Competition meant that if the nominal owner of the capital didn't asset strip the capital first, someone else would.

The nominal owners were a couple Skilly had found in the slums of Minetown.

Bashkirs, the nominal owners of these territories, were not aware of the value of this land, upon which they tended their herds.

Walter Brooks, who had produced the successful Broadway show Shuffle Along, was the nominal owner.

The state has become, essentially, a corporate enterprise that the nominal owners, Russian citizens, no longer control.

Roy and Earle assumed control of the team, although their father remained nominal owner and team president.

Its nominal owner and hostess was a retired opera singer likely to burst into song.

He said a potential buyer would have to get the approval of both the nominal owner of the painting and the financial institution holding it.

Most of the shell companies that are the planes' nominal owners hold permits to land at American military bases worldwide, a clue to their global mission.

As realAlbert's assigned guardian and my nominal owner, Clara had legal standing.