature to no more than two five-year terms of office.
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Plural pronouns with nominally singular antecedents like ‘everyone’ have been a major battlefield in the grammar wars.
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The company could not indicate a person even nominally responsible for staff training.
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Nominally she is the secretary, but for all practical purposes she runs the place.
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The visual quality is nominally better than that of the original broadcast - nominally.
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Many films nominally aimed at children today are relentless, overlong, surprisingly violent and gratuitously mean-minded.
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This policy was the means by which the bureaucracy sought to defend its own narrow and selfish interests, in opposition to the needs of the workers it nominally represented.
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The church, while nominally Christian, is the home of a syncretic religious group that uses as its core sacrament an ancient medicine derived from plant materials known as ayahuasca, and it is said to induce extraordinary and profound visions.
Broken Music, A Memoir
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Most recently, some 2008 Silver Eagles with nominally updated design elements were instead released with the Reverse of 2007, most easily identified by the U (of UNITED) which does not have the right-side downward stroke (sometimes called a serif); the 2008 Reverse does have the downward stroke on the letter U. Additional Resources:
One Ounce Silver Eagle Bullion, 1986-Present : Coin Guide
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Not a dime of the money stays where it nominally is.
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There is a certain nominally democratic appearance to the board but as a functional matter the Chairman runs the show.
Matthew Yglesias » White House Should Fill Open Federal Reserve Board Slots
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Perhaps being nominally free since arriving in Karien had sparked a little rebellion in her.
TREASON KEEP
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These are emphatically the Japhetic nations, nominally Christians, but armed at this moment to the teeth to destroy one another in defiance of the Gospel which they profess to believe
Men of Maryland
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Dad, nominally a Methodist, entered Churches only for weddings and funerals.
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Given Goodling's divulgations about the immigration court judgeships 'being a part of the [overstrike] voter fraud [/overstrike] remake the courts plan, I would expect to discover, as more information on the immigration courts politicization appears in the press, other as yet undiscovered parts of the administration's efforts to politicize subsets of the courts which had been apolitical traditionally, at least nominally.
Balkinization
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Setting aside the debatable question of whether the Black Law Students Association is really the same thing as the hypothetical White Law Students Association, one way in which the parade of horribles becomes more exorable is that typically, organizations like the BLSA are nominally open to everyone, if for some reason a non-black student wishes to join.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Enough with the Ridiculous Hyperbole!
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Both parties have at least nominally committed to long-term emissions reductions.
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I don't want to rant but I am also troubled when I watch nominally independent films about Iraq that sell the war in the guise of offering "verite" reporting by soldiers.
If You Are Against The War, Take This Quiz
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If the show is glamorously elaborate, however, it's worth noting that the album that it's nominally promoting – 2010's Aphrodite – is really as near as Minogue is ever going to come to a back-to-basics record.
This week's new live music
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As Crary notes, "movement and time could be seen and experienced, but never represented" (34), and hence the camera obscura "is inseparable from a certain metaphysic of interiority: it is a figure for both the observer who is nominally a free sovereign individual and a privatized subject confined in a quasi-domestic space, cut off from a public exterior world" (39).
Smoke and Mirrors: Internalizing the Magic Lantern show in _Vilette_
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On the Chinese side, the Canton authorities limited trade with the foreign merchants to a group of Chinese merchant houses, the Hongs, nominally thirteen in number.
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My mother, while nominally Catholic, never insisted that I become Catholic as well.
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So I had my doubts about my mother throwing a charity gala kalooki night in my honor but nominally in support of the state of Israel in our front room.
Kalooki Nights
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This ‘new’ land is increasingly being taken from areas with deep peat soils and is thus nominally protected from development.
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That said, automation is also quite good at doing many nominally "high IQ" jobs.
A Childish Question About Immigration, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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He is nominally in support of affirmative action programmes for minorities in America and pro-choice in the abortion debate.
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The Socratic method is nominally retained; and every inference is either put into the mouth of the respondent or represented as the common discovery of him and Socrates.
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Although nominally unaligned nations exist outside these two ideologies, the vast majority of these recalcitrant states could never join the ‘other side.’
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He was nominally in charge of the company.
