Sentence examples for was notionally from inspiring English sources

Thus, while descent through the male line was notionally preferred, in practice the descent system was often bilateral traced through either or both parents.

Why May can rebrand herself as passionately pro-Brexit – "our laws will be made not in Brussels but Westminster" – even though she was notionally on the remain side.

For what it's worth, his new song, "Home," was notionally more modern than Ms. Sanchez's, though only in that it recalled recent artists — say, the Glen Hansard of "Once" — who in turn recalled the folk-rock of the late 1960s.

Although the debate was notionally about the arrangements for women bishops – the principle having long since been conceded – the real objection came from conservative evangelicals who had not conceded the principle and never will.

After a period in Dublin, where he was notionally attached to Trinity College, and where he met Anna (they married at 23), he moved to London and eventually to Hackney.

The gifted architect and designer Thomas Jeckyll had lined it with latticed walnut shelving, in a style that was notionally Oriental, to accommodate Leyland's porcelains, and had hung, over the fireplace, his early Whistler painting of a celebrated beauty of the day, Christina Spartali, as "The Princess from the Land of Porcelain" (1864-65).

I get it that a group of teen-agers singing a choral arrangement of "Rehab" is notionally funny; unfortunately, watching it is notional fun.

It will only be notionally ajar.

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

Both sides in this war are notionally Christian.

Those that were notionally "floating" were in practice managed by central banks to mimic a peg.