As The Jackhammer rattled my cage with uppercuts and hooks to the temple, I defended myself, but only made a nominal effort to punch back. |
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In an age when general staff pensions did not exist, the railways might well keep elderly staff on the payroll for nominal duties. |
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This means that the real wage deflators applied to nominal local wages can be very much dependent on the particular time period chosen. |
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Wages and prices fall in money terms, but the nominal value of debt remains unchanged. |
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Different formatives may be customary depending on the verb from which the action nominal derives. |
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As noted, the ideophone can occur with quotative go, with either a preposed or a postposed subject nominal. |
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Even the painting's nominal portrait subject, the artist's son clutching a favorite doll, slips rather poignantly out of focus. |
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The claims of his father's other heirs that he is entitled to the nominal amount as was at the time of his mother's death is insupportable. |
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The US party system is a loose confederation of parties drawn into a nominal two-party system. |
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If you are working with nominal or ordinal variables, the bar chart and the pie chart are two of the easiest methods to use. |
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The rules have stated that only the nominal face value of shares needs to be disclosed, but that rarely bears any relation to the actual value. |
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Furthermore, the recovery of the experiment hardware after a nominal soft landing under parachute allows for its re-use in future missions. |
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Another possible explanation for the failure of nominal rates to rise is the wartime moral suasion by the U.S. government described above. |
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Even the most stiff nominal tax rate would turn out to be a very meager tax burden for landowners. |
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A nominal fee is charged for a range of odd jobs around the home, such as mending dripping taps or fitting lightbulbs or smoke alarms. |
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The filter states include displacements from the nominal track, the cant, and the track gauge. |
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The late S.M. Shukla, an authority on numismatics from Mumbai, gave him a big part of his collection for a nominal payment. |
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The children pay a nominal 50 bututs a day and this provides enough for fish to be added to the sauce that moistens the boiled rice. |
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Foreign currency transactions are accepted in all modules, including bank and nominal ledgers. |
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These details were recorded in hand written journal entries on a weekly basis and inputted onto nominal ledgers. |
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An optional full nominal ledger is available and can be used by the business or separately by its accountant to prepare accounts. |
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But from the data we are receiving on Channel B, we can say that all of the instruments are nominal. |
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Received telemetry data confirmed the initial phases of the mission to be nominal. |
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Similar are sentences in which a pronoun or noun phrase with general reference is used instead of the nominal relative clause. |
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One tends to think of participants in a process as nominal entities designated by noun phrases. |
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Indeed, the nominal part of this prepositional phrase is not in the nominative case. |
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In spite of the existing low nominal interest rates, the real interest rates in the economy are still high, and also the credit off-take is low. |
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But, that really comes later in the cycle, when the spread between real and nominal rates narrows. |
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We agree that the road runs straight as it passes through the scene and has a nominal width of around 6 metres. |
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If the ambient temperature exceeds 20 degrees, the nominal length of the beam is longer than when calibrated in the laboratory. |
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All of these are nominal dimensions and we have to remember that there are always some tolerance spreads in brass. |
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However, some problems can arise when making wooden threads with a nominal diameter larger than about one inch. |
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If a nominal charge was introduced to defray the cost, I don't think too many people would complain. |
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The government provides electricity, gas, water, and bread at a nominal charge. |
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Also, almost half of those surveyed said they would be willing to pay a nominal charge for countryside access. |
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The hospital does not levy any charge for the donor cornea but charges a very nominal cost only for the surgical procedure. |
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The local jeweler will do it either free or for a nominal charge while you wait. |
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Drop fees can range from a nominal charge to hundreds, even thousands of dollars. |
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It will also be free to all existing members with a current card with only a nominal fee charged to those joining up after the opening. |
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Valet parking service is available at the main entrance to the hotel for a nominal charge. |
