His influence on us has sometimes been marginal, but more often it has been peripheral - or nil.
Daniel is warned that he could face a reduction or nil payment of his benefits for anything between four and 13 weeks.
He is maybe the father of Liku, a child - perhaps Fa is the mother, or Nil, who has a baby, the new one.
Xerox said fourth-quarter net income was $1 million, or nil per share, down from $382 million, or 41 cents a share, a year earlier.
Net income for the second quarter, ended August 4, was $5,000, or nil per diluted share, compared with $133,000, or 3 cents a diluted share, in the period a year earlier.
"The fact that these wounds follow the same trajectory, from back to front, suggests the position of the victim in relation to the person shooting was always the same and the movement was minimal or nil," the report read.
In lower animals, just as in plants, in which learned behaviour is absent or nil, the analysis of behavioral mechanisms is limited by the fact that many of the most fundamental cell processes are not well understood.
The white patches have shallow soils with low or nil crop development in most years.
If not, the effectiveness of the ITS in that situation is negligible or nil.
Arguing that Sir Paul McCartney and other pensionable millionaires are receiving free bus passes at the expense of lower- or nil-rate pensioner taxpayers wilfully misses the argument for universal benefits.
The taxman has freely acknowledged that each year will see several thousand more estates dragged into the IHT net, following a government decision in February to freeze the tax threshold, or "nil-rate band", at £325,000 until at least April 2018.
