Lysander Spooner

To measure prices by a currency that is called by the same names as gold, but that is really inferior in value to gold, and then - because those prices are nominally higher than gold prices - to say that they are inflated, relatively to gold, is a perfect absurdity.

American Philosopher

Margaret MacMillan

Nominally left- and right-wing populists differ primarily in their choice of which 'others' to exclude and attack, with the former singling out big corporations and oligarchs, and the latter targeting ethnic or religious minorities.

Canadian Historian

Ross Douthat

I think true atheism is a rare thing in human affairs: Even in the most secularized precincts of Europe, a lot of nominal nonbelievers turn out to have all sorts of supernatural and metaphysical beliefs.

American Author

Mike Birbiglia

I feel like being a door person was like college in a sense. I could watch comedy on a professional level seven nights a week without paying, and they would pay me a nominal amount of money to be there.

American Comedian

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively.

American Politician

Paul Craig Roberts

Under Reagan's policies, inflation and nominal GNP growth shriveled much faster than predicted, throwing off government revenue estimates and resulting in budget deficits.

American Economist

Ben Bernanke

No one will lend at a negative interest rate; potential creditors will simply choose to hold cash, which pays zero nominal interest.

American Public Servant

Sam Hinkie

Nominally, I stated a company. Practically, it's a venture capital firm that allows me to be an investor in early stage companies.

American Businessman

Athanasios Orphanides

The degree of monetary policy ease should be associated with the level of real interest rates, not nominal interest rates.

Cypriot Economist

Martin L. Gross

Nominally, there is one executive for every eight federal employees, a ratio that would bankrupt many private industries.

American Writer

Nominal often implies authority exists in title rather than actual power or involvement.

Authority in Name

A nominal position usually carries less responsibility than it suggests.

Less Responsibility

Used for positions in organizations with a hierarchical structure to indicate limited function.

Common in Hierarchies

When cost is described as nominal, it suggests it's small enough to be almost negligible.

Minimal Cost

Sometimes used figuratively to emphasize how unexpectedly small an amount is.

Figurative

In linguistics, nominal specifically relates to words and phrases functioning as nouns.

Noun-Related

Nominals can act like nouns, taking on roles like subject, object, or complement.

Grammatical Usage

Nominal in finance means the stated value, not necessarily what's actually worth in the market.

Not Actual Worth

Nominal values are typically fixed and do not fluctuate like market or real values can.

Fixed Values

 They were simply interested in crushing our government, just because they did not want to have to deal with the architectural fault lines that were running through the Eurozone. And because they didn't want to admit that for five years they were implementing a catastrophic program in Greece. We lost one-third of our nominal GDP.

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 which our being and our consciousness is. So, the interface with cognitive science, since we need to come to that, it was, I suppose, the subject of -- we have to deal in such a short time -- with brain plasticity. The brain was thought to be more or less fixed. All the nominal connections, in numbers and quantities,

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 But importantly, mothers are being randomized, so some mothers are randomized to receive a nominal monthly cash gift and others are randomized to receive several hundred dollars each month, an amount that we believe is large enough to make a difference in their day-to-day lives,

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 that's institution as obstacle. Institutions hate being told they're obstacles. One of the first things that happens when you institutionalize a problem is that the first goal of the institution immediately shifts from whatever the nominal goal was

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 when he and his sons hacked to death five pro-slavery farmers with broad swords. In the end, more than 50 people died in Bleeding Kansas. While nominally still a national party, Douglas's Democrats were increasingly divided along sectional lines,

How one piece of...

 a nominal fee they're thrown into a pit and from that pit they go to the milking pit where you actually take the venom out of their glands and from that station they go to research where they're measured sex and weight and that

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Letting go of outdated...

 - Vehicle's reached maximum aerodynamic pressure. - Stage 1 propulsion is still nominal. Altitude 32 kilometers. Speed at one kilometer per second.

Sending Humans to Mars:...

 11m spacecraft delivering three more crew members to the International Space Station 147th everything is nominal