All of the hardware makers, Google perhaps less than the others because it is only nominally a hardware maker, have sought to use software to create hardware advantages.

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It works as advertised, though we found it only nominally less complicated than the alternative method of dialing in a street name one letter at a time with the MMI dial.

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Both Otto cycle(spark ignition) and Diesel cycle engines(compression ignition) engines can be made to run on multiple fuels(petroleum, ethanol, natural gas) The cost is only nominally more than single fuel engines.

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It also means that university officials whose positions and salaries correspond to governing academic institutions will also be tasked with overseeing operations that only nominally fall within the scope of their other duties.

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The protesters in England were only nominally political.

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The thesis was that Britain's electoral system had led to an overpowerful executive that ruled the country only nominally through debate in Parliament, and actually by the ruthless whipping of subservient members through their parties' lobbies.

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Only nominally a social network in the conventional sense of the term, LinkedIn has grown from a company that seemed hopelessly mired in a business niche into a profitable powerhouse that is now indispensable to both recruiters and the rest of us who want to get recruited for a better job.

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Only one of them may actually join it: Zlatko Lagumdzija, head of the Social Democratic Party, which is nominally multi-ethnic but gets most of its support from Bosniaks.

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These developments indicate Beijing is taking a differentiated approach in carrying out its nominally tight property policy, while at the same time reminding investors that the government would support genuine demand only.

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