de facto authority
de facto rule

We saw this regarding de facto authorities which are not legitimate.

France is, of course, the de facto authority over the Tuamotu.

This de facto authority gives one party a right to partially determine another's intentions.

All others are abrogated, unless otherwise recognized under the terms of such de facto authority.

This de facto authority over appointments was formally recognised by the Papacy in 1487.

This will ensure the dignity of our House, which should not 'call on' or 'ask' an illegitimate de facto authority to behave better.

Young appears regularly at public health events and is considered the de facto authority on public health in Chicago.

Within this framework, the state exercised extensive de facto authority regarding private investment decisions and the level of wages.

The United States immediately replied, recognizing the provisional government as the de facto authority.

The PAD became the de facto authority over the airport and the airplanes within it.

There is a strong case for holding that no political authority can be legitimate unless it is also a de facto authority.

It is an account of legitimate authority, whereas the phrase is often used to refer to de facto authorities.

But proving his de facto authority in court will be a painstaking process, Ms. Paterson said.

The irresponsible economic and financial policies of de facto authorities greatly accelerated Haiti's economic decline.

Brenda is the leader and de facto authority figure of the group, though she treats the rest as friends and equals rather than subordinates.

The de facto authorities have instituted a free market in foreign exchange and permit residents to hold foreign-currency denominated bank accounts.

Consistent with longstanding constitutional convention, the Prime Minister holds de facto authority over the use of the armed forces.

Liu was in charge of exercising de facto authority over the ministries of civil service affairs, ceremonies, and census.

The Jebtsundamba Khutuktu of Mongolia had immense de facto authority.

From its first meeting the Dáil also set about attempting to secure de facto authority for the Irish Republic throughout the country.

The Dutch recognised the Republic as the de facto authority in Java and Sumatra.

You are at this time the de facto authorities in this city because the legal authorities have not been able to stop our colleagues from falling."

(b) That the insurgent civil authority exercises de facto authority over the population within a determinate portion of the national territory.

The legal challenge will be to prove just that, he said, by linking Mr. Milosevic's "de jure and de facto authority."

The de facto authorities in northern Iraq, the Turkish officials argue, are the Western coalition forces that established the safe haven there after the gulf war.

Some in the industry have privately voiced fears that he would use such a threat to try to become a de facto rule maker.

The mid-13th century saw the de facto rule of Queen Devaladevi, the most powerful woman in Nepal's history.

Then he had tackled Chile's constitution, ushering through changes that, among other things, legitimatized his de facto rule by making him the country's President.

Three years later the British placed the country under the de facto rule of Charles Belgrave who operated as an adviser to the ruler until 1957.

The inhabitants suffered greatly from slave-raiding during the de facto rule of Lij Iyasu, and the region almost became uninhabited.

"For 50 years we have been under de facto rule by Americans," complained Masaaki Aguni, director of Okinawa's military base affairs office.

He then moved on, covering the de facto rule of Annias and the elevation of the queen's cousin to the Prince Regency.

Thus leadership fell by default to the military; by the time the Grolims recovered, the military had established de facto rule of all Angarak.

New Hampshire was temporarily left without formal government, and came under de facto rule by Massachusetts Governor Simon Bradstreet.

By 1773 the resistance led to a full-fledged revolt and ushered in a period when Palermo was under the de facto rule of the maestranze (guilds).

But de facto independence from the Ottomans was soon replaced by de facto rule from Whitehall.

In 1381, the city of Bremen established de facto rule over the lower Weser stream, including Lehe, later therefore called Bremerlehe.

Until 1632 de facto rule was held in Warsaw by King Sigismund III and not by the bishop or archbishop.

According to the de facto rules of the event, it is planned largely by the senior class of Chagrin Falls High School, with help from the juniors.

But this didn't last long, because in the Danish-Swedish Torstenson War of 1643-1645 the Swedes seized de facto rule in both prince-bishoprics.

He is famous for exercising de facto rule of the city of Mérida during his tenure as bishop and for founding the first confirmed hospital in Spain.

The situation is highlighted in this high-technology community because of a de facto rule that companies shut down in the slow business season from Christmas to New Year's Day.

And the de facto rule by outsiders, in this case Uganda - one of five outside nations with troops regularly in Congo - seems to only fan the flames.

As the de facto rules of Internet use, RCF 1855 should be read by all new Internet users--including Slate writers.

The boundary between positive and negative numbers is arbitrary, but the de facto rule is that all negative numbers have a left-most bit (most significant bit) of one.

The Unified Rules are the de facto rules for mixed martial arts in the United States, and have been adopted by other promotions and jurisdictions worldwide.

The Renaissance began during Cosimo's de facto rule of Florence, the seeds of which had arguably been laid before the Black Death tore through Europe.

In a public conference call, top executives from the AT&T Corporation, the nation's biggest communications company, were explaining how they meant to rewrite the de facto rules for pricing wireless calls.

Thus, the Northern Wei (essentially the Tuoba Xianbei), held de facto rule over the entire Mongolian Plateau and the Liao River region.

The Hamas government of 2012 exercises de facto rule over the Gaza Strip, supported by the Palestinian Legislative Council, which is dominated by members of Hamas.