Loach presents his characters as complex but utterly failed by the system that nominally helps them, stuck in sub-standard homes with no money to pay basic utility bills, beaten down by shame and punished for fighting for basic rights.
While there are four other prospective Canadian pipelines that would nominally help ship the heavy oil across North America to capable refineries, each of these projects face significant bureaucratic and political challenges, making their approval unlikely.
So money donated nominally to help tsunami victims was actually used to inflict a "second tsunami" on them, handing over their land to foreign corporations and ending their historic lifestyles forever.
This helped the nominally secular AL government make the argument that only it can save Bangladesh.
The meeting was nominally convened to help diplomats better understand, and prepare to implement, the results of a signature project of Mrs. Clinton's: the first quadrennial review of American diplomacy and development, an exercise modeled on the long-time practice of the Defense Department.
And then there is a nonunion gofer, Ron, nominally assigned to help Jeffrey set up the shots of elaborately arranged fruit, ice cream concoctions, whatever, but who is likely to stumble into everyone else's domain with ideas they don't want to hear.
Although he was nominally a client, he resisted missionary activities and helped the interior Kandyan kingdom in its quest to get military help from South India.
"Holidays on Ice," Mr. Sedaris's nominally holiday-spirited collection of essays (think Henry Potter, not George Bailey), helped bring his jaundiced, bah-humbug sensibility to prominence a decade ago.
He helped do this by working with Vicente Fox, a nominally conservative businessman who was elected president in 2000.As Mr Fox's foreign minister, Mr Castañeda could at last apply his convictions.
Elsewhere, even nominally good coaching news was bad: Andy Enfield, the young coach who helped Florida Gulf Coast University become the first No. 15 seed to reach the Sweet Sixteen, had swiftly decamped for Los Angeles, hired away by the bigger and richer University of Southern California.
