Sentence examples for de facto that from inspiring English sources

"Chronicle of a Summer" challenged both the impersonality of cinematic history and the censorship, official and de facto, that prevailed in French politics — and linked that challenge to the film's prime subject, individual happiness.

"China admits de facto that Russia has interests in eastern Europe, Russia admits that China has interests around the perimeter of its borders, and even though neither will actively help its partner in Ukraine or the South China Sea, both will observe an advantageous neutrality," Trenin said.

And it will fail, because Kerry's plan will be "realistic" rather than visionary, and de facto that means speaking more to the power of Israel and its domestic lobby (not only AIPAC, but the tens if millions of Christian Zionists) than to the aspirations of the Palestinian people.

Moreover, the likelihood of France's permanent Security Council seat becoming de facto that of the European Union would leave Britain increasingly and dangerously isolated.

In a sense, Himes's entire oeuvre can be read as an attempt to prove how black he really was, and to authenticate, de facto, that abstraction.

She doesn't expect to encounter racism every day; as her identity takes shape, she learns, de facto, that diversity and racial difference are constants, like breathing.

Indeed, that is the de facto division that exists now, but the separation becomes cleaner and more widely understood with an actual split.

So that de facto meant that I was doing it wrong".

The suit asserted that Allied carried out a "de facto demutualization" that enabled executives to issue themselves millions in stock options, without providing any compensation to policyholders.

It wants to ensure that the YPG cannot knit Kurdish enclaves in northern Syria into a de facto state that could strengthen the PKK.

He meant the de facto regime that has ruled Honduras since a military coup on June 28th.