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How to use the word facto in a Sentence?

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We are in an area where CVS and Walgreens have closed, walmart has become the de-facto.

Chicago Alderman-Elect Ronnie Mosley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Marvel’s reentry into China after a de facto ban of [more than] three years by Chinese authorities is especially significant given the backdrop against which it is happening, not only is China facing increasing economic headwinds at home, but also a more challenging external environment, driven by growing communication and trust gaps with the West.

Alfredo Montufar-Helu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

De facto, we have already proven compatibility with alliance standards. They are real for Ukraine – real on the battlefield and in all aspects of our interaction, we trust each other, we help each other, and we protect each other. This is the alliance.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

While we need to support all types of diversity in our party, when someone is acting as a de facto agent of the Republican caucus and single-handily stopping good policy that would help all Americans, we have a moral obligation to do something, joe Manchin is doing what Mitch McConnell cannot do for himself.

Colin Strother

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Our teams do not have specific equipment to take people from under the rubble, this has to rely mostly on the efforts of the de facto authorities, which also have certain limitations in that respect... I don't have the detailed reports of how well positioned they are to operate and deploy such machinery to these mountainous areas.

Ramiz Alakbarov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He's challenging Joe Biden to live up to Joe Biden responsibilities as a leader of the West, a leader of the democratic community of nations. And he presented the de facto challenge to North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Ian Brzezinski

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If this becomes a real ban, not just a de facto ban, the concern is it's going to last longer.

Tom Kloza

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We can not remain militarily engaged alongside de facto authorities whose strategy and hidden objectives we do not share, the fight against terrorism can't justify everything.

Emmanuel Macron

Found on CNN
2 years ago

People come first and that’s important to remember in this humanitarian crisis, we work independently from the de facto government so the assurance there is that any donation received will be given directly to the people.

World Food Program

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The reality on the ground is that the Taliban are now the de facto authorities in the country.

Hamid Karzai

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The scale, pace and strategic nature of Israel’s actions on settlement expansion and the intent behind it have brought us to a point where we need to be honest about what is actually happening on the ground. ... It is de facto annexation, this is not something that I, or in my view this house, says lightly. We are the first EU state to do so. But it reflects the huge concern we have about the intent of the actions and of course, their impact.

Foreign Affairs

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

I feel like just the history of the party overall has been to almost sideline progressive priorities, racial justice priorities, priorities for the working class, health care, et cetera, and I don't think that any selection of leadership should ever be a de facto thing.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on CNN
2 years ago

So much of this trading has been fueled by broker de facto claims of ‘free trading’... but that is false and misleading and the SEC should say that and stop it.

Dennis Kelleher

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The purpose of the Bill of Rights was to limit what the federal government could do. Any interpretation of a provision of the Bill of Rights as a grant of federal power is ipso facto wrong.

L. A. Powe Jr.

added by Normando
3 years ago

If anything, this will strengthen further the perception that hiring global talent remains essential but good governance is necessary in any case — because no matter what, it doesn't make sense to have the CEO in de facto control of the board.

Nicholas Benes

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Under the Hydrocarbon Law, every agreement for PDVSA to cede exploration and production rights is illegal and unconstitutional. Maduro's regime is insisting in the oil industry's de-facto privatization, which is aggravating its collapse.

Jose Ignacio Hernandez

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

PDVSA is no longer producing. It's signing contracts for others to produce in a de facto privatization.

Rafael Ramirez

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Cannabix Technologies -LRB- BLOZF -RRB-'ll likely be that there will not be one de facto technology.

Rav Mlait

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Markets will consider such an arrangement as a de facto deal whether they officially sign it or not.

Hiroyuki Ueno

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It looks a bit difficult for two countries' leaders to shake hands and sign a deal this month. What is more likely is to essentially kick the can, with China buying more U.S. farm products while the U.S. postpones its next tariffs, markets will consider such an arrangement as a de facto deal whether they officially sign it or not.

Hiroyuki Ueno

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We know de facto who is in charge in Bolivia : the military.

Ivan Briscoe

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The fact remains that the German economy has been in de facto stagnation for more than a year, this is clearly nothing to become too cheerful about.

Carsten Brzeski

Found on CNN
4 years ago

But if it's only in your feed, between you and Facebook, and their microtargeting of who you are, that's not democracy anymore, that's just privatised de facto manipulation of who you're going to vote for.

Margrethe Vestager

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Recent events surrounding U.S.-China ties threaten to raise new points of conflict beyond just trade differences, risk aversion shall continue being the de facto mode for global investors.

Han Tan

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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