Sentence examples for de facto approval from inspiring English sources

Last fall, the plan won de facto approval when Okuma residents re-elected Mr. Watanabe over a challenger who had called for building a new town at a safer location.

But he is worried that the de facto approval of the gulf plan will encourage other regional councils to draw up their own approaches.

Matthew Alexander, the pseudonymous former Air Force interrogator and author of "How To Break A Terrorist" e-mailed HuffPost that Bush's statement "is de facto approval of the deaths of hundreds, if not thousands, of American soldiers in Iraq who were killed by foreign fighters that Al Qaida recruited based on the President's policy of torture and abuse of detainees.

The most widely discussed "innovation" of the new act is that it obliges organizers of all actions involving cars or any other means of transportation (including trains, bycicles etc). to de facto receive approval from the authorities.

Some get behind an event at first because Ms. Biddle and Ms. Bellidora Westfall are working on it — a de facto seal of approval.

The United States recently filed suit at the World Trade Organization challenging the European Union's de facto moratorium on approval of new genetically modified crops, arguing it is not based on sound science.

"The New England Journal of Medicine is a de facto Good Housekeeping seal of approval," Dr. Forman said.

De jure, perhaps, but de facto, no.

He must not be indefinitely accepted as de facto head of state without the approval of the people.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore, the country's de facto central bank, has given preliminary approval to the deal, the banks said.

Observers like McGarity fear that congressional measures aimed at slowing or adding oversight to rule-making could so gunk up already complex mechanisms for their creation and approval as to de facto rule out substantial new rules in some fields for upwards of a decade.