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For the nominal charge, individual cubicle rooms are provided as well as three substantial meals a day. |
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The detailed breakdown of the force contained in a nominal roll for 1882 clearly shows the change that had taken place. |
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During the criminal proceeding, the accuser's name and most of her history received the nominal protection of Colorado's Rape Shield Law. |
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There are then individuals for whom religion plays only a nominal role in constructing a sense of self and of group membership. |
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There was a retreat from direct colonial rule, as nominal independence was granted to various bourgeois national governments. |
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The sacking will also dent the reputations of most of the nominal Liberal and National sitting councillors for future council or state contests. |
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The government plays a nominal role in dictating policy because it cannot monitor local fisheries or enforce fisheries regulations. |
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Whilst he is the nominal main character, it is in fact on Mrs Loyer on whom the play depends. |
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Whatever their nominal service rank, they are the ones who deservedly carry the public's trust. |
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If the resolution is passed, the UN's role will be reduced to a purely nominal one. |
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His role, however, was nominal, and the group was actually managed by professionals. |
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The subject nominal is in the oblique form and the verb phrase lacks tense and agreement markers. |
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The past forms of nominal sentences are verbal sentences because of the verb of existence which expresses the past tense. |
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We are not interested in somebody who makes nominal moves on school improvement. |
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Once it became possible for the minister to be outvoted, the national parliaments lost even this nominal, negative control over decisions. |
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Traveling Indonesians will need a short period of adjustment in counting small change, whose nominal value is as low as one cent. |
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Catheters made from nanocomposites demonstrate considerably greater stiffness than those made from unmodified polymers, even under nominal loads. |
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As the Japanese economy stops shrinking in nominal terms, a domestic demand-led recovery could reawaken this sleeping giant. |
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If you draw your layout to the nominal size, you will actually be allowing for space between the stones, once laid, for sand infill or mortar. |
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I took one look at the form for that particular novices' hurdle, and advised him to restrict his bet to a nominal sum. |
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The capital reduction plan will not reduce the nominal value of the share, or its authorised or issued share capital. |
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Its nominal dates are 418.7 to 416.0 million years ago, plus or minus 2.7 million years at either end. |
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The seigneur would, in turn, subdivide his acreage to tenants who paid a nominal rent, cleared, and farmed the land. |
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In French Indo-China, the Japanese kept the former colonial masters in nominal command. |
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Iran has made the transition in the last twenty years from a nominal constitutional monarchy to a democratic theocracy. |
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In the 1770s the Mamelukes came to power in Egypt under the nominal overlordship of the Ottoman Turks. |
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Accommodations are available for a nominal fee in on-site teacherages with internet and telephone access. |
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The Heiner screw box and its original tap are for threads of two-inch nominal diameter with two and a half threads per inch. |
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Your local lumberyard can mill these for a nominal fee or might even donate to your school. |
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As such, nominal practice selling prices are higher than equivalent cash values. |
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The publicity secretary said people wishing to travel would only pay a nominal fee of K50,000 for a round trip including meals. |
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Designed for double-entry bookkeeping, our software has full sales, purchase and nominal ledgers. |
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Anglicanism still claims 70 percent of the population, most of whom are nominal members. |
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It is under the nominal rule of a governor general elected by Parliament to represent Queen Elizabeth II of England, the head of state. |
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The mid-terrace unit is held by the current landlord on a long lease with a nominal rent. |
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On the one hand, we can analyse the expression as a regular verb phrase, consisting of a transitive verb followed by its nominal direct object. |
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Its nominal charter was publishing, more or less quarterly, a humor magazine. |
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Most people think less about their nominal annual salary than about how much they bring home in each paycheck. |
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It seems to be, at this intermediate stage of nominal determiner grammaticalization, a lexical feature of indefinites rather than an effect of syntactic or pragmatic factors. |
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The judge's decision to award only nominal damages in respect of the rights appurtenant to them followed from his assessment of the valuation evidence. |
