Word: facto
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hitting the fast-forward button to complete a year's worth of movies in six months. "The studios are ready for a strike,? says producer Dan Jinks ("American Beauty"). "They are putting so much money into development now and production in the spring that there'll be a de facto strike whether there's a strike...
...term bill fee should be raised....My own sympathies are to increase the UC fee," he writes in an e-mail message. "But this is not the current trend, de facto. I would really prefer to have student support...
Vaclav Klaus, a former free-marketeering Prime Minister, decried the de facto nationalization as a "bank robbery carried out in broad daylight." Three days after sending in the cops, the government turned IPB over to the Belgian-owned CSOB. The new supervisors found a sprawling conglomerate of some 600 interlinked companies involved in almost every kind of questionable financial practice. Of an estimated $4.6 billion in outstanding loans, probably only 20% are recoverable...
...Refusal to engage in a process leading to durable peace...has led de facto to a garrison Israeli state," read the first letter, which outlined alleged inequalities of the peace process...
...Barak had warned earlier that if the violence did not end, Israel would declare an indefinite time out in the peace process. But such a time out may already be a de facto reality, since the momentum of the current violence suggests that neither side can really afford to resume the "final-status" peace negotiations that broke down at Camp David. Even Yasser Arafat?s own supporters have shown little enthusiasm for the cease-fire he agreed to at Sharm el-Sheikh, and appear resolved - at least for now - to wage their campaign to end the Israeli occupation...