Sentence examples for nominally in the from inspiring English sources

Because we were nominally in the same business, I had met both men.

When Marius was born, its fate was nominally in the hands of Jörg Jebram, EAZA's giraffe coördinator.

But authority over both night raids and detention is nominally in the hands of Afghans now, since memorandums of understanding were signed this spring.

The resignation of both Mr. Rodríguez Saá and the next in line under the Constitution, the president of the Senate, Ramón Puerta, left power nominally in the hands of Eduardo Camaño, the majority leader of the lower house of Congress.

The fact is that from Monday, the track operator moves from being nominally in the private sector to a public sector organisation, answerable to parliament and with a ballooning £34bn debt now on the national balance sheet.

The rest of the poem is a deliquescent series of landscapes and waterscapes, as the Poet pilots his "little shallop" down a river that is nominally in the Caucasus.

And though Dr. Gerberding was nominally in charge, the man pulling the strings was in a little room upstairs known as the Simulation Cell.

Or how it was that the person nominally in charge of the whole imbroglio – her – was the very last to know!

The decision to put the home secretary nominally in charge of the government's long-delayed alcohol strategy was taken back in March, when the then health secretary was deep in what was known in Whitehall as the "Lansley sulk".

Although a series of French generals were nominally in command of the siege operation, the man responsible for its success was the previously unknown artillery officer Napoleon Bonaparte.

Rick Wagoner is an unlikely candidate for a tragic hero, but he fits the requirements perfectly: he knew the prophecies and was nominally in charge of the last, best chance to save General Motors outside of bankruptcy.