8 sentences with “officially”

The Malmöflikornas were officially declared the best group of gymnasts during the 1965 Vienna Gymnastrada.

The Roman government officially moved to the city of Ravenna in the north (which was more defensible) after this sack of Rome.

In time, various sects of Christianity survived in Muslim lands that faded into kingdoms that were officially and rigidly Christian.

In 380 CE the Roman Empire was officially declared Christian by Emperor Theodosius I and all important people had to be, at least nominally, Christian.

One of the traditional rights, and a vital factor in the life of the peasants, was the commons: land not officially controlled by anyone, which everyone had the right to use.

Throughout Europe, missionaries were officially instructed not to fight pagan religious practice, but to subtly reform it. It was less important that pagans understand the nuances of Christianity and more important that they accept its essential truth.

In fact, for more than a century, most Germanic "kings" were, officially, Roman officials recognised by treaty from the legal and diplomatic perspective of Constantinople. That said, the "Roman" emperors of Constantinople had many legal pretexts to consider those kings as usurpers as well, since the recognition treaties were often full of loopholes.

In 1968, the Social Court of the then Federal Republic of Germany officially recognised alcohol addiction as a disease. Among Germans in particular, the proportion of women who could technically be classified as alcoholics rose from a tenth of the population during the Second World War to a quarter to a third of the total at the beginning of the 1990s, due to crises of loneliness or lowered self-esteem.