Japan had, late in the war, created a nominally independent Vietnamese government.

The judiciary is nominally independent, though political intervention into judicial matters has been common throughout history and arguably continues today.

The nominally independent Slovak Republic went through the early years of the war in relative peace.

The other seats went to nominally independent, government-leaning candidates, and to "soft opposition" parties.

Casinos had been allowed only in the nominally independent black homelands under the country's former apartheid regime.

The real audience was not in this northern city, near the border with the nominally independent Kurdish zone, but elsewhere.

The territory became nominally independent on 6 December 1977.

Repression by force in a nominally independent country became rampant.

While nominally independent, the communist government was for many years effectively little more than a puppet regime run from Vietnam.

At the beginning of February, his organisation, formerly a government department, was turned into a nominally independent company.