Sentence examples for not notional from inspiring English sources

Let me tell you, those fears are not notional.

He says that he longed to "do something real, not notional".

The risk posed by Australians fighting abroad was "a real not a notional or fanciful" concern, Brandis said.

But they were not the notional stars of the film.

The anti-immigrant defenders of Europe, not the notional crowds of immigrants waiting to invade it, are the true threat to Europe.

Forget about those telephone-number figures: no principal amount is exchanged in a swap, so what matters is not the "notional" amount at risk but the cost of replacing the swaps a far lower number.

Williams's "relativism of distance" says ethical appraisals are appropriate in real confrontations, but not in notional ones.

"Religion as defined by the great sages of India, China, and the Middle East was not a notional activity but a practical one; it did not require belief in a set of doctrines but rather hard, disciplined work, without which any religious teaching remained opaque and incredible".

Only one person appears to be threatening to pin, and it certainly isn't our notional megastar.

It's time to count real delegates, not measure some notional concept of momentum.

"He's not a very notional leader," Romney's campaign spokesman told an Iowa newspaper in 2007.