Sentence examples for In a notional from inspiring English sources

In her Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University set up with her husband Vincent, a political scientist, in 1973 her students were given shares in a notional commons.

Each VSC is modelled as an ideal phase-shifting transformer whose primary and secondary windings correspond, in a notional sense, to the AC and DC buses of the VSC.

With France doing most of the imagining — and successfully attaching a European nameplate to its own strategic goals — the Continent was cast as a pole of power in a notional construct called a multipolar world that was aimed at counterbalancing the weight of the United States.

Danielle (Juno Temple), who lives in a notional 1987 — which often looks and sounds more like 1978, but never mind — is promiscuous and provocative, speeding through life in short shorts and a cherry red Mustang, trailing a cloud of pheromones and cigarette smoke.

Would Italy definitely beat the Georgians in a notional promotion/relegation play-off in Tbilisi to be played in May? Rome remains a wonderful city to visit and Italian rugby will hopefully rise again under the coach-elect Conor O'Shea, but what about the rest of Europe?

Maybe Aiden and Simon can indeed convince Mancunians that spending a week's wage on tiny globes of celeriac effluvium and fairy-dust scatterings in a notional emulsion is not only something to aspire to, but a completely reasonable state of affairs.

Chiefdom, in anthropology, a notional form of sociopolitical organization in which political and economic power is exercised by a single person (or group of persons) over many communities.

REVISITING a hot topic from the middle of last decade, David Brooks of the New York Times weighs in on a notional debate over so-called "libertarian paternalism", the idea that, in Mr Brooks' words, "[g]overnment doesn't tell you what to do, but it gently biases the context so that you find it easier to do things you think are in your own self-interest".

Band, in anthropology, a notional type of human social organization consisting of a small number of people (usually no more than 30 to 50 persons in all) who form a fluid, egalitarian community and cooperate in activities such as subsistence, security, ritual, and care for children and elders.

To be fair, Lingeman can write wittily, as in calling the Lincoln Highway in the twenties "a notional rather than national road" and in saying of Lewis in Minneapolis society that "his impersonations, raucous speech, love of disputation, and unconventional manners soon mobilized tribal antibodies".

It works retroactively in art history — to a notional fork in the road a half century ago that via Rothko, say, led to the high-mindedness of Tate Modern and, via the wild side of Francis Bacon, foreshadowed the guttersnipe Y.B.A.s.