Sentence examples for notionally important from inspiring English sources

Papers on critical issues, including, he implied, intelligence reports on Iraq, were not given to cabinet ministers; and the notionally important cabinet committee on overseas and defence policy never met, Lord Butler told an audience of several hundred at the Hay Festival on Monday night.

Transfer of loads from a notionally removed corner column to the adjacent structural elements can impose significant stress/deformation demand on structural elements supporting the corner panel.

I was sort of notionally a fan.

And in Bolivia, where voting is notionally compulsory, married people are enfranchised from the age of 18, whereas singletons must wait until they are 21.Proponents of mandatory voting argue that democracy is too important to be optional.

Notionally, the Qassam brigades answer to him.

It will only be notionally ajar.

Notionally, lineages are exclusive in their membership.

Notionally those of high rank had vast authoritarian powers.

"That's Peabody, notionally among the most economic.

He is not expected to announce Russian participation in or endorsement of a U.S.-initiated antimissile shield for Europe — the United States' notionally organic bond in strengthening the alliance's trans-Atlantic future — yet the Russian president's appearance as a guest on NATO's turf could be seen as an important gesture of real cooperation.

Now his subject is notionally wider and more austere: ideology.