His plea was shuffled off to the Treasury, nominally responsible for smuggling issues.
Considered a powerless institution by most residents of Soweto, the council was nominally responsible for developing transport, roads, water supply, sewerage, electricity, and housing.
Malcolm Jack, the clerk of the Commons, nominally responsible for overseeing MPs' expenses, spent £100,000 on redecorating his grace-and-favour residence.
Although New Zealand is nominally responsible for defense and for external affairs, the Cook Islands has nevertheless independently established diplomatic relations and entered into international treaties.
Not long before Peter arrived in Berlin, his aunt died of a drug overdose, and he became nominally responsible for her nineteen-year-old son, Franklin Vladimir Versailless), who has problems of his own, his sexuality among them.
Consequently, the products division is often nominally responsible for products that are covered by warranties, but the services department, which sells post-warranty services, actually delivers warranty-related support.
For that reason, home secretaries can sometimes be cut a bit of slack about something unforeseen like a prison escape for which they are nominally responsible.
That makes home secretaries, even more than anyone else in government, vulnerable to things happening for which they are nominally responsible but over which they have no control.Which brings us to the present incumbent, David Blunkett.
The Scilly naval disaster of 1707, in which a fleet commanded by Sir Cloudesley Shovell foundered, highlighted mismanagement at the Admiralty, for which George was nominally responsible.
I would suspect your internist has 2000+ patients for whom he is at least nominally responsible.
The first is that advertisements can appear in people's feeds with no indication of who is behind them; even when a name is attached, there is little way for the general public to know anything more about the person nominally responsible.