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Within the span of 20 years, fragmentary records indicate that no less than 18 kings and possibly one queen ascended the throne with nominal control over the country. |
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With central banks aiming to peg the Austrian schilling and the Dutch guilder to the Deutsche mark, the nominal exchange rates against the mark should have been stable. |
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Excitation and emission slits with a nominal bandpass of 5 nm were used. |
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He was only persuaded into staying put last summer, amid offers from abroad to treble his salary, by the promise that he could go home after this season for a nominal fee. |
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The trumpeter is the nominal leader of this highly musical jam session. |
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A number of insurers seek to solve the problem of festive underinsurance by increasing their level of contents insurance cover for a nominal period before and after Christmas. |
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Right now, though the intelligence director has nominal authority, the Pentagon largely controls the budgets and personnel of these two crucial spy agencies. |
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In 1822, assisted by the British, he sent an expedition to Mombasa, whose rulers, the Mazrui family, owed him nominal allegiance, but who were seeking independence. |
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This was made possible by the Department of Veteran's decision to construct a nominal roll of all who served in the Australian Forces during World War Two. |
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Our guides will be available at a nominal charge fixed beforehand. |
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Office space will be rented out at nominal prices to IT firms. |
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While the charges are nominal at government health establishments, often the cost of the medicine they prescribe is steep, especially for the poor. |
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For threads in wood larger than about one-inch nominal diameter, it is difficult to avoid incorrect threading, especially at the start of the helix. |
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All the piers had nominal diameter of 13 inches and were 25 feet deep. |
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However, this sort of construction seems to be quite rare, and I haven't been able to find any similar examples involving conjoined nominal heads. |
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Since injection into orbit the spacecraft's behaviour has been nominal. |
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In order to meet the reporting requirements of public companies laws, only the available nominal ledgers were used to produce published financial statements. |
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First he referred to the date of 30 September 1998 in the nominal ledger. |
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With little effective recourse, the Government reluctantly accepted the presence of the squatters and handed over Crown land for nominal lease and licence fees. |
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The Caliphate became a monarchy, first absolute, then nominal, controlled by oligarchies, feudal lords, warlords, tribal chiefs and regional chieftains. |
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Most former European colonies began their independence as nominal democracies, then rapidly moved either to single-party oligarchies, military rule, or both at once. |
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The centre is financed by a grant from the South Eastern Health Board, by the local Lions Club, by local fund-raising and by annual nominal subscriptions from members. |
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Whilst most landlords are well aware of the current situation in farming, many will offer a nominal decrease which will fix the rent for a further three-year period. |
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Keynes also makes an invalid argument, claiming that a fall in the nominal wage rate may not decrease the real wage rate but would rather increase the rate of unemployment. |
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An absentee pluralist on a grand scale, he farmed out his livings, usually for much more than their nominal value, and supervised them through agents. |
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This increase in the nominal debt level will be offset by reduced debt service payments for some years ahead due to the lower interest coupons on the new bonds. |
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And, although the sporty car is a nominal two-seater, it also features a rumble seat that accommodates two additional passengers. |
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Although Charles was the nominal landlord, taxes were paid to Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor. |
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Dimensional lumber is available in green, unfinished state, and for that kind of lumber, the nominal dimensions are the actual dimensions. |
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The Holy Roman Empire was a loose confederation of large and petty principalities under the nominal suzerainty of the emperor. |
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Latin had a large number of syntactic constructions expressed through infinitives, participles, and similar nominal constructs. |
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His salary was increased in a short period of time from 2000 to 4000 francs and his official duties were hardly more than nominal. |
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In general, the verbal system in the Romance languages changed less from Classical Latin than did the nominal system. |
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Unlike in the nominal and adjectival inflections, pronouns kept great part of the case distinctions. |
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The Vulgar Latin vowel shifts caused the merger of several case endings in the nominal and adjectival declensions. |
