Sentence examples for notional that from inspiring English sources

It was during the late 17th century, as the western conception of truth became more notional, that the word "belief" changed its meaning.

It looks at the benefit to a notional gene that promotes self-sacrifice.

Mr. Blair's advisers drafted a paper on a notional deal that could be defended in the British Parliament.

The true amount at risk, after cancelling out offsetting exposures, is only about 3% of their notional value (that is $1.6 trillion, even so).

The systems of human activity are described by Checkland as a notional system that expresses some human activity of definite purpose.

It is based on the reduction of the urban geometry into a simpler notional grid that retains critical information to perform meaningful estimates.

Not long ago, after the various financial collapses of the 1990s, the media were warning against the evils of trillions of dollars of "notional value" that are sloshing around in our "Casino Society".

The nonparametric procedures are generally free from such functional form assumptions and hence afford estimates of notional volatility that are flexible yet consistent (as the sampling frequency of the underlying returns increases).

That may sound a lot, but it's a big fall from the bumper revenue we've seen in recent years in the notional share that might have gone to Scotland if it had control of oil revenue in its own waters.

It operates around three notional pillars that uphold the theoretical element of the festival: Music, art, and revolution.

Findings from this study guided the design of a notional visualisation that would integrate all the information relevant to a patient's colorectal cancer screening into one screen.