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She says it has rigorous verification standards, with a range of third-party experts who inspect homes and test materials to guard against so-called greenwash -- where any effort that is even nominally environmentally friendly gets painted with a "green" brush.
Ratings Proliferate
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It's austerely beautiful, save for one little cutesy touch: a cast of the artist's left hand attached to the bottom of the tallest item, nominally to help hold it up.
Abstracts (Subtle or Semi) And Bold Dimensions
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In modern side-saddles, the right-hand crutel of the pommel is made very small; but there is a third crutel added behind, nominally for assistance in leaping, but which is very useful in enabling a lady to keep her proper position in the saddle.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
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An assessorship in Chicago is worth nominally 1500 dollars per annum, but "everyone knows that in Chicago an assessorship is the shortest cut to fortune.
AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINA
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These outfits are non-hierarchical, decentralised, nominally leaderless and organised with militaristic precision.
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Evolution issues will continue to be resolved at the state court level ... in short, barring unspeakable terrorist acts or some sort of natural disaster, the next four to eight years are going to look a lot like right now, but with more science guys hanging around in government offices and nominally fewer closeted-gay sex scandals in politics.
Archive 2008-10-26
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I make no predictions about certain corners of the nominally-progressive blogosphere, however.
Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
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The guard that had accompanied him on his journey was nominally to express Farseer sympathy at the loss of his mother.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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In other words, the major German firms were subjected to tight political supervision and control but were still left at least nominally in private ownership.
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This program has shattered the very existence of the nominally independent statelets set up in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Quebec and Jews in a nominally Christian culture, these writers have nonetheless woven their resonant, abiding voices deep into the chorus of Canadian literature, as Homel is in the process of doing with his own remarkable work.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
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Songwriters and composers are only nominally compensated when a CD is purchased.
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The company could not indicate a person even nominally responsible for staff training.
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All these feudal justiciaries recognised only nominally the paramount authority of the king.
IV. An Awkward Friend. Book X
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Any delineation between the nominally public and non-public spheres is now a hair-splitting irrelevancy.
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The notion of colourspace explains why we should be able to do that, but at the same time it does so by redefining the shades he sees as distinct and simple things into different terms entirely — into nominally labelled zones artificially delimited within a framework of potentialities.
Archive 2009-02-01
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Seventy percent of the population nominally belongs to the Anglican/Episcopal church.
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The purple flowers, even when they're nominally pink and growing in the sun, such as wild thyme, restharrow, wild marjoram and pyramidal orchid, bring with them a kind of shadow.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge
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Each province has its own elected governor and legislature, nominally concerned with all matters not delegated to the federal government.
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The nominally, but not practically, five-seat Juke is built on the Versa platform and gives new meaning to the word compact when related to CUVs.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
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The tenrec family belongs to the order Insectivora—nominally the insect eaters, though not every species confines its diet to true insects such as crickets and termites.
The Song of The Dodo
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Ruling party President Vassiliou was elected as an independent, and his administration is nominally a non-party one.
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Recently we have also seen a few people nominally on the left citing things like the literature on regulatory capture – which admittedly is a very real problem – in support of sweeping claims to the effect that regulation can never do anything good.
Matthew Yglesias » Effective Government Matters
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The outcome is that adjectives expressing the more basic types of property can generally be expected to appear prenominally but not postnominally.
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I've noted before how the printed page tends to flatter the screamy rather than the brainy companions, and Peri, though nominally brainy, is in fact screamy.
July Books 26-34) The other Sixth Doctor novelisations
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Actually, the Inquisition reserved * all* its attacks for people who were, at least nominally, “other Christians,” since it had no jurisdiction over unbaptized persons.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Street Preacher Arrested in England for Public Statements That Homosexuality is a Sin
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As the conference was called nominally for the purpose of instituting certain administrative reforms in Morocco, President Roosevelt decided, in view of our rights under a commercial treaty of 1880, to take part in the proceedings.
From Isolation to Leadership, Revised A Review of American Foreign Policy
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The widespread practice by which lay owners of advowsons nominally appointed a clergyman to several benefices at the same time, while the income from the benefices remained almost totally in their own hands, became illegal.
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The Sultan was still nominally the Chief of Staff.
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She possesses nominally the largest merchant fleet in the world.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
