Sentence examples for Officially ignored from inspiring English sources

Earlier today, the boy's relatives offered a proposal that was officially ignored by the Justice Department.

Blackstone's Commentaries, reprinted in America in 1771, was widely used, even though new English statutes and decisions were officially ignored.

The Green story has been known to historians and locals for decades, even as the distillery officially ignored it.

She shows curiosity in countless aspects of Cuba (with the notable exception of its many outstanding writers, above all the late and still officially ignored G Cabrera Infante).

They saved works by Goya, Velazquez, El Greco, Titian, Dürer and Bosch from the ravages of war, yet were officially ignored for 67 years.

BBC asks, "How many have died in Iraq?" BBC World Service aired a useful analysis of the mortality issue, pegged to Iraq Body Count's demand that the UK government investigate the officially ignored issue.

A 1944 minute on surveillance of the Independent Labour Party, dismissed nine years previously as no threat, observed: "In the course of officially ignoring the ILP we have accumulated a file of 22 volumes about it".

When it was clear that the work was being ignored officially, a Pentagon analyst, Daniel Ellsberg, leaked it to the press.Both situations look like silly bureaucratic policies of the sort that get passed over with rolled eyes, shrugged shoulders and a gentle smirk.

The agency has vowed that, armed with this data,  it will make sure travelers pay the officially required but usually ignored 50-percent customs duty on goods worth more than $300.

The appraisal by the ambassador, Susan E. Rice, appeared to reflect a new level of pessimism about a diplomatic solution to the Syria crisis, now in its 15th month, after the United Nations special envoy, Kofi Annan, traveled to Syria over the weekend to try to salvage a peace plan he brokered that has been blatantly ignored since it officially took effect in mid-April.

In 1926, the city adopted an ordinance to number its houses, but the measure was ignored until it was officially repealed in 1940.