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Prohibition is hereby officially prohibited.
Officially, he works for us as an interpreter.
My trip to Australia is officially booked.
I don't believe we've officially met.
The United States officially declared a state of emergency.
Tom has officially been declared missing.
I'm officially protesting this decision.
He was never officially charged with spying.
The war was officially over.
The United States has officially ended economic sanctions against Burma.
I'm officially on vacation.
We're not officially dating.
Tom and Mary are now officially engaged.
Is Tom officially retired?
Has Tom officially retired?
Algeria doesn't officially recognize the independence of Kosovo.
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But your mission has officially started.
That means we are officially beggars.
Tribeca, the buck has officially been passed.
You are officially my favorite son.
And as soon as I've handed it over. I'm officially off work until further notice.
Any too-hooters, my party has officially begun!
Despite appearances I'm still officially in charge.
Some days later, the Countess Dubarry is officially presented to the Court.
Of course. And if you want to take your seat at the Parliament, before you must officially receive your title.
I declare the dairy cooperative officially started!
After I have officially announced that we have a cure for leprosy! Yet, I'd rather suffer such defeat than allow your Utopian extortion!
For 7 years you have been officially old enough to do something and you haven't done anything.
Has not notified of your visit officially.
Officially, this fellow would be brought up before a court of inquiry and the exercise repeated some other time.
I came to ask you for Jeanne's hand, officially.
You officially commissioned him to get the stolen stamps back, here in the police headquarters?
But not officially, Mary.
Well, that officially closes the case, Sir Henry.
I'm not officially connected with the government - and I intend to remain on the case.
The case is closed officially. but I'd like to help unofficially.
Can't ask for help from anyone. officially.
Mr. Host, the season Has now officially started.
I'm glad to meet you officially.
The State of California will say I'm dead, officially dead if somebody'll say they murdered me.
I'd be innocent officially.
Ladies and gentlemen, if there are no more questions for Mr Martins, I think I can call the meeting officially closed.
I can tell you officially that's where it came from!
I am doing to introduce Madame officially at court. because then no one will dare to insult her.
My dear Dubarry: the king has decided to officially introduce you at court.
A few days later the Countess Dubarry is presented officially at court.
Officially, you are men and will be treated as such.
I'm here officially today.
But I require your financial assistance before we're officially engaged.
AS YOUR NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR. I THINK I MIGHT BE ALLOWED TO BE THE FIRST TO RECEIVE HIM, OFFICIALLY.
Honeymoon is officially over.
I'm afraid he's coming here officially.
Officially?
That meant I could put on his shoes and walk out of there officially dead.
Look, Sieber, headquarters officially declared this a war.
News and current affairs
NEW YORK - On May 8, 1945, when World War II in Europe officially ended, much of the world lay in ruins.
President Barack Obama officially ended the war in Iraq, and is withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan at a pace constrained only by the need to save face.
It makes sense to think that when state authorities enforce strict codes of behavior, people tend to rebel and move away from officially sanctioned religious institutions.
The number of Chinese residing in Russia - whether officially or clandestinely - amounts to 300,000.
Relations between the United States and Iran have been officially non-existent since a group of radical students stormed the US embassy in Teheran - 25 years ago this week - taking sixty six Americans hostage for 444 days.
Officially, China remains Communist.
Nonetheless, China's more than 35 million internet users - a number that doubles every nine months - have access to a wide variety of previously censored information, including sites that are officially banned.
But Israel has officially rejected its basic premises with patently unacceptable caveats and prerequisites.
It was not until 1989 that the existence of this protocol was officially admitted, thanks to the Glasnost-policy of Mikhail Gorbachev.
Mubarak's ill health, widely rumored for years, was never officially acknowledged until November 2003, when it could no longer be covered up.
Taiwan is an independent state but is officially part of China.
True, America officially welcomed the launching of a common European security and defense policy.
On the conservative side, Jacques Chirac now officially supports Sarkozy, but he may also secretly encourage his most loyal supporters to vote for Bayrou, even if there is no love lost between the two men.
I took advantage of the opportunity, and, with the full support of EY's leadership, officially came out.
Officially, this has not yet been acknowledged.
The Taliban - blamed nowadays for just about all of Afghanistan's ills - have officially been gone for nearly seven years, so why are conditions still so abysmal?
Women writers wrote exquisite poetry and prose, and they were officially recognized as the equals (well, almost) of their male peers; but they tended to avoid certain topics - and war was a man's business.
Having already officially hit the ceiling, the Treasury is moving money around and tapping various pots of unused funds to pay its bills.
On December 3, Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron officially abandoned hopes of clinching a deal with other EU leaders at their summit on December 17-18.
And yet China's reliance on economic policies that require the heavy hand of the state to achieve officially decreed targets had been fading.
Interestingly, in his last officially broadcast television interview, Osama bin Laden gave his backing to several Islamic liberation struggles, yet he failed to mention the Uyghur independence movement.
The run-up in prices took place at a time when deposit interest rates were officially capped.
To be sure, US criminal investigators have not officially identified the motives of the Kuwaiti-born Abdulazeez, who does not seem to have belonged to a terror network.