The putative buyer, Rupert Murdoch, quickly put the record straight, forcing Mr Fourtou to backtrack and causing Vivendi's shares to plunge before the deal was finally completed on October 1st.Mr Breton is to announce his rescue plan for France Telecom in two months' time.
In Kilinochchi, Tamil Eelam's putative capital, lie the remains of a huge water tank destroyed by the LTTE, with the slogan: "Say no to destruction ever again".
Indeed, were Gordon Brown to fall under a bus - and the hypothesis is usually related to serving, rather than putative, prime ministers, Johnson would certainly be my candidate to succeed Blair.
Scottish Labour MPs were desperate for Miliband to go after Sturgeon, but he also had to counterbalance any attacks with the need to show he had the restraint and gravitas of a putative prime minister.
It thus captured the recent Palestinian concession that there should be western peacekeepers within the territory of their putative state.
The truth is that the only long-term plan they have had is to seize the excuse of the putative need for "austerity" to shrink the size of the state, in the process imparting serious social damage to the poor.
The most important issue is the poor performance of the nation's productivity, which, far from being improved, has almost certainly been exacerbated by the constant emphasis on the putative need for austerity.
Yes, it may turn out to do well on DVD at Christmas; yes, it may have been a smart move cancelling the week-of-release press screening to avoid even more abusive reviews; but these aren't the thoughts, strategies or indeed actions of a putative movie mogul.
Pro-Russia rebels said on Tuesday they had started pulling heavy weaponry back from the frontline in accordance with the putative peace plan, which aims to create a buffer zone between the two sides' artillery.
It's been called the most contested acronym in Europe, a putative free-trade deal between the world's two richest trading powers that will either unleash untold prosperity or economic and cultural ruin, depending on your point of view.
It is widely assumed that an early contest would favour Johnson while a later one, after the putative EU referendum, would be less advantageous.
