7 sentences with 'formally'

Example sentences and phrases with the word formally and other words derived from it.

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« Although not formally educated in the scholastic tradition, Hildegard was nevertheless the author of several works of theological interpretation and medicine. »
« The Roman equites, however, were wealthy, and benefited from the fact that senators were formally forbidden to engage in commerce from the end of the 3rd century BCE. »
« In 1215, a much less competent king named John I signed the Magna Carta ("great charter") with the English nobility that formally recognised the feudal privileges of the nobility, towns and clergy. »
« Claudius also established a veritable bureaucracy to manage the vast empire and began the process of formally distinguishing between the emperor's personal wealth and the official budget of the Roman state. »
« Similarly, a large region of southwestern France, Aquitaine, was formally owned by the English royal line, with the awkward caveat that while a given English king could be sovereign in England, his lordship of Aquitaine technically made him a vassal of whoever the French king was. »
« At their height, the Vikings deployed huge fleets that raided many of the major cities of early medieval Europe and North Africa. In the late 9th century they formally organised themselves into a 'Great Fleet' based in their kingdom in eastern England (they conquered the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia in the 870s). »
« After the fall of the Western Empire, the new Germanic kings recognised the authority of the emperor in Constantinople. They were formally his vassals (lords in his service) and he remained the emperor of the entire Roman Empire in name. At least until the Byzantine Empire began to decline in the 7th century, this was not just a convenient fiction. »

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