Mr. Levy, a lawyer himself, arrived yesterday morning at the courtroom not as a participant but as a spectator, there to witness what nominally passes for theater in the legal world: closing arguments in a high-profile case.
On March 29, the Israeli government of Ariel Sharon replied to the Netanya bombing by launching Operation Defensive Wall, pouring men and armour into the towns of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip that had nominally passed under Palestinian control as part of the peace process launched at Oslo in the early 1990s.
This might be putting them at a disadvantage when it comes to future negotiations, but it really shouldn't affect legislation nominally passed in 2006.
Barely a day passes when Mr. Medvedev does not pronounce the need to modernize the economy, curb corruption and reform the various bureaucracies that at least nominally run the country.
and nominally as Pass versus D/F/W (grade of "D /grade of "F /withdrew), were included in analyses to explore correlations between survey responses and in-class achievement.
This association, although nominally significant did not pass the correction for multiple comparisons and needs to be replicated in further studies.
The St . Petersburglaw was passed by a nominally elected city council and signed by an appointed governor.
Mr. Qiao said that under China's centralized political system, local governments, even Hong Kong's nominally autonomous government, could not pass or put in place laws without central approval.
But given the uproar, and the unwillingness of a nominally Democratic-led Senate to pass such a radical measure, the GOP plan to end Medicare as we know it by 2022 isn't going to pass Congress or become law.
Last we checked, the President of the United States was still George W. Bush, the Secretary of the Treasury was still Henry Paulson, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve was still Ben Bernanke, and Congress still had 533 members not running for President who are at least nominally competent to debate and pass legislation.
It has been 233 days since major-league baseball was last played in our land, and, even though this is printed on what is nominally Opening Day, many more days will pass before the next sighting of anything worthy of the name.
