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  2. De facto - Wikipedia

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    The de facto boundaries of a country are defined by the area that its government is actually able to enforce its laws in, and to defend against encroachments by other countries that may also claim the same territory de jure. The Durand Line is an example of a de facto boundary.

  3. Diplomatic recognition - Wikipedia

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    De facto recognition of states, rather than de jure, is rare. De jure recognition is stronger, while de facto recognition is more tentative and recognizes only that a government exercises control over a territory. An example of the difference is when the United Kingdom recognized the Soviet state de facto in 1921, but de jure only in 1924.

  4. Racial segregation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Segregation was enforced across the U.S. for much of its history. Racial segregation follows two forms, de jure and de facto. De jure segregation mandated the separation of races by law, and was the form imposed by U.S. states in slave codes before the Civil War and by Black Codes and Jim Crow laws following the war, primarily in the Southern ...

  5. De jure - Wikipedia

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    In law and government, de jure (/ d eɪ ˈ dʒ ʊər i, d i-,-ˈ jʊər-/; Latin: [deː ˈjuːre]; lit. ' by law ' ) describes practices that are officially recognized by laws or other formal norms, regardless of whether the practice exists in reality.

  6. De facto standard - Wikipedia

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    In 2005, PDF/A became a de jure standard as ISO 19005-1:2005. [4] In 2008 Adobe's PDF 1.7 became ISO 32000-1:2008. [5] [6] AutoCAD DXF, an ASCII format for import and export of CAD drawings and fragments in the 1980s and 1990s. In the 2000s, XML based standards emerged as de facto standards.

  7. Power behind the throne - Wikipedia

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    A modern example is Sonia Gandhi, acting as the real power behind the erstwhile Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Peshwa of the Maratha Confederacy, under the Bhat family, they became the de facto leaders of the Maratha Confederacy, with the Chhatrapati becoming a nominal ruler. Sarvadhikari, chief minister of the Kingdom of Mysore.

  8. Institution - Wikipedia

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    For example, Levitsky and Murillo stress the importance of institutional strength in their article "Variation in Institutional Strength." They suggest that in order for an institution to maintain strength and resistance there must be legitimacy within the different political regimes, variation in political power, and political autonomy within a ...

  9. De facto corporation and corporation by estoppel - Wikipedia

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    De facto corporation and corporation by estoppel are both terms that are used by courts in most common law jurisdictions to describe circumstances in which a business organization that has failed to become a de jure corporation (a corporation by law) will nonetheless be treated as a corporation, thereby shielding shareholders from liability. [1]