Sentence examples for nominal title from inspiring English sources

Few fighters have embodied the nominal title of people's champion more completely than Manny Pacquiao.

He would have cemented the nominal title as the greatest player ever instead of having the characterization applied prematurely and, more recently, with good reason, viewed skeptically.

The nominal title of world's greatest athlete has traditionally gone to the Olympic decathlon champion, but rarely is that belt successfully defended.

For years it seemed Golovkin, whose nominal title of boxing's most feared and avoided fighter offers no remunerative value, was too good to get a big fight.

The 28-year-old from Oregon became only the third decathlete ever, and the first since Great Britain's Daley Thompson in 1984, to repeat as champion in the Olympics' most grueling physical test and retain the nominal title of world's greatest athlete.

Damone Hale, who has owned the San Francisco Rumble for six years, said he had seen scores of teams join the league, pay a fee of as much as $10,000, and receive little more than the nominal title of A.B.A. team owner.

Use post-nominal titles sparingly.

People might give a lot of their time to one startup while keeping a substantial equity share, and maybe a nominal job title, in one or two others that are just getting off the ground.

Despite this book's early cluster of sobering titles – "Nominal Aphasia", "Walking Stick", "Macular Degeneration" – Glass Wings is no study of old age, but a series of vignettes from a full life.

Before long, it was apparent that the star's title was nominal.

Instead they keep a tight focus on the arrest and its nominal cause (the full title gives it away) and what happened after Mr. Tucker noticed one Iraqi brought to his knees by war.