Examples of formal

• They wanted to make a formal complaint about their doctor.

• The US lodged a formal protest against the arrest of the foreign reporters.

• My client accepts the formal apology without prejudice to any further legal action she may decide to take.

• A formal protest was made by the German team about their disqualification from the relay final.

• Most modern kings and queens rule their countries only in a formal way, without real power.

• Is it considered improper to wear such a short skirt to a formal occasion?

• It's incorrect to address people by their first names at these formal events.

• His casual behaviour was wholly inappropriate for such a formal occasion.

• He writes in a formal and rather stilted style.

• My clothes for work tend to be quite formal.

• The procedure that we described above can be used repeatedly, until all formals have been eliminated from all functions in the program.

• A formal charge of +1 was assigned to the quaternary ammonium group of acetylcholine and protonated nicotine.

• Here a formal unity of the administration generally seems to have prevailed, although the administration was internally specialized.

• Consequently, this conversion is not formal but substantial.

• Churches had so much social influence that they did not have to establish formal political claims.

• Our interest, however, is with the crystallization of that discussion into a more formal debate in the late nineteenth century.

• One is a theoretical and formal issue, the other a practical problem of reconciling the demands of each.

• All epistemic practices involve power, knowledge, and meaning - they all depend on technique, formal distinctions, and practical contexts that situate theory and consequence.

• The so-named figurational enactments of these categories, however, provide an approximate minimum from which to begin the thinking needed for a formal taxonomy.

• Clearly a psychoanalytical program of inquiry is distinct from the formal interest of this study, but it does provide some valuable insights.

• The tropes of contraction are all formal or poetic mechanisms.

• Tropes and figures, as discreet formal entities, can be likened to texts.

• Anthropomorphized abstractions who enjoy the power of human speech entail the formal engagement of prosopopeia.

• While it certainly recognizes formal complexity in the past, it tends to treat its presence there as anomalous or illicit.

• Such passing back and forth between the formal and actual is precisely what formalism cannot allow.