Sentence examples for Nominal duties from inspiring English sources

However, as governments are cutting space budget programs they are looking to hand over these relatively nominal duties to the private sector and redirect funds to long-range space exploration and science programs.

Adding only a small percentage of the nominal duty of VR results in much better operability of HIDiC.

A Franco-British treaty of 1786, placing a nominal duty on imported creamware, practically ruined the ordinary faience industry of France, and its extinction was completed for domestic use in the first half of the 19th century by the growth of indigenous makers of grès façon d'Angleterre (or faience fine).

We surrendered control of our government to representatives because it's better to have a few (ostensibly) informed individuals whose (nominal) duty it is to govern on our behalf.

If the population is sufficiently large and the term (w_t) is neglected, then the nominal duty cycle (D^{text {n}}) (and consequently the aggregate load) can be considered constant and is calculated based on the average parameters of the population.

They levied nominal customs duties in the city of Makassar, which made it a prosperous trading port.

All gratings were designed with a pitch of Λ = 4 μm and nominal ridge/groove ratio (duty cycle) of 50%.

In a one-sentence announcement, the official press agency Tass said the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the nation's nominal Parliament, had "released from his duties" Yevgeny V. Kulov, 57 years old, chief of the State Committee for Safety in the Atomic Power Atomic Industry since 1983.

These appointments are expected to be at a small fraction of full-time duty and to involve only nominal compensation through the research grant or contract.

The paper deals with the assessment of the correct design methodology that allows selecting the appropriate screw (in terms of reference nominal diameter) to be used in high duty bolted joints.

For instance, an aggregation of 50000 refrigerators with a mean nominal power of 80 W and a mean duty cycle of (D^{text {n}}=0.25) yields an average consumption of 1 MW.