Sentence examples for nominally so from inspiring English sources

Agrippina had Seneca recalled nominally so that he could educate the adolescent Nero.

A significant proportion of Muslims are only nominally so; many do not regularly attend mosque services, although fasting for Ramadan is widely practiced.

During the final bargaining with the British, Thibaw ignored his tributary relations with the Qing, yet China proposed that the Myanmar royal court be preserved even nominally so that it could send a decennial mission to China.

This is a substance nominally so very close to being made of the same stuff that makes up everything we see around us, yet coldly destructive of our way of life.

They buried the hatchet, probably for an undisclosed sum, but nominally so they could "explore interoperability".

(c) A developmental regime, although nominally so, fashioned by the unity government (1990-1996), which promoted marginal social and economic change while enhancing the potential for social tensions due to the differentiation in access and opportunities based on the state's recruitment of Soqotrans as competing tribesmen into a patronage system.

Why are the nominally sophisticated so misguided?

On her last visits to her father, for the regulation 45 minutes last July 6 and 7, she introduced him for the first time to her husband, Isaac Amuah, 30, a school principal in the nominally independent so-called black homeland called Transkei.

Little over a year ago Roland Dumas was president of the Constitutional Council, the highest court in France, and so nominally the fifth-highest person in the land.

The war in Iraq, like the one in Vietnam, wasn't popular; but the troops, at least nominally, were — wildly so.

Stephen Gilbert, a Lib Dem and so nominally a supporter of the government, wanted to know why there was no VAT on caviar but there was on Cornish pasties.