Denmark, as heir of the Schauenburg counts; but the suzerainty of Denmark was merely nominal and soon repudiated altogether; in 1510 Hamburg was made a free imperial city by the emperor Maximilian I.
For the looks of the thing, this child was named, not after the father whom Manuel had just killed, but after the Emmerick who was Manuel's nominal father: and it was this Emmerick that afterward reigned long and notably in Poictesme.
So he never actually met my mother, and she married Emmerick, who was my nominal father.
It is in itself a decisive evidence of a contrary feeling in those nominal Christians, that they find no pleasure in the service and worship of God.
Let them beware lest they be nominal Christians of another sort.
Servile, and base, and mercenary, is the notion of Christian practice among the bulk of nominal Christians.
Inadequate conceptions entertained by nominal Christians of the terms of acceptance with God.
A statement as to the nominal share capital (stamped with an ad valorem duty of 5s.
These building plots were given as free property or, more frequently, at a merely nominal rent (Wurtzins) with the right of free disposal, the only obligation being that of building a house.
They were brought to nominal submission in 1783 by the Spanish general Anza, who killed thirty of their chiefs.
A share is an aliquot part of a company's nominal capital.
The capital which is required to be stated in the memorandum of association, and which represents the amount which the company is empowered to issue, is what is known as the nominal capital.
Only he would never share her, even in nominal union with her lawful lord.
The Eastern Empire hardly keeps even a nominal claim to the Dalmatian towns; the Slavonic settlements have grown into regular kingdoms; Hungary on one side, Venice on the other, are claiming the dominion of the Dalmatian coast.
Liverpool, by whom she was repaired, and fitted with auxiliary engines of 500 nominal horse-power.
This gross horse-power, it will be observed, is about equal to one-half a nominal horse-power.
The Russian armies were, of course, weakened by many desertions and by lack of discipline, so that their actual was much less than their nominal strength.
The apparatus must not be driven above its nominalproductive capacity.
The Sabbath, on a southern plantation, is a mere nominal holiday.
Sabbath, a nominalholiday Safeguards of the law taken from slaves Sale of a man by a Presbyterian elder Sale of slaves Savannah, Ga.
With us the officer so designated holds a nominal command of high dignity and emolument as a reward for past services.
But as regards 790 of these now famous weapons, it must be explained they had been sold by the government as perfectly useless, and at a nominal price, previously to this second sale made by the government to Mr. Eastman.
The cost is to be determined by the Club, but is planned as a small nominal sum--nominal dues for expense of correspondence and conducting the activities of the Club.
If there is no hope that such an arrangement can be made, it would be desirable that the intrinsic value of the silver dollar should be brought so nearly as possible to its nominal value.
There had not been one equal and universal increase in nominal values.
And no reentry, it was plain, could be so striking as a popular election to the second station in the land, nominal though it was, and in taking it to displace the very enemy who had been finally responsible for the wrong done him.
The suspicion soon arose that there was not real and available value to meet the demands of nominal value.
The influence of Neoplatonism, the baptism of multitudes of nominal Christians after Constantine, and the decline of zeal which necessarily accompanied prosperity, had all in different ways the same tendency.
Nominal marriages, in which the partners agreed to shun the marriage bed, became not uncommon.
Donaldson, of Sydney, who had bought for some nominal price at the Government sale in 1837.
I know quite well that my brother gave it to your father--or rather he sold it to him for a nominal sum.
The North Sea Fleet is seventeen units under nominal strength.
On the other hand, as a counterbalancing advantage, a manager may pledge his receipts by telegraph, and one man may at any time send money to another by the same means at quite a nominal charge.
The permanent hold that Dvôrák's symphony has gained is due to an intrinsic merit of art and sincere sentiment; it has little to do with the nominaltitle or purpose.
School lands have sometimes been sold at a nominal price to individuals who have reaped the profit, whereas the lands might have been so administered by the states as to have brought large returns for educational purposes.
There was to be complete separation of the sexes, with the one nominal exception in favour of aged married couples who demanded it.
So far as these children were concerned (though nominal fees continued to be paid out of the poor rate until 1891), the provision of schooling became merged in the general communistic provision of schooling for the whole population.
The headstrong young man fled from his father's court and took refuge with Philip, the French king, William's nominal suzerain.
Bute was made one of the Secretaries of State, and at once began to show a great independence of the nominal prime minister.
Their nominal chief was now William Bentinck, Duke of Portland, an aged man, one of the Whigs who had been made Tories by the French Revolution.
Beyond its bounds he now had a nominal suzerainty over three Danish states, instead of four English ones.
Wellesley forced the Nizam to dismiss his French officers, and allied himself with the Peishwah, the nominal head of the Mahratta confederacy, against the other chiefs of that nation.
In return for this, Abdul Hamid placed the island of Cyprus in British hands, though retaining his nominal suzerainty over it.
Hence came into existence the "Coalition Ministry" of April, 1783, in which the followers of North and Fox sat together under the nominal control of the Duke of Portland, one of the chiefs of the old Whig families.
The nominal casus belli in the East was a trivial quarrel between Greek and Latin monks in Palestine.
But their troubles made them cautious of adding civil war to foreign invasion, and so Aethelwulf was allowed to keep his father's nominal suzerainty over the whole of England.
He was succeeded by a coalition of all the Whig factions, under the nominal premiership of Lord Wilmington, the greatest nonentity in the whole cabinet.
