Sentence examples for merely nominal from inspiring English sources

Those differences are substantial, not merely nominal or technical.

Ah, but the word has a connotation that makes politicians shudder: it resonates as merely "nominal; in name only".

Frankish suzerainty over Catalonia was merely nominal, however, and was completely rejected during the reign of Count Borrell (died 991).

Mr. Zuma suggested that the most fundamental of economic laws was merely nominal; remove the scales from our eyes and we see that so-called economic laws are a ruse invented by the powerful.

But Walker F. Todd, a former official at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, warned: "As a public entity, the Federal Reserve needs to take its custody of public funds seriously enough to ask for more than merely nominal compensation when it is giving up things of value to a bank holding company.

It might be thought that the difference between these views is merely nominal.

Thus, the difference between Augustine and Malebranche on whether we directly perceive truths or ideas in God may be only nominal, for Malebranche is not denying the reality of truths but merely reducing them to ideas.

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.

Whereas common-law courts had considered B to be the full owner, equity courts viewed him as merely the nominal owner and considered C the true, or "equitable," owner and rendered judgments on that basis.

For this rather substantial collection of players, there is no indication of approach or contribution – merely the nominal acknowledgement that they are lumped together as a matter of statistical convenience.

But this wager is merely the nominal engine for Rick's already fraught life to take a series of nutty twists and turns, many of which feel as if they've been concocted on the fly by director Tim Garrick, who adapted the script with Scott Russell from the 2000 novel "While I'm Dead... Feed the Dog".