Sentence examples for has only nominal from inspiring English sources

The alaafin, now a traditional ruler, has only nominal sovereignty over other traditional Yoruba chiefs.

This is true whether it has only nominal visual interest, like an early-16th-century wafer iron personalized with the names of the bride and groom (which you cannot see), used for making large thin wafers at their wedding feast and then passed down through generations; or Titian's "Venus With an Organist and a Dog," on loan from the Prado.

Unlike the vast majority of Doctor Who stories, "Love & Monsters" has only nominal appearances by the TARDIS crew, and is not from their point of view.

She warns that many women who try to combine having children with top executive roles have only "nominal families" with whom they spend little time.

In 1570 when Thorláksson became bishop of Hólar, a post he was to hold for 56 years, Protestantism, imposed on Iceland by Danish rulers, had only nominal acceptance.

Andrew M. Lankler, Mr. Barone's lawyer, said in his opening statement that his client had only nominal involvement in the crimes charged and that all he did was correct innocent mistakes in test reports.

One of the greatest of the 9th-century Scandinavian warrior chiefs, he gained effective control of Norway's western coastal districts but probably had only nominal authority in the other parts of Norway.

Thus, discussions about the ontological status of the various elements of experience in the early Abhidharma traditions were already framed by the distinction between things that existed substantively (dravyasat) versus those that had only nominal or conventional existence (prajñaptisat).

Although Abhidharma philosophical views on the kinds of entities that have only nominal existence range widely, it is generally agreed that persons or individuals are always to be taken as nothing more than merely conventional designations established on the basis of the five aggregates, the domains of perceptual activity, and their respective elements.

One out of five was not associated with ACPA-positive RA while the other four (from two independent loci at chromosome 7) had only nominal association.

Instead, these three Myo1 motor domain mutants localized to filamentous structures at the cell cortex (green arrows in Fig. 2D-F″), which had only nominal, less than 10%, overlap with actin patches (supplementary material Fig. S2A).