| In countries that do not formally designate an official language, a de facto national language usually evolves. |
| By a constitutional amendment adhering to EU law, Malta gives the right for the freedom to any religion or none at all but de jure not de facto. |
| Bohemond was the de facto leader of the Crusade during its passage through Asia Minor. |
| He agrees with Kant that Hume's empiricism is refuted de facto by the example of mathematics, whose judgments are synthetic a priori. |
| In 1830, a revolution in the southern half of the country led to the de facto independence of the new state of Belgium. |
| By the time of his death in March 1625, Charles and the Duke of Buckingham had already assumed de facto control of the kingdom. |
