Sentence examples for de facto authority from inspiring English sources
But proving his de facto authority in court will be a painstaking process, Ms. Paterson said.
But these elections will take place in a barely functioning state: the Taliban insurgency still rages in roughly half the country, where it often wields de facto authority.
The main content of the agreement was that the Netherlands recognized the republic as the de facto authority in Java (including Madura) and Sumatra.
Those talks were ultimately successful in April 2013: while Serbia stopped short of recognizing Kosovo's independence, it conceded Pristina's de facto authority over the region.
Ibrahim, wanting to keep the peace (and recognizing that he had de facto authority in any case), quietly stopped using the cards.
He proved very efficient, and the allies on the ground were soon happy to accord de Gaulle's representatives de facto authority.
You are at this time the de facto authorities in this city because the legal authorities have not been able to stop our colleagues from falling".
Russia and the de facto authorities have cut all residual links between the regions and Georgia proper, and are not allowing EU monitors access to the contested territories.
M. HERZOG: You therefore went on missions to Paris before the French authorities, the French de facto authorities, had published the legislative decrees of 4 September 1942, 16 February 1943, and 1 February 1944.
M. HERZOG: I asked you whether it is true, that before the French de facto authorities published the three fundamental laws on forced labor of 4 September 1942, 16 February 1943, and 1 February 1944, you went on missions to France, to Paris?
