13 March 2014
Polsat News 11:04:50 PM CET
po obu stronach de facto
on both sides de facto
Polsat News 11:06:20 PM CET
de facto ("jak to wszyscy już de facto...")
de facto ("as everyone already de facto...")
Both expressions were used by the same person in a phone conversation with the news woman in the studio. Neither sounds natural.
Thursday, March 13, 2014
de facto
gigantic
12 March 2014
Polsat News 12:48:50 PM CET
rolnicy ponoszą gigantyczne straty
farmers are suffering gigantic losses
TVN 7:15 PM CET
gigantyczny przetarg
gigantic tender
Neither of the two uses above sound natural.
de facto
7 March 2014
either TVP Info or Polsat News, 11:41 AM CET
de facto, de iure
BBC 3:02 PM CET
Crimea is de facto in Russian hands
BBC 4:36 PM CET
in broad daylight
BBC 4:36 PM CET
the apparatus of the state
analytical critical
6 March 2014
Polsat News 8:43 PM CET
analityczne, krytyczne spojrzenie
analytical, critical view
de facto
5 March 2014
TVP Info 6:11 PM CET
de facto (Palikot speaking in Sejm, the Polish parliament)
de facto
3 March 2014
CNN live from Simferopol, 6:05 PM CET
de iure [...] de facto (Diana Magnay)
I do not necessarily mean to say that this de facto was not accidental. I am simply noting its occurrence.
mantra de facto
2 March 2014
TVP Info 9:20 PM CET
powtarza jak mantrę
repeats like a mantra
Polsat News 10:13 PM CET
zajęcie de facto części Czechosłowacji (cytat z wcześniejszej audycji)
seizure of a de facto part of Czechoslovakia (a quote from an earlier program)
The second expression, about seizing a de facto part of Czechoslovakia is quite revealing.