Sentence examples for A mere formality from inspiring English sources

This step is a mere formality.

"The election is a mere formality".

The second round was a mere formality.

Confirmation of any Trump nominee should be a mere formality.

The presence of the Russian foreign minister at the closing ceremony was a mere formality.

The court date was a mere formality — a request for a postponement.

The flight "competition," according to the military historian Phillip Meilinger, was regarded as a mere formality.

It took two rounds of votes, in the end, but it was a mere formality.

In China, it is a mere formality ordered from the top.

Yet contract extensions have long been a mere formality for Hanson and the Lions.

Faces lengthen ReprintsThe parliamentary vote to approve a humanitarian force seemed, at first, a mere formality.