Sentence examples for notional end from inspiring English sources

The notional "end of history" proclaimed by Francis Fukuyama in 1989 was easily debunked, but not so easily broken with.

* The royal romance that reaches its notional happy ending tomorrow has been described as a "fairy-tale" in 125 different British newspaper articles since the engagement was announced on 20 November.

Peck's wife's plea to him to win the case, despite her knowledge of his love for her rival, and her protestation that "if she dies you are lost to me forever" undercuts the notional happy ending here in a film darkened even moreby Charles Laughton's scene-stealing role as the grotesque judge, Lord Horfield.

To this end, notional yet realistic geological marine sand models were constructed, on an areal scale of 50 km2, to examine the effects of reservoir heterogeneity on the migration and storage of a 50 million tonne plume over a time scale of 1000 yrs.

The trading volume of the contract reached 90.1 billion rubles ($3 billion) in terms of notional value by the end of the trading session, according to RTS.

For a country with a traditionally more expansive view of public spending than Germany, that fact and the German call for new strictures involving the euro mean a blow to French competitiveness (through ongoing German wage restraint) that could signal an end to the notional parity of power between the two countries.

According to Fitch Ratings, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase were the biggest counterparties in terms of notional value outstanding at the end of 2006, and the market expanded substantially in 2007.

Beyond busy, shabby West Side streets, nine named, vaguely distributed locales — New Jersey, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Kansas City, Nebraska, Texas, Utah, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles — and the odd mountain do for what's memorable in a tidily rectangular nation, which ends at a notional Pacific Ocean.

He killed that one off by stepping away from purely notional cuts pencilled in for the very end of the next parliament, for which he never had a developed plan.

The notional value of contracts outstanding at the end of 2012 was $687 trillion, slightly up on 2007's $670 trillion (if a bit lower than in 2011), according to the Bank for International Settlements.The percentage of derivatives bought and sold away from recognised exchanges (in over-the-counter, or OTC, transactions), seems if anything to be increasing, from around 89% in 2007 to 93% in 2012.

Signs of divisions emerged from within the ranks of the armed wing of the Syrian opposition, with fighters on the ground repeating a warning to the Assad regime to implement the terms of the Annan plan by noon on Friday or the ceasefire – in truth more notional than real for the past six weeks – would end.