7 sentences with 'facto'
Example sentences and phrases with the word facto and other words derived from it.
• « The final and permanent division between the Western and Eastern churches, which had already existed de facto for centuries, came in 1054, when Pope Leo IX and Patriarch Michael I excommunicated each other after Michael refused to recognise Leo's pre-eminence - this event cemented the "Great Schism" (schism means "rupture" or "split") between the Western and Eastern churches. »
• « The governor of Buenos Aires, Juan Manuel de Rosas, managed to become a de facto national leader and, on the basis of soldiers from the coastal provinces, raised armies that took part in the civil and international struggles that followed. »
• « The state constituted historically in this way is a sovereign state in its own space. This means that through this process it transformed force into legitimate power, de facto power into de jure power. »
• « Similarly, the new forms of mass media brought about by satellite and the internet, for example, mean that traditional ideas about cultural boundaries are being challenged de facto. »
• « This de facto situation has led to attempts at transnational legal organisation. In some cases, these organisations have decidedly economic objectives, such as the NAFTA treaty between Mexico and the US, or MERCOSUR, which involves Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Brazil. »
• « The de facto government of Leopoldo F. Galtieri decided the military occupation of the Malvinas Islands by force, which unleashed the 1982 war. »
• « Despite this, the basic pillars on which state sovereignty rests, albeit in more subtle ways, are still present: the legal rationalisation of power and the transformation of de facto power into de jure power. »