Those held in nominally state-owned detention centres live in squalid conditions with no access to lawyers.
Although they are at least nominally state-owned, and dare not venture into critical reporting of the central government, the more adventurous are nonetheless peppered with tales of financial scandals, sex, natural disasters, corruption, even lawsuits against the government.
Known for his florid, profane speech and for a gigantic shark aquarium in his office, he enjoyed for years effective control over Ukrnafta, a nominally state-owned oil company that sold crude oil at below-market prices to Ukraine's largest petroleum refinery, which he also controlled.
While another oligarch, Vladimir Gusinsky, head of the independent Media Most group that has attacked Kremlin brutality and corruption, was arrested and charged with embezzlement, Mr. Berezovsky, who has put his media empire fully behind the president, strengthened his grip on a nominally state-controlled television network.
Putin and his former KGB colleagues own chunks of natural-resource companies, some of which are nominally state-controlled.
Now, though the country remains a highly repressive, nominally communist state, it has become one of Washington's dearest friends in Asia.
Although Clinton's fundraising arrangement nominally helped state committees, only about 1percentt of the funds raised actually went to the states.
But in 2006, the owners of Thomson Safaris, an American couple named Rick Thomson and Judi Wineland, paid $1.2 million for the property's lease under the name of their Tanzanian-registered company, Tanzania Conservation Ltd. leasing it because Tanzania, a nominally socialist state, does not allow foreigners to own property, only extended land titles.
One irony of this nominally Communist state is that the expansion under Hu has benefited the forces of capital more than the workers.
On March 15 , 1939 Hitler seized what remained of Czechoslovakia, reshaping its pieces into a Bohemian and Moravian protectorate and a nominally independent state of Slovakia.
We used HX to detect and characterize partially folded species that are populated at low frequency in the nominally folded state.
