Sentence examples for nominal possession from inspiring English sources

In 197 bce Rome declared it free but gave it over in 166 bce to Athens, which retained nominal possession of the island until the time of the Roman emperor Septimius Severus (193 211 ce).

The Knights prevented the king from receiving his crown from the pope and, after obtaining nominal possession of two-thirds of the country from the bishop of Courland (1234), subjugated the Curonians (1269) and ruled them as their feudal lords for the next 300 years.

Nominal possession, as in his-house the man for 'the man's house,' e.g., Pipil (Uto-Aztecan) i-chan ne taakat, literally 'his-house the man.' Relational nouns, locative expressions composed of a noun root and possessive pronoun (usually a suffix or prefix), of the form my-head for 'on me,' as in K'iche' (Mayan) chi-uu-pam lee kaxa 'in the box,' (literally 'at-its-stomach the box').

Current legislation allows judges to sentence people up to five years for nominal possession, and up to ten years for possession near a recreational area (public use spaces like parks and schools).

Mr Blunkett has already announced that he plans to downgrade cannabis to a Class C drug, which means the penalties for possession becoming nominal.

With respect to morphology, Tungus languages, but not Manchu, have a highly developed system of nominal suffixes which indicate possession (Oroqen murin-iw 'horse-my,' murin-iy 'horse-your,' murin-in 'horse-his,' etc.).

The dog has since destroyed three of my blankets, my hot water bottle and a brocade for my hair, torn the zipper from my favourite dressing gown and succeeded in the relentless pillage of books, papers, bills, iPhone cords and household plants in my nominal (it seems, temporary) possession.

With respect to morphology, Tungus languages, but not Manchu, have a highly developed system of nominal suffixes which indicate possession (Oroqen murin-iw 'horse-my,' murin-iy 'horse-your,' murin-in 'horse-his,' etc).. Similarly, the use of case inflections is more prominent in Tungus.

Many of his assets were auctioned and purchased by friends, who donated or rented his possessions to him for a nominal fee.

The granting of cities to female family members was a common custom at the time, and aside from Heraclea Pontica, Arsinoe's possession of any additional cities was likely either nominal or entailed only the receipt of revenues.

Some of this property remained in the hands of local peoples, but large tracts in excess of the 500-iugera limit were occupied by wealthy Romans, who were legally possessores (i.e., in possession of the land, although not its owners) and as such paid a nominal rent to the Roman state.