Sentence examples for formally able from inspiring English sources

He recognises that there are many people who, while being formally able to appropriate, have no real power to do so.

Although the Urban League has not yet been able formally to recruit for enrollment, Ms. Sanders said that 400 people have already expressed interest in the charter school.

The Latvian currency has been pegged to the euro for years and its government argues that since all eurozone decision-taking shapes economic and fiscal policy in the country it would be better to join formally, to be able to take part in decisions.

This is the Kremlin's way of punishing a traitor, demonstrating strength to the West and to its own population and preventing the emergence of an alternative civilisation on its territory.Eastern promisesMr Putin may not wish, or be able, formally to annex Crimea, and he says that Russia has no plans to do so.

And it will probably take at least another week until the Bundestag, Germany's lower house, will be able formally to elect the new chancellor, who will then pick her cabinet: the whole deal first has to be approved by congresses and the parliamentary groups of all three parties involved.Given the long and arcane procedure, much can still go wrong before the new government is in place.

Political appointees would not be able to formally direct civil servants.

This means the United States has not been able to formally stake out its underwater boundaries.

But the evidence has been largely anecdotal, and neither regulators nor airlines have been able to formally substantiate them.

Since 2003, the project has discovered more than 5,300 species, Mr. Feldman said, adding: "We've only been able to formally describe a few hundred so far.

As for a timetable on when Texas A&M would be able to formally apply to the SEC, no one is sure.

Death benefits are being withheld on the grounds that the government has not been able to formally identify all the victims.