6 sentences with 'actual'
Example sentences and phrases with the word actual and other words derived from it.
• « Although the official unemployment rate in Rostock was 14 percent, the actual rate of unemployed and underemployed was close to 45 percent. »
• « In these circumstances, defence almost always trumped attack, making actual conquest of foreign cities very difficult, if not impossible, and thus, although cities existed for thousands of years (again, from about 3500 BC), there were still no empires. »
• « Overall, about 40% of the population were native-born Athenians, half of whom were men, and the other half were under 20, so only 10% of the actual population had political rights. This is still a very large percentage by the standards of the ancient world, but it should be seen as an antidote to the idea that the Greeks believed in "equality" in a modern sense. »
• « Although Rome would rarely extend actual citizenship to entire communities in the future, the assimilation of the Latins into the Roman state set an important precedent: conquered peoples could be won to Roman rule and contribute to Roman power, a key factor in Rome's continued expansion thereafter. »
• « Combined with his actual tribunate and his direct rule over the provinces in which most of the Roman army was garrisoned at the time, Augustus' practical control over the Roman state was unchecked. »