Sentence examples for purely official from inspiring English sources

"This is purely official Iraqi business," he said.

Both speak as if the boys had attained a purely official identity, as if they were not their own dead children.

Sometimes, this "migrant" status is purely official, since many workers are now the children of migrant workers who have grown up in the city, with their expectations moulded accordingly.

At the bottom are the spokespeople and purely political officials who are almost instantly discredited, because they are forced to defend the statements of a President who routinely lies and manufactures nonsensical versions of events.

This cannot be achieved and preserved on a purely formal and official basis.I believe, therefore, that it was not only permissible but mandatory that, at a given moment, George Bush should turn to George Tenet and say to him something like this: "Listen George, let us stop for a moment and turn off all the audio and other recording devices.

The operation is purely defensive, NATO officials and military commanders here say, but the territory being patrolled abuts some 500 miles of Russia's western frontier, including the isolated enclave of Kaliningrad.

"This is purely caution," a Defense Department official said.

But he article that offended Taiwan officials was purely political.

"The conduct of which Martha Stewart was convicted, lying to federal officials, was purely personal".

The Bush campaign clearly appreciated that, and several Republican officials sounded purely scared, although that perhaps partially reflected a desire to plant, in the public mind, the notion that what was happening in Florida was ghastly.

By his high-minded statements, Baldwin clearly believes that adultery among public officials is purely a private matter and is, perhaps, a fringe benefit of holding office.