7 sentences with 'nominally'
Example sentences and phrases with the word nominally and other words derived from it.
• « Eventually, however, that authority was at least nominally in place, and the Roman archbishop became known as the "pope", meaning simply "father", of the church. »
• « In 380 CE the Roman Empire was officially declared Christian by Emperor Theodosius I and all important people had to be, at least nominally, Christian. »
• « Out of Charlemagne's conquests came the concept of the Holy Roman Empire, a huge state that was nominally controlled by a single, powerful emperor directly linked to the authority of the Pope in Rome. »
• « By 1600, virtually all parts of Central and South America were at least nominally under Spanish (or, in the case of Brazil, Portuguese) control. »
• « While Catholic monarchs continued to control the Church almost completely in their kingdoms (this was especially true in France), the popes were at least moderately successful in forcing bishops to stop living like princes, priests to remain at least nominally celibate, and Church officials to actually live in the places they were supposed to represent. »
• « Marx's theories are worth considering in detail because of their profound influence: by the middle of the 20th century, a third of the world was ruled by communist states that were at least nominally "Marxist" in their politics and economics. »
• « Thus, even nominally sympathetic male politicians repeatedly betrayed promises to push the issue of women's suffrage into law. »