Sentence examples for officially held from inspiring English sources

As a result, the officially held debt became part of Greece's solvency problem.

Over the years Kardelj handled many foreign missions and tasks as well, though he officially held the post of foreign minister only from 1948 to 1953.

Although the Mikati government officially held to a policy of neutrality, the high stakes of the conflict for Lebanon were apparent.

Inflation is officially held to be 20%; independent sources put it at 30-40%.As the economy plunges ever deeper into recession, there is little hope of providing more jobs for the young.

This movement (whose American branch was the Socialist Workers Partyy) proved to be little more than a shadow organization, although a small founding conference was officially held in France in 1938.

The Royal Prerogative, a set of customary powers officially held by the Queen, is handed to government ministers to enable them to take decisions without the backing or consent of Parliament.

The church officially holds that using such contraception violates the integrity of sexual intercourse and is gravely wrong.

If they were included in the total, Mr. Santorum's margin of victory would roughly double to 69 votes from the 34-vote lead that he officially holds.

"It was regrettable to issue, at this particular time, a judicial decision against him while he still officially holds office," Mr. Talabani said in a statement.

To officially hold the surname of Prada, Bianchi had her mother's unmarried sister adopt her in the late 1980s and thereafter legally changed her name.

For that reason, neither Mr. Jiang nor Mr. Wang will officially hold any equity in the Shanghai Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation, the wholly foreign owned company that will build the planned Shanghai plant.