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However, modern bullion coins generally do not enter common circulation despite having legal tender status and a nominal face value. |
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Some were simply consequences of the greater level of nominal and verbal inflection, which meant that word order was generally freer. |
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The purchasing power of holders of nominal debt must not be put at risk. |
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These Mirzas organized loosely knit dominions, which were all under the nominal authority of the Khan of Tyumen and Sibir. |
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Mirzas also led the warriors of the Khanate of Sibir into battle and owed nominal allegiance to the Khan of Tyumen and Sibir. |
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Though there remained a nominal Zhou king until 256 BC, he was largely a figurehead and held little real power. |
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Although Anselm retained his nominal title, William immediately seized the revenues of his bishopric and retained them til death. |
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The real exchange rate is then equal to the nominal exchange rate, adjusted for differences in price levels. |
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Lumber's nominal dimensions are larger than the actual standard dimensions of finished lumber. |
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Some were simply consequences of the greater level of nominal and verbal inflection, and word order was generally freer. |
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Number system in Assamese is either realized as numeral or as nominal inflection, but not both. |
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Early Middle English generally preserved V2 structure in clauses with nominal subjects. |
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But the fighting continues, and grows worse, despite a nominal ceasefire. |
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Many times a party that has been wronged but is not able to prove significant damages will sue for nominal damages. |
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They are similar to nominal damages awards, as they are given when the plaintiff's suit is trivial, used only to settle a point of honour or law. |
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This is known as the peppercorn rule, but in some jurisdictions, the penny may constitute legally insufficient nominal consideration. |
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The nominal per capita GDP is higher than those of the larger Western and Central European economies and Japan. |
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Following federation, Britain's role in the government of Australia became increasingly nominal in the 20th century. |
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Lord Tweedmouth, the First Lord of the Admiralty, was relegated to the nominal post of Lord President of the Council. |
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Soon after her accession, Anne appointed her husband Lord High Admiral, giving him nominal control of the Royal Navy. |
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The former condition implies that, at a sufficiently high nominal interest rate, the economy will demonetize. |
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The French Navy used the same definition of nominal horse power as the Royal Navy. |
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As a Roman ally, it has been argued that the nominal goal of the Roman conquest of 43 AD to restore Verica to power. |
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This paper proposes a unified account of headship assignment in Spanish endocentric compounds with a nominal non-head. |
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Both cities seem to have suffered a decline as result of the long war, though Chalcis was the nominal victor. |
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For instance, numeric data are often represented on the nominal, interval scale, whereas value data are often represented on the ratio scale. |
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Even though the alliance still technically ran the empire, the Mexica Emperor now assumed nominal if not actual seniority. |
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Asia has the second largest nominal GDP of all continents, after Europe, but the largest when measured in purchasing power parity. |
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Noun compounds are commonly formed by combining two or more nominal stems or combining a nominal stem with an adjectival or verbal stem. |
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For example, certain lexemes can function in both nominal and attributive functions, cf. |
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Mexico has the 15th largest nominal GDP and the 11th largest by purchasing power parity. |
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A linear dynamic model is obtained by linearising the non-linear model around the nominal operating condition. |
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After achieving actual or nominal dominion over much of Eurasia and successfully conquering China, Kublai pursued further expansion. |
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The island is divided into five nominal regions and contains 34 prefectures, including metropolitan Tokyo. |
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Wasserman's suggestion of a scribal mistake or haplography would eliminate a problem and unify the collection of examples for nominal hendiadys. |
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While he carried the title of viceroy of Egypt, his subordination to the Ottoman porte was merely nominal. |
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The area had been little affected during the centuries of nominal Roman occupation. |
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This established the nominal supremacy of the Yuan dynasty over the western khanates. |
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This new valve utilises relatively small solenoids to control high pressures with large nominal diameters. |
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The Scottish Government owns Glasgow Prestwick, having purchased the airport from Infratil for a nominal sum. |
