6 sentences with “nominal”

The Romans, however, betrayed them and seized the islands of Corsica and Sardinia as well, territories that were still under Carthage's nominal control.

The Church of England was the nominal church of the whole realm, and only Anglicans could hold public office as judges or members of the British parliament, a legislative body dominated by the landed gentry.

The Bourbons' greatest rivals during most of that period were the Habsburg royal line, who held the Austrian Empire, were the nominal heads of the Holy Roman Empire, and by the 16th century also had control of Spain and its huge colonial empire.

Although its nominal control of the Holy Roman Empire was no more than a political façade in the 18th century, the Austrian Empire itself was by far the most important Germanic state, and Austria's Habsburgs were often the greatest threat to French ambitions on the continent.

Despite the nominal requirement not to marry, many high-ranking priests lived openly with concubines and equally openly supported their sons, seeing their sons establish themselves as landowners or members of the Church in their own right and marrying daughters into noble families.

The Latin Church was distinguished by the at least nominal leadership of the Rome-based papacy - indeed, it was the papal claim to leadership of the Christian Church as a whole that drove a permanent wedge between the western and eastern churches, as the Byzantine emperors claimed authority over both church and state.