Sentence examples for it was nominally from inspiring English sources

It was nominally controlled by Spain after being discovered anew by the Spanish galleon captain Francisco Lazeano in 1686.

It was nominally independent, maintaining an embassy in Paris, but French troops and monthly subsidies tied it firmly to France.

It was a city with its back turned against the land, one which barely inhabited the country it was nominally part of.

The Ryan XV-5A Vertifan used a jet engine to drive horizontally mounted fans in the nose and wing; it was nominally successful.

It was nominally intended to fight online threats, misleading accusations and defamation by forcing major social-network platforms to withhold certain comments in Germany if they are deemed illegal and offensive and have been flagged by users.

In 1906 the Chinese Republican leader Sun Yat-sen proposed that Hainan again become a separate province, and for a short time (1912 21), it was nominally independent under the name Qiongya Island.

It's nominally a solo performance, but the spirit of Evans looms large.

It is nominally a historical novel (it's set in the mid-seventies), and, I suppose, also a realist one (it works within the traditional grammar of verisimilitude).

Hence it should come as no surprise that "Jazz" has little of interest to say about the music with which it is nominally concerned.

It is nominally the story of the sexual entanglement between Y (Kim Tae Yeon), an 18-year-old schoolgirl, and J Lee Sang Hyunn), a timid-looking sculptor in his late 30's.

It's nominally a historical tale about warring Thai empires, with Mr. Jaa as the nobleman's son who must exact revenge for the murder of his family.