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The health care is governed by the 21 landsting of Sweden and is mainly funded by taxes, with nominal fees for patients. |
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The firm was particularly badly hit by the war and it was several years before anything but a nominal production of cars could be undertaken. |
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Until the 8th century, Frankish suzerainty over Alemannia was mostly nominal. |
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Today Italy has the third largest nominal GDP in the Eurozone and the eighth largest in the world. |
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On the whole, PPP per capita figures are more narrowly spread than nominal GDP per capita figures. |
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Another reason was that the producers wanted more stories about Thomas, the nominal main character. |
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Domitian's authority was merely nominal, however, foreshadowing what was to be his role for at least ten more years. |
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In the late 1st and early 2nd centuries, the Silures were given some nominal independence and responsibility for local administration. |
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This simple process allows us to convert nominal dollars into inflation-adjusted real dollars. |
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The world sorted by their gross domestic product per capita at nominal values. |
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Apart from the slightly high temperature, all the readings from the spacecraft are nominal. |
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Florida being Florida, all that energetic for-profit concerns had to do was set up non-profit shell companies as nominal administrators. |
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Mexico has the fifteenth largest nominal GDP and the eleventh largest by purchasing power parity. |
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Supply of ball valves of nominal diameter DN 700 full bore for mounting in manholes including gear and electric actuator. |
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In three lines the second nominal is used predicatively whereas Line 77 is a reduplication. |
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Old Norse was a moderately inflected language with high levels of nominal and verbal inflection. |
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The confluence of these two streams is the nominal start of the River Forth. |
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If the lanifice of Mende at least staggered into the closing years of the ancien regime, it only did so in a purely nominal sense. |
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He helped boost public morale during the war by extensive concert tours around the country conducting for nominal fees. |
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The weakening of unstressed syllables merged many different Old Dutch classes of nominal declension. |
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Taking a cue from the clausal domain, I will explore the hypothesis that these are the nominal counterparts of v and INNER ASPECT, cf. |
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The Nguni languages, such as Zulu and Xhosa, have a nominal pre-prefix, which is used with non-vocatives. |
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A suspense account is a temporary account in the nominal ledger that is used in two main situations. |
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Though this position is nominal and real power is assumed by the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of Vietnam. |
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Alma Duncan worked in my department, nominal ledger, in the accounts department. |
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Residents contribute to a National Health Insurance Plan through salary deduction and nominal user fees. |
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Census data provides eight nominal rather than 25 real wards, all of varying size and population. |
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In 2015, the Indian economy was the world's seventh largest by nominal GDP and third largest by purchasing power parity. |
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In nearly all cases, the monarch is still the nominal chief executive, but is bound by convention to act on the advice of the Cabinet. |
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By 1941, the United States was taking an increasing part in the war, despite its nominal neutrality. |
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Disraeli gradually became a sharp critic of Peel's government, often deliberately taking positions contrary to those of his nominal chief. |
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On the whole, PPP per capita figures are less spread than nominal GDP per capita figures. |
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The nominal voltage is 1.5 V, but the actual figure is usually higher. |
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On this chart, films are ranked by the revenues from theatrical exhibition at their nominal value, along with the highest positions they attained. |
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Now there are parallels in the nominal realm for which scholars have actively debated whether mass nouns refer to objects with minimal parts or without, cf. |
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In 1304 the three western khanates briefly accepted the nominal suzerainty of the Yuan dynasty, but in 1368 the Han Chinese Ming dynasty took over the Mongol capital. |
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Mark Johnston''s Shalloon made a pleasing enough debut recently at Hamilton and nominal improvement should see him win the SIS Live Maiden Stakes. |
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Having achieved real or nominal dominion over much of Eurasia, and having successfully conquered China, Kublai was in a position to look beyond China. |
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The misperceived notion about HEC being sold at a nominal price was also completely untrue, as there is a difference between the valuation price and the market price. |
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Thralls and slaves legally commanded no weregild, but it was commonplace to make a nominal payment in the case of a thrall and the value of the slave in such a case. |
