Sentence examples for formally civil from inspiring English sources

Although he and Briart remained formally civil, Erasmus suspected that Briart was secretly encouraging attacks on him.

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

That legislation would formally create "civil partnerships" for homosexual couples who wished to have their relationships recognized by law.

Although the criminal charges remain, a lawyer for the Italian government said in court that Italy would formally drop civil charges against Ms. True in January.

HOUSTON (Reuters) — The Stanford Financial Group's former chief investment officer formally denied civil fraud charges related to an alleged $8 billion fraud scheme, according to a court filing.

Although the programme was formally a civil and scientific one, the shah had some years before openly said that Iran would have nuclear weapons, "without a doubt and sooner than one would think".

Attempts to reduce poverty in Guatemala since the 1996 peace accords formally ended civil war (a consequence, let's not forget, of a US-led coup d'etat in 1954 removing a president pursuing land reform) have either not been serious or been ineffective, or both.

The 1989 Taif accord, which formally ended the civil war, stripped the Maronites of much of their traditional political weight.

In short, the Advocate General considered that although parental responsibility as provided for in the Brussels II bis Regulation is formally concerned with "civil matters," the classification used in national legislation is irrelevant.

Taiwan's economic presence on the mainland has risen steadily for the last decade, even though the island and China have never formally ended the civil war that left the Communist Party in control of the mainland after 1949 and Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist forces in control of Taiwan.

This formally ends the civil war.