Small investors in nominally communist Vietnam enthusiastically embraced capitalism after the stockmarket was created in 2000.
Those held in nominally state-owned detention centres live in squalid conditions with no access to lawyers.
One measure of whether unanimity is authentic is the number of separate opinions in nominally unanimous decisions.
He had preceded Mr Nizami as leader of Jamaat, which promotes a Saudi Arabian strand of Islam in nominally secular Bangladesh.
In fact, jihadis consider themselves to be in exile even when living in nominally Muslim states, and their exclusion from mainstream believers serves only to vindicate their sense of righteousness.
At a touch of a button the Baltnet system hooks up with similar radars in nominally neutral Finland to the north, and with NATO's own eastern defences to the south.
That, especially in nominally more egalitarian times, is some sort of testimonial to the short, burly and sometimes unpredictable man, with a love for rare cars, who could so easily have strayed from private unhappiness into the role of public joke.
Years of local advocacy in nominally democratic regions such as eastern Europe, international pressure, and initiatives such as the open government partnership have led to a great deal of data being available on demand from ministerial websites or accessible through freedom of information petitions.
It is interesting to note that there seems little of what we would call prejudice among animal societies toward nonstandard behavior, and yet there was no discussion of this judgmental and too-often-punitive activity that emerges in nominally more advanced human animals.
While Jakarta tweets more than any other city in the world, and sixty-nine moreion Indonesians — more than the entire population of the United Kingdom — use Facebook, a tribe of hunter-gatherers still dines on bears in the dwindling rain forests of Sumatra, and pre-burial rites in nominally Christian Sumba include tea with the corpse.
In addition to the illegal activities principally gambling and narcotics that have been the syndicates' chief source of income, they may also engage in nominally legitimate enterprises, such as loan companies (in underworld parlance, "the juice racket") that charge usurious rates of interest and collect from delinquent debtors through threats and violence.
