Sentence examples for more notional from inspiring English sources

At this point, though, any insurgencies are more notional than real.

In the case of Star, the threat to the Chinese regime turned out to be more notional than real.

The older Asher, searching for his true self, is a more notional character who never comes as clearly into focus.

But if actual violence is ever rarer and more notional, represented violence is ever more ubiquitous and graphic.

But if actual violence is ever rarer and more notional, represented violence is ever more ubiquitous and graphic..

Leftist politics form a thread in his recollections, but not a very substantial one, and his political stands seem more notional than deeply felt.

He has been a supporter of Ukrainian statehood and his independence from Moscow seems more than notional, to the dismay of ultra-Russophile elements in his church.

Instead of liquidation, they went in the other direction, adding some $30 billion more in notional value to the portfolio, hoping this would save them.

With numbers on their side, future generations of pensioners may have the political clout to tear up the system and demand higher pensions ie, that the workers of the time pay more tax.Although notional accounts are actuarially fair, some might think them socially unfair, because they strip out redistribution among pensioners: the better off pay in more (and so receive more) than the poor.

(And for good reason!) But he could have run for president, as various right-of-center voices have pointed out, as the candidate of a kind of pro-market populism — as a foe of "bigness" on Wall Street and Washington alike, as a champion of tax policy that favored families as well as entrepreneurs, as a champion of a more-than-notional replacement for the Obama health care bill, and so forth.

After several more weeks of notional deliberation, the Party leaders gave his third term their blessing.