The state-owned television network, Imevision, is nominally autonomous.

Citizens of the nominally autonomous homelands also had their South African citizenship circumscribed, meaning they were no longer legally considered South African.

Though nominally autonomous, the Israeli-equipped militia fights in tandem with Israeli troops in the south Lebanese border zone that Israel has occupied since 1985.

But the government has not shown the same willingness to back away from the press council, which would be a nominally autonomous body with some characteristics of a union.

Mr. Qiao said that under China's centralized political system, local governments, even Hong Kong's nominally autonomous government, could not pass or put in place laws without central approval.

Since 1974, when northeastern Iraqi provinces achieved the status of a nominally autonomous region within Iraq, its Kurds have been divided.

He was hitherto the member of the federal Collective State Presidency for Serbia's nominally autonomous Vojvodina province.

Tertiary institutions are nominally autonomous, but the Ministry is responsible for their funding, and the distribution of students to undergraduate courses.

They are nominally autonomous or semi-autonomous, but often use some of the same branding and certainly have access to the resources of their regional and national offices.

Meanwhile, the nominally autonomous, de facto independent principalities of Serbia and Montenegro also sought to expand into regions inhabited by their compatriots.