Sentence examples for as a third official from inspiring English sources

Bengali and Urdu were made the national languages of East and West Pakistan, respectively, but English was adopted as a third official language and functioned as the medium of interstate communication.

5 The adoption of English as a third official language, emphasising its role as a language that connects us to the world, including the connection between international companies and professionals and the administration.

Andrzej Czuma, the justice minister, and Grzegorz Schetyna, who is both interior minister and deputy prime minister, as well as a third official, a deputy in the Economy Ministry, offered their resignations, which Mr. Tusk accepted, he said at a news conference on Wednesday.

(On Monday, a third official resigned as well).

Ljubco Georgievski, the prime minister, has described as "brutal" the western negotiators' vigorous support for the acceptance of Albanian as a second official language.

Page A4 LATVIA REJECTS LANGUAGE BID Voters in Latvia rejected a proposal to adopt Russian as a second official language, defeating a constitutional referendum measure that underscored the ethnic and political tensions that remain more than 20 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Last spring, Ukraine's parliament attempted to repeal a law that recognises Russian as a second official language in regions with significant Russian-speaking populations, but the acting president refused to sign the repeal.

One of the first issues the parliament tackled this weekend was that of the language, annulling a bill that provided for Russian to be used as a second official language in regions with large Russian-speaking populations.

I anxiously put the cellphone in the tray as a second official took possession of my laptop and small carry-on and marched off with them toward another security portal.

MOSCOW — Voters in Latvia on Saturday overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to adopt Russian as a second official language, defeating a constitutional referendum measure that underscored the ethnic and political tensions that remain more than 20 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

In the almost classless Burmese society the language of the court and of literature was also the language of the people, which prompted the British government to retain Burmese as a second official language and to make both languages compulsory for study in schools and colleges.