Sentence examples for nominal protection from inspiring English sources

At the time Korea was a tributary state of the Ming, sending missions bearing gifts in exchange for nominal protection, and so Japan's challenge could not go unanswered.

Despite nominal protection from New York City's rent stabilization laws, landlords can easily harass residents to give up their apartments, or building owners may justify evictions by citing illegal subdivisions of shared apartments (which, housing advocates note, went conveniently unnoticed before property values started soaring).

Russia would encourage separatist sentiment by word, through the television newscasts and "documentaries" that were beamed into Ukraine, and also by deed: though it was unclear whether there were Russian special-forces operatives on the ground in eastern Ukraine, there was no question that the separatists had the support and at least nominal protection of the Russian government.

Needless to say, Shiite Muslims and other Islamic sects are even more despised, as they lack even the nominal protection as People of the Book.

This contrasts with the smaller, more endemic areas where both nominal protection and human impacts are highest.

Tables 13 and 14 show estimated nominal protection rates (NPRs) for major agricultural commodities since 1985.

The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, appointed by the president and Congress, said that the nominal protections for religious minorities in Iraq — including Christians, Yazidis and Sabean Mandeans, followers of St. John the Baptist — did little to stop violence or official discrimination in employment, housing and other matters.

The terror made for a macabre hide-and-seek in Kitgum, which was under the Ugandan army's nominal, queasy protection: at bedtime thousands of small figures emerged from grass huts and tramped into town to sleep outside the locked doors of the general hospital.

Although the law includes nominal privacy protection, it specifically exempts requirements related to ICE. "Every state actor" must report known illegal immigrants.

The nominal rate of protection is the percentage tariff imposed on a product as it enters the country.

For example, if a tariff of 20 percent of value is collected on clothing as it enters the country, then the nominal rate of protection is that same 20 percent.