Sentence examples for nominally hold from inspiring English sources

What that usually means is that they nominally hold pivotal towns, airstrips and roads, but remain highly unpopular.

He adroitly manipulates many of the figures who nominally hold power in the country, from the naive Eddard Stark and the rest of his family, to the spymaster and advisor Varys, all the way on up to members of the ostensibly shrewd and puissant Lannister family, ultimately hoping to secure his own titles and lands.

This paper examines the powers that fishers nominally hold and actually exercise in fisheries co-management in Tam Giang Lagoon, Vietnam.

Because the money is nominally held by the offshore companies, the tax code deems the money nontaxable, even if the funds are physically held in the United States.

In 926 Italian nobles, dissatisfied with his reign, made overtures to Hugh of Provence, the actual master of Provence, which was only nominally held by the emperor Louis III (the Blind).

About 4,000 rebel fighters and civilians left the city on Thursday, the last group remaining in the shrunken patch of territory still nominally held by the opposition in the city.

In fact, the biggest acknowledged overstatement -- reducing AOL's cash flow by about 5percentt -- took place in the third quarter of 2000, after shareholders approved the merger but before regulators approved it, when Mr. Case still nominally held the title of AOL's chief executive.

A few hundred feet across the horizon, an identical sand fort, nominally held by ISIS, blocks the way to the village of Baghoz.

Tancred also did not allow a Greek Patriarch to enter the city; instead, Greek Patriarchs were appointed in Constantinople and nominally held power there.

After negotiations, the heqin agreement in 198 BC nominally held the leaders of the Xiongnu and the Han as equal partners in a royal marriage alliance, but the Han were forced to send large amounts of tribute items such as silk clothes, food, and wine to the Xiongnu.

Nominally he held Valencia for Alfonso VI, but in fact he was its independent ruler in all but name.