For example, the practice budgets are in most instances "notional" (where the primary care trusts largely bear the financial risk of overspending) and not "hard" (where the practices would bear most of the financial risk).
Most modern money is notional: Wealth is stored on computers; payments are made electronically.
They are also ethnic Armenians, driven by Syria's civil war to a notional motherland most barely know.
They said the proposals were largely "notional" and most had not been approved as policy by Alejandro Mayorkas, the director of Citizenship and Immigration Services.
But even now, well into our notional summer, most events – including big ones such as Latitude this weekend, Reading and Leeds, V and Bestival – still have tickets for sale.
The murder sets the story in motion by introducing instability: not just the moral wrong of homicide, a horror that remains fairly notional in most crime fiction, but the violation posed by the mystery itself.
These delegates are notoriously prone to jumping onto the winning bandwagon, so their current commitment should be treated as notional at most.
Further downgrades would force a lot more holders to mark their paper to market, meaning to book it at a best estimate of its current value rather than some notional (and in most cases much higher) amount.
Despite building up their cash reserves and lowering their leverage ration, the Treasury's most recent report indicates that the notional value of Citi's derivatives is still at least 30 times the total underlying value of its assets.
