Sentence examples for status of official from inspiring English sources

We have the status of official opposition because we are the government in waiting, as the largest single party in opposition.

The Nationalists still seem only half way up the hill on their climb to office, although most Scots would accord them the status of official Opposition.

Asked for photographs of the secret wall, the spokesman, Bruno Vekaric, said that this and all other documents had "the status of official secret".

Mr. Heissner's memorandum also suggests that he was reluctant to tell Congress about the status of official document requests to the White House -- both from lawmakers and "litigants against the government" -- because statistics showed that such requests were declining.

Because it has fewer than a tenth of the seats, even the status of official opposition leader may depend on a nod from the government of Narendra Modi, the new prime minister.

An article on March 5 about obstacles faced by the United States in stopping the production of illicit drugs by other countries, despite its ability to impose sanctions on them, referred incorrectly to the status of official relations with Myanmar, the only country that the Bush administration penalized last year by cutting its aid.

With the status of the official violet base, those pubs are now able to sell tickets for Maribor's home and away matches and official fan merchandise or to organize fan zones during Maribor's matches broadcast on television.

The Statue of Liberty, by the French sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi, was installed in New York Harbor in 1886 and soon took on the status of an official national image.

There is overwhelming support in eastern Ukraine for greater autonomy from Kiev, as well as for Russian to be given the status of an official state language.

2Under the terms of Amendment 5 to the constitution, Albanian is accorded the status of an official language in communities in which it is spoken by at least 20percentt of the population.

Mr. Veerappan has again raised these sensitive claims, demanding that Tamil Nadu receive a larger share of the Cauvery water, that the victims of the riots be compensated and that Tamil be given the status of an official language in Karnataka.