Sentence examples for notional in from inspiring English sources

Evidently, unease has emboldened only those whose allegiance to the gridiron was notional in the first place.

The murder sets the story in motion by introducing instability: not just the moral wrong of homicide, a horror that remains fairly notional in most crime fiction, but the violation posed by the mystery itself.

Are notional in the sense that are intellectual constructs; they are ideal types to be used in a debate about the possible changes that could be introduced in a real-world problem situation.

Images were acquired with a field of view of 192 × 192 mm (matrix 64 × 64) resulting in a notional in-plane resolution of 3 × 3 × 3 mm.

Even now, some worry about structural changes in a counterparty with big positions in complex derivatives an estimated €10 trillion in notional principal in ABN's case.

Firstly, the strict terminology of aneurysm related mortality and non-aneurysm related mortality is somewhat notional because, in practice, mortality is rarely attributable to a single cause and therefore could be misclassified.

In that structure, candidates are allocated in their respective notional fields in a manner that the expert evaluates the relevance of a candidate/concept with respect to the relations that it establishes with the remaining candidates of the same field.

It works retroactively in art history — to a notional fork in the road a half century ago that via Rothko, say, led to the high-mindedness of Tate Modern and, via the wild side of Francis Bacon, foreshadowed the guttersnipe Y.B.A.s.

After other media picked up on the error, Taleb posted a correction on his web site in late June 2009 saying the $20 billion was notional exposure in future value of options, and the funds only made between "a quarter and a half a billion".

He had been an investor in NT's Working Wheels scheme, which involved notional trading in secondhand cars.

At the end of 2002, AIG's Financial Products unit had $14.9 billion in risk related to credit derivatives and a notional amount in its credit-derivative portfolio of $126 billion.