nominal control

collocation in English

meaningsofnominalandcontrol

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nominal
adjective
uk
/ˈnɒm.ɪ.nəl/us
/ˈnɑː.mə.nəl/
in name or thought but not in fact or not as things ...
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control
noun
uk
/kənˈtrəʊl/us
/kənˈtroʊl/
the act of controlling something or someone, or the power to ...
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(Definition ofnominalandcontrolfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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They are even theoretically liable to have their salary reduced by the amount of public money illegally or wastefully spent under theirnominalcontrol.
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To ensurenominalcontrolof camps by the state, supervisory personnel such as the camp commandant are government officials. 10.
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But for that fluke, we would not even have our presentnominalcontrolover public expenditure.
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The overlord would havenominalcontrolof the corporation which had never entered into a feudal homage arrangement.
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However, women still had to work under thenominalcontrolof a man for missionary work as late as the end of the 19th century.
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Nevertheless, the mansa managed to keep tax money andnominalcontrolover the area without agitating his subjects into revolt.
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Police are assigned to the capitals of the wilayat are under thenominalcontrolof the individual governors.
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Because of the chaos, some leaders increasingly had onlynominalcontrolover their (sub-) commanders.
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In all, some 50 nationalities had a republic, province, or okrug of which they heldnominalcontrolin the federal system.
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Even those latter-day kings may not have had more thannominalcontrolover the farther peripheral regions.
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