Sentence examples for notional idea from inspiring English sources

Determined to unravel the truth about human happiness, and with only a notional idea of which way to go -- basically west -- he vanished, subversively, into Asia.

From there, that same sense of slavish devotion to a notional idea of what audiences wanted would regularly yield what a fine post at The House Next Door this week called "a retelling of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde impressed upon the history of cinema".

The face-tracking technology at the center of this embodied interface was embedded into the design so that learners could progress from having a notional idea of the spatial operation of changing perspective to having direct experience of moving between multiple structural diagrams.

Unsurprisingly, the Residential Landlords Association didn't like this notional idea even one bit, with a spokesperson saying that lower or controlled rents would be a "disaster for tenants" (somehow????) and that actually holding landlords accountable or in any way responsible would lead to a "reduction in the quality of rented housing available".

Andrew Natsios, the USAID administrator, says he has "notional ideas" what to do with the rest.

He opens a few drawers, and takes out roughs and notional ideas for the new portraits, and talks about some of the people he has met.

In other words, they can contribute to creating an environment in which traditional investors in notional ideas, such as large corporates, governments and charitable trusts in partnership with universities and dedicated research centers, can be assured that proven ideas will be picked up by next-stage investors who invest in testing an idea and developing it for commercial exploitation.

But with positions in credit-default and interest-rate swaps worth a notional $10 trillion, the idea of its sudden collapse was chilling and nobody wanted to put that foreboding to the test.

Sweden pioneered the idea of "notional accounts".

But that idea is notional, while heavy industry's shift to China is inexorable.

By putting rights back at the centre of the enterprise and by re-invoking the old idea of a notional social contract among putative equals, Mr Rawls did much to free political theory in America and Britain from apparent cul-de-sacs.