Sentence examples for official friendly from inspiring English sources

Fifa has now demoted it from an official friendly to a practice match.

Governor Nuyts went to Mattau on an official (friendly) visit with a guard of sixty musketeers, who were fêted on their arrival.

Regulators have reversed their predecessors… it's understandably confusing and a bit concerning when you hear the rules have recently changed, yet again," writes chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson, who fails to mention that his company has been deeply involved in those changes, spending lavishly on lawyers, lobbyists and the elections of officials friendly to the company.

While it doesn't beat Turkey's 11-year run, I wasn't able to find any national team match, official or friendly, played in Jerusalem before 1984.

On the return, the American official was friendly enough, yet assaulted me with questions: Where were you?

In every other country I've visited, I've found both customs and law enforcement officials courteous, friendly and helpful compared with the brutal demeanor here.

But that has not stopped him from courting some of the Democrats' wealthiest donors here at the Four Seasons, a nexus of party operatives, Kerry campaign officials and friendly celebrities gathered for the party's convention this week.

Republicans have tried to focus all of their energies in getting local elected officials in friendly Congressional districts to do their heavy lifting, and limit their visits to areas where they can cram the most voters into a room.

I am afraid Mrs. Temple Sr .[the queen mother, whose elder daughter they had nicknamed Shirley Temple] will never give in," Wallis wrote to the duke, who, in reply, told her that while some court officials were friendly and correct on the surface, there was "only granite below".

Interviewees noted that officials of friendly governments fully accepted the health case for Taiwan's inclusion.

The main function of these seminars is simply to translate exam board jargon, often so bewildering in official documents, into friendly English.