Sentence examples for was nominally based from inspiring English sources

There's a passage describing the obvious discomfort of the civil-service I.N.S. prosecutor supposedly in charge of the case against Lennon (which was nominally based on a questionable, years-old English arrest for possessing "cannabis resin").

Although his new position of Deputy Controller of the Eastern District was nominally based in Jerusalem, he and his wife initially moved to Cairo because of the Arab revolt against the British Mandate in Palestine.

Because the current MCL was nominally based on human exposure data, no uncertainty or modifying factors were used, so there is no safety factor built into the MCL for nitrates in drinking water (Johnson and Kross 1990; Walton 1951).

About 75,000 companies are nominally based there.

Like Capital, City on Fire is nominally based around a rather strained whodunnit (and, like Capital, there is apparently an artistic motive behind the organising crime).

If not a lot remains of the original choreography, there's almost nothing of "The Corsair," the 1814 poem by Byron on which the ballet is nominally based.

For their 2013 Cup cars, automakers have emphasized their efforts to bring styling cues of their production vehicles to the racecars on which they are nominally based.

Tyco, which is nominally based in Bermuda but has corporate headquarters in West Windsor, N.J., said excluding one-time items in both periods, profit rose to 74 cents a share, from 49 cents a share.

Ford tried Tuesday to set the Fusion apart from other factory-team racecars in the series, which tend not to resemble the production vehicles on which they're nominally based.

"Botanica" is nominally based on the unfolding of the seasons, and Mr. Pendleton and his 10 dancers try to incarnate the ideas in Maurice Maeterlinck's wonderful description of a flower that is quoted in the program: "The plant strains its whole being in one single plan: to escape above the ground from the fatality below... to enter a moving, animated world".

Tyco, which is nominally based in Bermuda to help it escape income taxes, was built into an extensive conglomerate during a late 1990's buying spree engineered by Mr. Kozlowski from its headquarters in Exeter, N.H., and offices in Boca Raton, Fla., and New York, where he also maintained residences.