Sentence examples for nominal subjects from inspiring English sources

Injustice, racism and the struggle for self-determination among descendants of the original Native Americans are the nominal subjects of a prison-cell installation by Rigo 23, a San Francisco-based Portuguese social activist and artist.

All this drama -- the messy and destructive arrest, the seizing of Fleming's things from his home -- occurs because of a stolen car, which may make one believe that the Queen's nominal subjects prize autos even more highly than the denizens of a Jerry Bruckheimer movie do.

Robert Hass's poems have always included their author's "real" voice, facts that one could check, tones recognizable from Hass's excellent, often highly personal essays (personal even when their nominal subjects seem to forbid it: a technical lesson in meter or an appreciation of Basho, for example).

This author's books are rhetorical equivalents of gas giants: their nominal subjects are the super-compressed cores exerting an unseen unifying gravitation, and the author's enormous erudition, wide reading, and kitten-like distractibility form the layers and layers of roiling, chaotic, atmosphere extending for huge distances in all directions around the core.

1758 - Oirats defeated by Chinese Manchus and Kyrgyz become nominal subjects of Chinese empire.

Although they were William's nominal subjects and, in Guglielmo's case, even related to him by marriage, they were loath to surrender Euboeote territory to someone outside their own families.

The nominal subject is pills.

And though wildflowers are its nominal subject, their garden kin are legion.

Meek's nominal subject is the selling-off of public services.

The nominal subject of "State Legislature" -- which was shown on public television in June 2007 and is now receiving a short theatrical run -- could not be less sexy.

Ms. Lippman's nominal subject may be prostitution, but her book is not about a woman who takes care of clients.