In this nominally austere society, alcohol is consumed widely, even though it is illegal for Muslims.
Nominally, we're all going to be talking about this in September, how's it going?
Compared with 2007, federal revenues in 2012 are down 5% nominally, and down 14% after inflation.
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For example, their SA-12 missile, nominally an anti-aircraft missile, also has capability against tactical ballistic missiles.
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After all, California's (nominally) Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently signed tough global-warming and state discount-drug laws.
Voters also know he was Speaker of the House, and thus nominally qualified to be president.
Though nominally in charge of the launch, Murdoch was not in London for it.
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Even those that are nominally independent can obtain loans that are virtually interest-free from state-owned banks.
Although nominally democratic, Pakistan is not liberal in any sense, especially when it comes to religion.
While the country is nominally a multiparty democracy, elections have generally been considered a sham.
Corporations pay nominally for this privilege via an industry consortium called the Nonwovens Cooperative Research Center.
But if Montenegro becomes independent, it will be even harder for Serbia to retain Kosovo, even nominally.
Burma installed a nominally civilian government in March 2011, ending almost half a century of military rule.
AUC's military leadership, at least nominally, and appeared to push the group towards a break with drug-trafficking.
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Yet 95% of Kosovo's 1.8m ethnic Albanians, out of a total population of 2m, are nominally Muslim.
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Tattoos are proscribed by Islamic law, but like alcohol, they were legal under Egypt's nominally secular former regime.
Shareholders may nominally own such corporations but their share certificates are more like preferred stock than ordinary shares.
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These changes could just mark the start of a substantial shift in the now nominally-civilian leaders' repressive policies.
Within living memory, all public universities in California were nominally free (fees were assessed, but were comparatively quite low).
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Nominally the legal case was about the wheels of a prosecution in motion.
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The Military Council nominally falls under the main rebel umbrella Free Syrian Army.
The government nominally embraced the legality of markets in 2002, but in recent years has been clamping down again.
Despite coming nominally from the right, Mr Chirac has acted as a president of the left (see article).
Indeed, Kristol is infamous for nominally advising against mere vulgar political calculation.
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It's nominally a travel book, but really it's a book about the culture.
Though there was nominally a quality threshold, the successful train operators were those submitting the lowest bids for subsidy.
The press is nominally free, though highly partisan and often harassed by officials.
Given the moribund economy, financial markets have performed reasonably well, at least nominally.
Nominally, Israel accepts that it must stop all settlement building on both sides of the barrier and in East Jerusalem.
The main problem, he argues, is that even nominally capitalist systems have, for better and worse, elements of state control.
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