Sentence examples for if notional from inspiring English sources

Facing uncertainty in Tibet when the present Dalai Lama (the 14th) dies, China now seems intent on controlling such a sensitive site.The second obstacle is the political difficulty both countries would have in persuading public opinion to accept big, if notional, territorial concessions.

Facing uncertainty in Tibet when the present Dalai Lama (the 14th) dies, China now seems intent on incorporating Tawang, the birthplace of the sixth Dalai Lama, and, it argues, central to Tibetan Buddhism.The second obstacle is the political difficulty both countries would have in persuading public opinion that big, if notional, territorial concessions were justified.

In the functional modelling of language, form does not disappear as sometimes implied in setting a binary choice between form and function; nor need it be notional (if notional means intuitive).

With yet more billions of years looming ahead they will be struck down with a debilitating ennui.That argument only applies if these notional immortals are also invincible, and therefore impervious to accident.

It was shown that if the notional reproductive rate R' is under selection, changes in the prevalence are proportional to changes in 1/ R'.

Local communist parties ruled in notional coalitions.

The reform relies instead on a reserve buffer fund, inherited from the previous system, and an "emergency brake" to reduce returns if necessary.Notional accounts are not likely to work well everywhere.

Finally, there's a sense that any firm line between painting and sculpture is, for this determinedly unconventional and unsentimental artist, merely notional, if it ever existed at all.

Several poems titled "A History of Western Music" punctuate the book, as if chapters from a notional opus.

What difference does it make, the authors ask, to lift millions above some notional poverty line if they still lack the basics of a decent life?

"The notion that the 'leader' has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a notional future paradise - if you'd be good enough to lie down under the wheels of the juggernaut - that sentimental and self-aggrandising rationalisation for brute force and cowardice I felt from adolescence was wrong".