Well, on balance, we should prefer politics to decisions that are notionally "depoliticised", because, if politics sounds like a dirty word, try substituting "democracy" instead.
BIS spends £4.6bn on research, which is notionally ringfenced: because of the widespread political consensus about the importance of research, it has thus far been protected against cuts.
Certainly the fear is it will cause the cost of borrowing to increase because notionally (if not in any real world sense) we would be considered more risky.
"It notionally could apply because the definition of cyber-bullying as you know is so broad that potentially it could apply," MacKay said over the phone Wednesday.
Although the money is financed at UK level, that debt counts as an asset on the Scottish government's books because it is notionally owed to it by hundreds of thousands of former students, as its share of the UK student funding pot.
The Giorgio Morandis are knockouts: only notionally about time but definitely time-consuming, because once you start looking at them, you will be disinclined to stop.
That is why, in the beginning, they look in our direction; notionally, they are pleading with a magistrate, because we hear his voice as he quizzes them, but they are speaking, with equal fervor, to us.
The president brought the idea up more notionally than concretely, and it went nowhere, aides said, because the Russians were highly resistant to any intrusion in Syria's internal affairs.
When Taiwan liberalised in the late 1980s, the opposition had no hope of winning elections because a majority of seats were reserved for delegates notionally representing seats in mainland China.
Angelina Jolie is an intelligent performer with sexiness and style, but there is the sinking feeling that she won best supporting actress for Girl, Interrupted because she plays someone in a psychiatric hospital - and playing someone (notionally) mentally ill can often be a free ride to acting plaudits.
