Informally

After the meeting, I met privately with Secretary of State Al Haig and told him to call our ambassador in Tokyo, Mike Mansfield, and have him pass the word informally to Japanese Foreign Minister Masa-yoshi Ito, who was scheduled to make a visit to Washington in a few days, that pressure was building in Congress for passage of a bill establishing mandatory quotas. ❋ Ronald Reagan (1990)

In what is referred to informally as a hereditary republic, Bashar al-Assad has continued the tradition, with his brother and brother-in-law among those holding top positions in the army and intelligence. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Whether they can successfully insist on everyone else using that name, formally or informally, is a matter of power relationships. ❋ Unknown (2010)

On March 11, 2010, House Republicans agreed to a one-year moratorium on earmarks—or, as they are referred to informally—sweetheart deals. ❋ Eric Cantor (2010)

If you like to entertain informally, as we do, you can have each person saute his own, or at least watch hungrily while you do it. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Post-millenialists I have yet to find one that calls himself a dispensationalist, which is a term informally coined by Scofieldites, which Bible post-millenialists do not use. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He even got his name informally applied an SEC rule. ❋ Unknown (2008)

We also found that one-third of the college classrooms that contain both males and females are characterized by informally sex-segregated seating, patterns formed by the students themselves. ❋ Myra David Sadker (2003)

The approach is referred to informally as “muddling through,” or more technically as “disjointed incrementalism.” ❋ Amitai Etzioni (1988)