Sentence examples for formally tied from inspiring English sources

However, it also formally tied serfs to the estates on which they resided.

That may leave London as the only place not formally tied to the alliance.

Though a smaller group is allied to South Korea, most of the 625,000 Korean residents of Japan are not formally tied to either group.

Negotiations between BP and Rosneft were formally tied up yesterday at a meeting at Mr Putin's personal residence in Moscow, after which the Prime Minister emerged to give his personal blessing to the deal.

But Tuesday's report from the European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad), a network of 54 NGOs from 19 European countries, says many countries have reneged on their promises and at least 20% of all bilateral aid remains formally tied.

Montenegro, despite the welcome it showed the thousands of refugees, and its opposition to the Yugoslav government in Belgrade, is still formally tied to the Yugoslav leadership, NATO's official enemies and, for Kosovo Albanians, their implacable foes.

Mr. Maduro and Ms. Flores were married on Monday after having resisted formally tying the knot for about two decades.

Jolie's revelation of her double mastectomy comes amid much frenzied speculation over whether the couple are preparing imminently to formally tie the knot.

By formally tying all those efforts together, the Smithsonian hopes to "mobilize [its] internal troops"—about 100 scientists to do even more, says John Kress, the Smithsonian's interim under secretary for science.

Jackson 1985 argues for an approach to "ought to be" that links it to counterfactuals, and he informally explores its semantics and logic; Goble 1990a makes a similar case for "good" and "bad" (as well as "ought"), formally tying these to logical features of counterfactuals explicitly.

A peace treaty with Japan was signed in 1951 to formally tie up any loose ends such as compensation to be paid to Allied prisoners of war who had been victims of atrocities.