1.   At a minimum, critics say, they would leave the Palestinians not with a unified, truly independent state but a few pockets of nominal control within Israel.

2.   Dostum recently invited two former associates of Hekmatyar to set up operations in the large areas of northern Afghanistan where the general exerts nominal control.

3.   Most of Afghanistan is under the nominal control of the Taliban, an ultra-conservative Islamic regime that the United States accuses of harboring bin Laden and his fellow terrorists.

4.   Recently Mikhailov set up a committee in his ministry to take at least nominal control over all of the international programs.

5.   Russian troops, accompanied by Chechen quislings sprung from Moscow jails, will win nominal control of Grozny, now pulverized by bombs and shells.

6.   The balloting is expected to hand the main Muslim party nominal control of many towns where Muslims were expelled by Serbs and Croats during the war.

7.   They cross the main roads, which are under nominal Serbian control, at night.

8.   Although their overwhelming military might has given them nominal control, the Russians have been thwarted by guerrilla-style attacks in and around the borders of Chechnya.

9.   Although most of Chechnya has been under nominal Russian control for more than a year, bloodshed has remained a nearly daily occurrence.

10.   Although the capital is under nominal Russian control now, rebels fighters carry out small-scale hit-and-run attacks almost every night.