Sentence examples for notional of from inspiring English sources

The desperation to be, or feel, as close as possible to the Kaaba has forced buildings to become ever higher, ever more ridiculously tapered, so everyone can have a view, however notional, of the sacred centre.

By stepping in and assuming "trusteeship", the government ensured that none of them lost their jobs.Liberals in Beijing worry that Mr Bo's campaign has shown little regard for legal process, much less the independence (however notional) of the judicial system.

Within this scope, the study consists of notional definitions of personality and personality disorders and the content and results of experimental design study conducted with project group.

Today's Islamists can be yesterday's Marxists, it seems: killable on behalf of notional constructs of law and order.

This introduces one of the central paradoxes of this notional age of peace and harmony.

ISDA was quick to point out that actual credit exposure was a mere 2% of the notional value of all contracts.This coyness is hardly surprising.

It points out that its actual exposure to derivatives, at $67 billion, is a mere thousandth of the notional value of the trades.

Inflation in the UK is calculated with the help of a notional basket of goods.

When an interest rate swap contract fails, the bank could lose 1% or 2% of the notional amount of the contract, when a CDS contract fails or pays off the bank could lose 100% of the covered amount.

(A grain is based on the notional weight of a grain of wheat: 1/7,000 of a pound).

As of June 2008, the notional value of all OTC derivative contracts outstanding exceeded $683 trillion $20.4 trillionn of gross market value), more than doubling over two years.