Sentence examples for nominally set from inspiring English sources

Though "Pearl Harbor" is still nominally set in Hawaii, no Hawaiians seem to live there.

The film, though nominally set in the present, feels timeless, and Lisbon at once ancient and contemporary.

To that end, though the show is nominally set in Berlin, Moscow, Kiev and Stalingrad from 1937 to 1943, it has a spirit of universal lament.

Only the governor can call a special session, and though he can nominally set the agenda, special sessions can get out of hand.

The result is this furious and fantastical piece of junk, which, though nominally set in some town called "Chicago," could take place almost anywhere with roads.

The novel's first half, though nominally set in London, moves back and forth between Banks's present and his past in China with a dexterity that recalls Ford Madox Ford's classic novel "The Good Soldier".

Log hazards for individual trial arms are derived by nominally setting the log hazard for the baseline treatment bfor the trial to zero.

Set nominally during the Restoration, it is in fact again about the shocks visited on a nation witness to revolution and counter-revolution within 20 years.

Nominally, the game is set in 16th-century Constantinople.

And then, on Monday lunchtime, our nominally Conservative Prime Minister set out what appears to be a deep and meaningful commitment to transforming prisons and prisoners.

While the 16-man committee that wrote the report is nominally independent it was set up by the president himself, and contained members of the judiciary and the military.