The successor Trustee, Fernandez, is basically just a puppet of Husband, and Husband exercises de facto control over the Trust.

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Brussels said it would open EU membership talks with Serbia if the country relinquished its de facto control over northern Kosovo.

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Bitcoin uses a clever scheme to maintain a fully decentralized transaction register, preventing double-spending without giving anyone de facto control over the system.

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Although the government said last week that it will reduce its direct stake to 20% by the end of September, it will retain its de facto control of the company.

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As many in the television business can testify, Mr Malone has often succeeded in exercising de facto control, even when he does not appear to have a formal right to do so.

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But leases, involving a de facto transfer of control, are common.

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Konna, the city recaptured, was the de facto line of government control.

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Normally about 25 trucks from both sides cross the Line of Control (LoC) - the de facto border which divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan - but on Tuesday, several Indian trucks were delayed by customs and could not travel to Pakistan, reports Binoo Joshi from Jammu.

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Pressed up close to the administrative border with Serbia and linked to Belgrade economically, the area seems de facto partitioned from the rest of Kosovo, if formally under K-For and Unmik control.

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