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As John Harley has shown, it is probable that Byrd's parental family were Protestants, though whether by deeply felt conviction or nominal conformism is not clear. |
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Our analysis is based on Colina's and Pineros's account of Spanish standard nominal truncation and hypocoristic formation, developed within optimality theory. |
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Chi-square tests of independence for two nominal variables Value df Asymp. |
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They include complex compound sentences, numerous embeddings, nominal groups with post-modifiers, adverbials and adverbial clauses in unusual positions, etc. |
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During the Volcker disinflation, the FOMC interpreted increases in member bank borrowing as contractive because nominal interest rates initially rose. |
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Typically, that rough cut is smaller than the nominal dimensions because modern technology makes it possible and it uses the logs more efficiently. |
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Then the nominal rates of assistance from these measures are calculated for 20 agricultural products, 14 of which are classified as exportables and 6 as importables. |
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Although its morphological categories have been fairly stable over time, morphological changes are present throughout, particularly in the nominal and verbal systems. |
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It was sold to the RSPB by the Hoy Trust for a nominal amount. |
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The title of duke was reintroduced in Sweden in 1772 and since this time, Swedish princes have been created dukes of various provinces, although the titles are purely nominal. |
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It is a middle power and a major developed country with the world's fourteenth largest economy by nominal GDP and sixteenth largest by purchasing power parity. |
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Two signals having different nominal signaling rates, and not stemming from the same clock or from homochronous clocks are usually heterochronous. |
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But when the deflation is severe falling asset prices along with debtor bankruptcies lead to a decline in the nominal value of assets on bank balance sheets. |
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Henry V and Charles VI died within two months of each other in 1422, leaving an infant, Henry VI of England, the nominal monarch of both kingdoms. |
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Many conventional medical treatments clearly do not fit the nominal definition of allopathy, as they seek to prevent illness, or remove its cause. |
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The quantity theory of inflation rests on the quantity equation of money that relates the money supply, its velocity, and the nominal value of exchanges. |
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The real interest on a loan is the nominal rate minus the inflation rate. |
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The invasion was met with a nominal defence organised by the Falkland Islands' Governor Sir Rex Hunt, giving command to Major Mike Norman of the Royal Marines. |
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As with most remaining European monarchies, the position of the Spanish monarch as the nominal head of the armed forces is deeply rooted in traditions going centuries back. |
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In 1866, the Isle of Man obtained a nominal measure of Home Rule. |
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In other parliamentary regimes, the head of state is usually the nominal chief executive, though bound by convention to act on the advice of the cabinet. |
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They were dismissed and replaced by the Duke of Portland as the nominal Prime Minister, with actual power being held by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Spencer Perceval. |
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The nominal profit made was significant, helping to bring income and expenditure together, but it had a catastrophic effect on the overall economy of the country. |
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The enlightened Macedonian rulers scorned the rulers of Western Europe as illiterate barbarians and maintained a nominal claim to rule over the West. |
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Having defeated the warlords in south and central China by military force, Chiang was able to secure the nominal allegiance of the warlords in the North. |
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This definition encompasses both nominal empires and neocolonialism. |
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Yaska also applied this distinction to a verb versus an action nominal. |
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Historically, one of the best known nominal damage awards was the farthing that the jury awarded to James Whistler in his libel suit against John Ruskin. |
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Shares also normally have a nominal or par value, which is the limit of the shareholder's liability to contribute to the debts of the company on an insolvent liquidation. |
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The largest nominal fall in population was in respondents reporting as White, British, there being 8,146 fewer such residents in 2011 than 10 years previous. |
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The island totally controlled access to the Old Northwest, giving the British nominal control of this area, and, more vitally, a monopoly on the fur trade. |
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To measure the variables with interval, nominal and ordinal features and non-normal distribution, Pearson, Yuman Whitney, and Kruskal Wallis tests have been applied. |
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In In re Estate of Joffe, the decedent left her residuary estate to her surviving child and left only a nominal amount to the children of her predeceased child. |
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