de jure

How To Use de jure In A Sentence

• As these three examples demonstrate, the "one-China principle" has been used by the PRC as a means of waging its "legal warfare" to incorporate Taiwan and to accomplish its bottom-line goal of de jure unification, as explicitly stated by its declared intent to use military force if necessary under the "anti-secession law" of 2005 to "reunify" Taiwan. Jamestown Foundation: All Publications
• The Synod's declarations prevailed de jure but not de facto in the Roman Catholic Church down to the Reformation era.
• “De Jure-jurando” which you have questionless consulted upon this occasion. Waverley
• Since there is no single, definitive resource regarding SOA, the term SOA has been commandeered to represent the interests and agendas of many; such is the problem of de jure standards.
• The government refused therefore to recognize that these mukhtars had any de jure authority.
• Geography - note: landlocked - entire coastline along the Red Sea was lost with the de jure independence of Eritrea on 24 May 1993; the Blue Nile, the chief headstream of the Nile by water volume, rises in T'ana Hayk The 2007 CIA World Factbook
• The President aims to create a de jure one-party state.
• The philosophy of auctions took off in the '90s, and one can grant de facto property rights without de jure property rights.
• So in all of the plaintiffs' claims here rest on an assertion of de jure sovereignty.
• The Synod's declarations prevailed de jure but not de facto in the Roman Catholic Church down to the Reformation era.